NLP TRAINER, FOUNDER OF ITS TRAINING
Ian McDermott
British NLP trainer who founded International Teaching Seminars and helped establish NLP coaching as a professional practice in the UK.
PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTION
Professional NLP training in the UK; NLP applied to coaching, healthcare, and organizational change.
Ian McDermott founded International Teaching Seminars (ITS) in 1988 and has trained NLP Practitioners and Master Practitioners in the UK for over three decades. ITS pioneered the professional adoption of NLP in coaching and was an early proponent of integrating NLP with systemic and organisational work.
McDermott has written widely-read books on NLP, including The NLP Coach (with Wendy Jago, 2001) and Way of NLP (with Joseph O'Connor, 2001). His work emphasises NLP as part of a broader change-work toolkit rather than a self-contained methodology.
Key works
- 2001
Way of NLP
With Joseph O'Connor
- 2001
The NLP Coach
With Wendy Jago
- 1996
Practical NLP for Managers
- 2003
Your Inner Coach
LEGACY
Helped establish NLP coaching as a professional discipline in the UK. ITS Training is one of Europe's longest-running NLP schools.