Ian McDermott is a global leading authority on NLP Coaching, for over 20 years he has established the growth of NLP around the world.

Executive Coaching

McDermott and an elite group of specialists through ITS Executive Coaching have personally trained key senior organisational players in many FTSE and Fortune 500 companies.

McDermott's work is featured in the Open University

Open University

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’s MBA course 'Creativity, Innovation and Change').
Named one of Britain's Top 10 Coaches and described as “the Coaches’ Coach” (The Independent

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McDermott is also a UKCP registered psychotherapist.

Author

McDermott is the co-author of some of the most prolific books in the field, including, Way of NLP; Practical NLP for Managers; NLP and Health; The Art of Systems Thinking; NLP and the New Manager; Manage Yourself, Manage Your Life; Brief NLP Therapy; The NLP Coach; Your Inner Coach and The Coaching Bible. His books have been translated into 15 languages. He is a longstanding member of the Society of Authors

Society of Authors

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His latest book 'How to Build Your Confidence with NLP' was released 8th October 2010.

Training

Each year he trains people on the ITS NLP Practitioner Certification programmes, as well as the ITS NLP Master Practitioner Certification and the ICF recognised NLP European Coaching Certification Training.
Ian hosts a number of Evening Seminars throughout the year and experiential one day events known as Essential Workshops.

Guest Trainers

As founder of International Teaching Seminars, Ian invites a number guest Trainers, some of whom are close friends, to provide excellent tuition in NLP and Coaching throughout the year.
Tim Hallbom, Suzi Smith, Elfline and Robert Dilts are amongst the regular contributors to ITS and their excellent programmes.

Henley Business School and Reading University

In an unprecedented move in 2008 Ian McDermott and International Teaching Seminars collaborated with Henley Business School.
The ITS NLP Practitioner Programme - and only the ITS Practitioner Programme - is now part of Henley's core curriculum for its new MSc. in Coaching and Behavioural Change.
In a unique partnership, Henley Business School at the University of Reading , has elected to incorporate the ITS NLP Practitioner programme taken by Ian McDermott - together with additional Henley input and assessment - into Stage One of its MSc. in Coaching and Behavioural Change.

Personal Bio

Ian McDermott was born in London

London

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, he is happily married to an American and spends part of the year in the US.

He had originally planned to become a Buddhist monk in Thailand

Thailand

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 but after teaching in Higher Education

Higher education

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 he became a psychotherapist.
He studied NLP

NLP

- Artificial intelligence :* Natural language processing, a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages- Medicine and biology :...

 in the US, brought it back to the UK and became a forefront pioneer in the industry.
For over twenty years he has enjoyed being a coach and a successful entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

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External links

• International Teaching Seminars

http://www.henley.reading.ac.uk/executiveeducation/HenleyCoachingServices/cl-Neuro-Linguistic_Programming-Practitioner-Certificate.aspx