The people who built it.

Co-founder of NLP. Modeled Perls, Satir, and Erickson with John Grinder; co-authored the foundational NLP texts.

Co-founder of NLP. Linguist who brought transformational grammar to Bandler's modeling project, producing the meta model.

American psychiatrist and the 20th century's most influential clinical hypnotherapist. The original exemplar for the Milton model.

Pioneering family therapist whose communication patterns became central to NLP's reframing and rapport work.

German-American psychiatrist and founder of Gestalt therapy. His confrontational therapeutic style was one of NLP's original models.

Second-generation NLP developer. Created the neurological levels and much of NLP's belief-change work.

American NLP trainer and founder of Time Line Therapy. Built one of NLP's largest commercial training operations.

American performance coach who brought NLP techniques to mass audiences via books, seminars, and large-scale events.

British NLP master trainer who built one of the UK's largest NLP training and coaching practices.

British NLP trainer and author of Introducing NLP, the most-recommended first NLP textbook.

British NLP trainer who founded International Teaching Seminars and helped establish NLP coaching as a professional practice in the UK.

British NLP master trainer and author of NLP at Work, the standard reference for NLP in business contexts.