NLP TRAINER, AUTHOR
Joseph O'Connor
British NLP trainer and author of Introducing NLP, the most-recommended first NLP textbook.
PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTION
NLP pedagogy; the most widely-used introductory NLP textbook; NLP coaching curriculum design.
Joseph O'Connor is a British NLP trainer who has done as much as anyone to translate the founders' technical work into something readable. His Introducing NLP (1990), co-authored with John Seymour, is the most-recommended first NLP textbook and has sold in volumes that no other NLP book has matched.
O'Connor's later work extended NLP into coaching specifically, with NLP Coaching (2007, with Andrea Lages) becoming a standard reference for working NLP coaches. He has trained widely in Europe and South America and is regarded as one of the field's most rigorous and humane teachers.
Key works
- 1990
Introducing NLP
With John Seymour - the standard introduction
- 2004
Coaching with NLP
- 2001
NLP Workbook
- 1998
Leading with NLP
LEGACY
Introducing NLP remains the single most-recommended starting point for NLP study. O'Connor's pedagogical clarity shaped how a generation of practitioners first encountered the field.