I would like to express my gratitude to Nikolai Petyaev for his author course “Structural Typology of Personality in the Language of MBTI”, in which I had the opportunity to participate.

My entire career and professional activity have always been connected with working with people. At different stages, the intensity of communication varied, but year after year it steadily increased. Today I lead a fairly large IT company, and I can confidently say that the theoretical foundation and practical skills kindly shared by Nikolai are unique in their kind. They make it possible to make decisions in working with personnel and partners not based on “intuition,” but using a system of knowledge that increases the accuracy of long-term forecasts in interaction and cooperation.

The course is not easy; full engagement is required to achieve results. The knowledge is integrated gradually and logically. Even in my case — as someone who is completely distant from psychology and philosophy, since my background is in software engineering — the material becomes structured and comprehensible over time.

As a side effect, which to some extent even outweighed the initial goals, there was a “rediscovery” of myself, and of the mechanisms and centripetal forces that act on me as a personality in communication.

I highly recommend Nikolai as a teacher and mentor to anyone who wants to develop managerial skills and gain a solid theoretical foundation for building long-term and productive relationships with people in business and beyond.