The London NLP Conference is a great way to get a taste for what learning NLP can do and to try out the top NLP Trainers in the world. This will help you to see who has a style that works for you or an area of specialism that interests you. Karen & John have presented at the conference for the last six years. You can find out more from
Learn models and concepts to help with strategy (life or business).
As with any powerful process though, it can be used in a negative way and sadly there are some people out there teaching NLP to help you pick up women, get your own way and walk al over other people. No reputable NLP Trainer would ever teach these skills with a harmful intention, one of the presuppositions of NLP is to respect other people. So where people are not using their skills for good it is either because they had a harmful intention in learning it in the first place or they were poorly trained.
At 14 I got my first weekend job as a coffee boy at what was then a very fancy restaurant in my village. I remember arriving for my interview in an ill fitting jacket shirt and incongruent tie. I was very shy and this job really helped me overcome some of that. This job gave me my love of food and was where I first learned to cook - cooking steak diane stroganoff and the like for guests at their table. I also did a stint as the wine waiter which was fun. French wine was it then!
Karen! Apart from her, Mike who helped me see the benefit in taking time to gather and consider data, how to present it back to others in a way that they could understand and process. He was calm, thought long term and did not get involved in the day to day dramas and gossip of the office. He taught me patience, strategic thinking and how to conduct myself and maintain my dignity when others were shouting and trying to point score.
Before Monkey Puzzle I spent over 20 years in a variety of senior finance leadership roles including a Group FD role in Industry and a Partner for a Scottish Professional CA Practice. In addition to being CA qualified, I’m an INLPTA certified NLP Master Trainer, a Master Practitioner of NLP, a Principal Practitioner Member of the Association for Business Psychology, a Therapist and a Clinical Hypnotherapist.