Nicole Schneider

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 but to 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, because 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), Feldenkrais (body, movement, awareness), behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology, positive psychology, non-violent communication, emotional intelligence, truth detection and body language reading.

Right at a point in her life where she was tired of traveling 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 to be 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 a masters degree program in Psychology, took additional training to perfect her NLP skills on the therapeutic side and also 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.

What originally was supposed to be an experiment, resulted in the creation of an adventure called Global NLP Training in 2006. 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 function as a pebble in a worldwide pond of positive change.

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 hire Nicole as an entertainment life coach. She is responsible for training and coaching celebrity coaches, and working with clients in the entertainment business.

Nicole’s training and coaching and training company took flight internationally and clients started to include top athletes, motivational speakers and executives from many major fortune 500 companies. Global NLP Training became the company of choice for the United Nations, The Pentagon, the Dutch government, and corporate organizations around the world. Approximately 50% of the participants in class are individuals who seek training for their private coaching/therapy practice, various small business or individuals seeking a life changing experience whilst improving their work skills. Nicole joined the speaker circuit speaking to audiences in large corporations, non-profits, and even the International Criminal Court.

Over the years, Nicole has built an extremely strong team of trainers worldwide who provide each training under her leadership, and a program that continues to develop even today. Now Global NLP Training operates in Europe, Asia, North America, South and Latin America. Nicole kicked off an impressive roadmap in 2012 for the post-course support to be unparalleled in the industry, including videos, audios, and answering post-course questions via video and a smartphone app.

Nicole had her first brush with the Feldenkrais Method (a somatic method which is described by her as NLP for the body) in 2010. In 2016 she commenced in starting her Feldenkrais teacher training to specialize in human movement in relation to conscious and unconscious awareness. This beautifully integrates with, and is inherently part of, a larger mind-body whole with NLP. Nicole was hired by Larry Goldfarb, one of the top Feldenkrais teacher trainers in the world, to teach NLP inside his Amsterdam teacher training.

In 2013 the foundation was put in place, as originally was envisioned during the start of Global NLP Training, to switch to a Social-Edupreneurship based company aiding underprivileged children. Global NLP Training travels the globe to teach teachers, and has also started to work closely with the Mentor Microbank Foundation which offers training to new business owners in the developing world as well as Sjakitarius, the school of mentally disabled children on Bali. The mechanics behind her new business model was put down in "Social Coach-Preneurship - How to Gain Coaching Clients Through Social Entrepreneurship", a book and online training she has made available free of charge to the coaching community in the hopes of creating lasting change in the world and helping the coaching community gain clients.

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!