Nicole Schneider, LL.M. (Founder/Sr.Trainer)

Official Biography

Nicole had her first introduction to NLP at the age of 14, when she found out she was mislabeled for many years as being dyslexic and having an attention deficit. It turned out she wasn't a disabled learner at all, she had disabled teachers, a fast learner stuck in a slow education system. Her mother (insisting her daughter was very clever), and Quantum Learning with NLP based techniques changed her academic life forever!

For professional reasons, she started learning and soon after teaching NLP and advanced communication skills in the early 1990s.  As a law student at the University of Amsterdam she wanted to understand the ins and outs of persuasive verbal –and non-verbal language, precision questioning, and tool sets to be more effective in the legal and business world.

While studying as a foreign exchange student at the University of Minnesota, Nicole was accepted in to a program to teach American youth about The Netherlands and US-European intercultural communications.  She noticed by using her NLP and advanced communication tools she was able to be a more effective teacher, inspire and affect change!  As her classes were gaining popularity she was invited to coach children, college students, and expatriates to prepare for their move to The Netherlands, with an agency specializing in this area.  This is when Nicole discovered the true magic behind her skills, and her passion for teaching and coaching. Next to finishing up her law degree, she enrolled in to graduate programs in Educational Psychology, and Speech & Communication.

After her return to the Netherlands, Nicole continued to coach foreign students, expatriates and international business professionals. After obtaining her Masters degree, she decided not to practice law and continue to follow her heart and passion. She decided to work on a freelance project basis for large corporations and fortune 500 companies as a trainer, coach, and project manager of educational software/IT projects.  The project-based work was ideal for Nicole, an adventurer at heart, in between assignments she was able to backpack around the world and take additional training.

Nicole, has an insatiable zest for learning, and was fortunate to learn from leading experts around the world in multiple disciplines among them the famous MBTI® (Myers Type Indicator® Briggs Personality Typing Psychology), behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology, truth detection and body language reading.

Right at a point in her life where she was tired of travelling all corners of the globe, she was made an offer by a corporate IT company which at the time she felt was “a great new opportunity, and an offer she could not refuse.”  She was responsible for the strategic management of global multi-million dollar programs. She continued on a part-time basis, training and coaching business professionals internationally in the company she worked for, as well as private practice. Her years in a high profile position in the corporate world resulted in a life full of stress, poor eating habits, and lack of sleep for several years. She collapsed and was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue, while being more than 90 pounds overweight.

She decided she needed to practice, what she preached! She committed to her recovery, and went on a discovery path as to how to cure herself. She enrolled in to a masters degree program in psychology, took additional training to perfect her NLP skills on the therapeutic side and taking NLP beyond a business and coaching application.  She travelled around 2 continents to train with several schools including Richard Bandler (co-creator of NLP), and Paul McKenna (celebrity life coach.) She set out to go back full time into the training and coaching profession using her international business network.  Over the years, she specialized in working with phobias, negative childhood memories, burnout, chronic fatigue, weight loss and teaching NLP to aspiring life coaches.

Nicole met Stephan Cocks, at a seminar and they decided to team train together a few times “for fun!” What originally was supposed to be an experiment, resulted in the creation of an adventure called Global NLP Training. Nicole wanted to build her dream company, where her passion for personal change could be shared with others. The company had to rest on a foundation of personal values, and for it to function as a pebble in a world wide pond of positive change. And since it was going to be her company, she wanted to organize the trainings in the center of Amsterdam, and beach locations in the USA. Locations she used to go to only on vacation.

In spring of 2008 Nicole’s talents were discovered by Cristi Williams, celebrity life coach and owner of “Shading the Limelight” coaching agency with offices in Nashville and Los Angeles. Cristi did not hesitate to bring on Nicole as an entertainment life coach.  She is responsible for training and coaching celebrity coaches, and working with clients in the entertainment business.

In 2009 Stephan Cocks received an offer to work with NLP in counter intelligence. Global NLP Training luckily already had a few assistant trainers on board at this moment in time. Nicole invited Scott Gallimore, aside from an experienced coach and trainer, a wonderful human being. With Scott, fresh energy, and new passion had arrived! This has resulted in a magnificent new friendship, synergy, wonderful program changes, and a new "Team Global!" Nicole feels extremely fortunate to be working with one of her closest friends, an extremely talented NLP Trainer, a terrific father and a man whom is truly "magnificent." A rule of thumb for Nicole in business or taking on projects is that they have to be fun! And Scott is definitely a lot of fun. It is important to laugh a lot (and loud) when in a demanding job, running an extremely busy company working across time zones and frequent travel away from home.

Nicole lost the excess weight, considers herself cured from Chronic Fatigue, and is in the best shape of her life! She hit her 100 pound weight loss goal in November 2010! And is currently in training to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in 2013.