Michael Carroll is the only NLP Master Trainer in the world certified by NLP co-creator John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair. He is the Founder and Course Director of the NLP Academy. Michael creates a collaborative learning environment where the interplay of conscious and unconscious learning processes fully harness the potential of each learner on a course.

Michael Carroll is a fascinating character, who makes an impact on all those he meets, and has certainly made an impact on the field of NLP. When he entered the field, Michael found the general quality of NLP and the depth of learning experiences available disappointing. As part of his mission to reset the standard, he sought out John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair and has worked closely with them ever since.

As a young man of 22 with little experience but bucket loads of ambition, he joined a financial services business. In his first month he was the top salesman in the company. After four years he bought the company, turning it into a profitable business throughout the early 1990s recession.

Michael stumbled across NLP at a motivational seminar and instantly wanted to learn more and read every book he could on the subject. (Michael can read a book in an hour). He took a Practitioner course in 1995 in the UK, and on the last day of the course set up his new business as a hobby and hired the NLP trainer to work for him for a short period of time.

In 1996, Michael Carroll next step was Master Practitioner and the Trainers Training in California. As a newly certified trainer when Michael calibrated his own skill level to be greater than the trainer he previously hired, Michael launched himself as Trainer in his own right and raised his game to work with the very best in the world.

By 1998 Michael Carroll name was emerging on the NLP scene as someone who wants to push the boat and make changes. He attended a John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair seminar in the UK. Michael bonded very quickly with John and Carmen and developed a strong friendship with this amazing couple. John and Carmen requested Michael join them in their http://www.nlpwhisperinginthewind.com project in 2001.

Such was the relationship between Michael, John and Carmen, that the NLP Academy became the natural choice for hosting John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair seminars. John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair and Michael Carroll make an exciting and diverse team. Together they totally redesigned NLP Trainers Training simultaneously raising the standards to a new level of excellence. Michael Carroll achievement in working directly with the co-creator of NLP stands alone as one of the highest achievements of any UK NLP Trainer.

Michael developed the first ever full Multi Media on-line learning tool in 1999 called the Sales Enhancement Series. This series was originally developed for a worldwide telecommunications company to load on to their on-line multi media learning programme. The Sales Enhancement Series was made available to over 10,000 users worldwide.

This was the first time people could experience NLP on their computer screen in video format with supporting slides and transcript. The technology quickly developed and Michael spotted a window of opportunity. He formed an alliance with a specialist multi media and training company and developed the NLPedia series for NLP accelerated learning.

Michael is a continual researcher into accelerated learning principles. He loves to learn how people learn and create ways to enhance learning opportunities. Michael Carroll was the first NLP Trainer from Europe to be personally licensed by Paul Scheele to teach PhotoReading and he was one of the pioneer PhotoReading Instructors in bringing PhotoReading seminars to the UK. Michael runs more PhotoReading seminars than any other Trainer in the UK and has been delivering them on a continual basis for longer than anyone else.

Throughout his NLP career Michael has adapted and updated many NLP patterns making them more efficient and easy to use. Michael is also the creator of several NLP processes. A significant contribution to the field is Michael Carroll’s work in developing TimeLine Re-Patterning. Prior to Michaels updates most of the TimeLine models were content models breaching the core ethics of NLP.

Michael Carroll’s work schedule is exciting and varied. As well as continually developing and researching, Michael leads the NLP Academy certification trainings, designs and delivers specialist corporate courses, teaches accelerating learning courses and PhotoReading. He also coaches and trains presentation skills and gives keynote conference speeches.

John Grinder is the co-originator of NLP and one of the greatest thinkers of our lifetime. He has authored 14 books on complex subjects ranging from transformational grammar, family therapy and his creation of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

NLP belongs to John Grinder, maybe not in the literal sense. If you studied the patterns of NLP which were originally developed in the 70’s you will recognize the wisdom of John Grinder flows throughout the early work. Johnâ’s work is documented in well over 1000 other educational books on subject matter ranging from specialist NLP matters, psychology, sales, negotiation, management, parenting and accelerated learning.

John Grinder has devoted his life’s work towards his quest to uncover and present human patterns of excellence, modelled from geniuses in different fields. He created Neuro-Linguistic Programming with Richard Bandler, as a means to investigate and replicate extreme human excellence.

Carmen Bostic St Clair is the CEO and founder of Quantum Leap, the company Carmen and John conduct their corporate work through (http://www.quantum-leap.com). Carmen has held senior political research posts in government administration. (The White House Committee of the Development of Small Business) and Business Advisory Council representative from California.

Carmen began her professional life as a school teacher, where through her natural gift of creating powerful participatory learning contexts, she won the National Teacher of the Year Award in the USA.

Carmen is an expert in cultural change, corporate excellence, team formation, leadership models and learning. She is an amazing and gifted woman who oozes charisma, who delights and provokes people, sometimes simultaneously, to instigate change at a deep level. Such is Carmen’s skill she can initiate unconscious change in large teams, a skill very few people possess.

World leaders and the highest ranking corporate executives receive their most advanced training from John and Carmen. When the world’s top government and corporate organisations have a seemingly untenable problem they call upon the wisdom of Grinder and Bostic St Clair to save the day. Organisations such as NASA and the most successful of the US Fortune 500 rely on the duo’s expertise to keep them ahead in their field.

Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D., is a licensed Psychologist practicing in Encinitas, CA. Stephen was among the group of students that gathered around the founders of NLP during its formation at U.C. Santa Cruz from 1974 -1977.

Milton Erickson and Gregory Bateson became his teachers and mentors. After receiving his doctorate in Psychology from Stanford University, Stephen became one of the premier teachers and practitioners of Ericksonian hypnotherapy.

Motivated by his experiences as a therapist, a teacher, and by his own quest, he developed a new practice of radical awakening incorporating Ericksonian psychotherapy, Aikido, Buddhism, meditation, and the performance arts.