NLP Coaching: An Evidence-Based Approach for Coaches, Leaders and Individuals
- What exactly is NLP coaching?
- What practices does it share with other approaches and which are distinct to NLP?
- Is it a valid methodology?
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is believed by many to be a powerful set of tools for facilitating change and enhancing performance. Yet, despite the success stories and proliferation of courses, there is still much skepticism about the validity and effectiveness of NLP. In NLP Coaching Susie Linder-Pelz brings, for the first time, an evidence-based perspective to this coaching methodology. She explains how and where NLP coaching is used, examines its links to established principles and practices, and questions aspects of NLP where the empirical evidence is missing. She reviews recent developments in NLP-based coaching practice and proposes a specific research agenda that will move NLP coaching towards an evidence-based approach. NLP Coaching provides numerous case studies and real-life examples which show how NLP assists personal, professional, team, leadership and organisational development. The book includes contributions from leaders in the field: Andrew Bryant, Michelle Duval, Joseph O'Connor, Paul Tosey and Lisa Wake, with a forward by Dr Angus McLeod.
"Bravo, Dr. Susie Linder Pelz, on the publication of your latest book. You reveal such mastery of both your subject and the art of writing. I feel your authorial voice firmly at the helm: guiding, leading into, proposing, reflecting and integrating sources. From the opening passages of your book, you offer the reader an open and inquiring space to journey with you as you explore, discuss and raise questions about the field of NLP: its origins, development, similiarities and differences to other coaching approaches, and its linkages to related fields of psychology, neurobiology, neurolinguistics. Through your engaged writing, inclusion of other voices from the field, use of endnotes and references, you have provided a rich reference resource . You provide a remarkably impressive field of knowledge, as well as summarise and clarify critical issues within the field that can serve as a clarion call for further investigation and research. You offer practical tools for coaches, for coaching trainers, for practioners and researchers to access information sources and, to incorporate within professional and personal practice, strategies and processes for self-discernment, balance, self-reflection and critical evaluation. I found it to be a tour-de-force and it will retain a well-prized position on my bookshelf. I imagine it will become an essential resource for anyone interested in the coaching world; its current publication serves as a well-earned and timely statement of the richness and maturity of the NLP field." Susannah Benson PhD
Susie’s first career was as a researcher and lecturer in behavioural science and health. After completing a BA in sociology and a master's degree in public health she won scholarships from both Rotary International and the World Health Organisation. She graduated from Columbia University in New York with an M.Phil. and a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences. Her doctoral dissertation addressed both theoretical and methodological issues of researching client satisfaction with health services. She researched and lectured at the University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, the Technion and the Hebrew University and was principal researcher on various health research projects.
In 1989 Susie began a second career, establishing a health promotion consultancy, Midlife Moves™ and later the career coaching business, Good Decisions P/L. She developed her coaching skills through becoming an MBTI ® practitioner, a Master Practitioner of NLP, Practitioner of Neuro-Semantics and a Certified Associate Meta-Coach with the Meta-Coach Foundation.
During her first career Susie wrote 18 articles for refereed academic journals and 15 commissioned research reports; she also co-authored the best-selling textbook Health Care Issues (Allen & Unwin 1987, 1990). Since becoming a career coach her Good Decisions™ career success strategy has been written about in numerous publications including articles for business and professional publications as well as the books Well Over Fifty: A Guide to Health Care and Services for Australians Growing Older; Midlife Moves: Taking Charge of Your Future, and "From Fear to Courage: Managing Career Crises".
Susie has addressed conferences in the USA, Singapore and Australia; delivered career and life management programs to government departments, insurance and investment advisory firms, private sector employees, and universities; talked on radio and TV; and addressed business and professional groups. She is a member of the the Career Development Association of Australia, the Australian Human Resources Institute, the Meta-Coach Foundation and is a Professional Affiliate of the Australian Psychological Society.
