ITS

Ian McDermott

Courses With ITS:

NLP Practitioner Certification Programme


NLP Master Practitioner Certification Programme


European NLP Coaching Certification Programme


Workshops

Ian McDermott is unique. He is the man who brought NLP and Coaching together. As the world’s foremost authority on NLP Coaching, he is the best selling author of The NLP Coach and the author of the NLP Coaching chapter in the industry standard manual – Excellence in Coaching.

For over twenty years Ian McDermott has pioneered the growth of NLP in Britain and Europe. Ian’s pioneering work and highly popular style have made him a regular contributor to the media. His extraordinary contributions to the field resulted in him being made an International NLP Diplomate.


Ian is the Founder of International Teaching Seminars (ITS) which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2008. ITS is a world leader in delivering NLP training and coaching and the primary resource for over 100 of the top companies in the UK and Europe, clients include: BP, BMW, Cancer Research, Canon, Cisco, Ernst&Young, Emap, GlaxoSmithKline, General Medical Council, HM Treasury, IBM, Lloyds, HSBC, Hewlett Packard, John Lewis Partnership, Metropolitan Police, Microsoft, Nestle, NHS, Orange, Ordinance Survey, PWC, RBS, Royal College of Nursing, Shell, Unilever, Vodafone, Waitrose.

A visionary entrepreneurial leader Ian spends much of his time coaching and training the next generation of executives, coaches and NLP Graduates. Right now, throughout the UK, across Europe and around the world, there are thousands of Ian’s graduates making change possible where it is needed. The training they have received is uniquely practical and gives them the tools to go into business themselves if they wish.

Ian has personally trained an elite group of specialist coaches enabling ITS Executive Coaching to work with key senior organisational players in many FTSE and Fortune 500 companies. Their focus is on strategic issues, creativity and innovation. (Ian’s work is featured in the Open University’s MBA course ‘Creativity, Innovation and Change’)

Named one of Britain’s Top 10 Coaches and described as ‘the Coaches’ Coach’ by the Independent newspaper, Ian is also a UKCP registered psychotherapist and a prolific author. A longstanding member of the Society of Authors he is the co-author of some of the most widely read and respected 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.

Ian is committed to making his expertise as widely available as possible. To this end, each year he leads the ITS NLP Practitioner Certification programmes, as well as the ITS NLP Master Practitioner Certification and the ICF recognised NLP European Coaching Certification Programme. You can also meet Ian personally at one of the occasional ITS Open Evenings that he hosts in London.

On a more personal note

Ian McDermott was born in London, married an American and is equally at home in the UK and the US. He and Paulette have two sons, Matthew and Christian who he says “definitely keep us current!” Early in life he had plans to enter a Buddhist monastery in Thailand. Instead he briefly became the manager of a dry cleaning shop! (Ian says, “It’s a long story!”).After teaching in Higher Education he became a psychotherapist, studied NLP in the US, made it his own and brought it back to the UK. He has been a coach and a successful entrepreneur for over twenty years.

Deeply committed to us and to NLP – a brilliant communicator.

Phil Swallow

He is a true Master Trainer… he possesses the capacity of which he speaks.

Renato Marcuzzi, Professor of Engineering

Superb material. Direct, powerful, amusing.

Lawrence Heylen – Managing Director

Master in his field.

Suzanne Coldwell – Therapist