About Nicole Schneider

I’m the Founder and Architect of Global NLP Training (est. 2006), and I’ve taught over 2,500 students from more than 125 countries in small, immersive seminars around the world to use NLP, Positive Psychology, Emotional Intelligence, and neuroscience to change the way they think, feel, believe, behave, work, and communicate.

Along the way, Global NLP Training quietly earned a reputation as one of the top tier international schools for deep, transformational learning the kind where the work goes beyond the techniques and touches real lives across cultures and borders, in classrooms from Bali to Amsterdam to Los Angeles.

Over the years, I’ve worked with Fortune 100 executives, world renowned coaches and motivational speakers, top athletes, award winning entertainers and everyday humans who simply want to live (or lead) with more power and meaning, or love their families better.

I’ve had the honor of training UN negotiators, leaders inside global nonprofits, prima ballerinas, Academy Award nominees, BAFTA and Grammy winners and I was chosen as the NLP trainer of choice for therapists working with PTSD across military communities.

I’ve also been invited to deliver keynotes and workshops for C suite professionals, and to speak in front of the United Nations and the lawyers of the International Criminal Court moments that reminded me that real change doesn’t always start with loud declarations, but with quiet courage.

But beyond training venues and bright lights, my heart has always stayed closer to the ground in social entrepreneurship: partnering with marginalized individuals in the communities where I teach, organizations like the Sjakitarius School for neurodivergent children in Bali, and CNN Hero Ibu Robin Lim’s Bumi Sehat Foundation bringing free NLP education to midwives, doctors, and community leaders serving families at the edges of the world.

Global NLP Training is the only female founded and female led school among the top 50 worldwide a quiet rebellion against the female unfriendly environments where I was trained.

I don’t call myself a feminist at heart, but I’m proud we’ve built spaces where women and men thrive without having to armor up.

And I managed to do it without throwing a chair, which honestly feels like growth.

Before all of this, I trained as an international and human rights lawyer in both The Netherlands and the United States. In the late 1990s when coaching was still seen as an odd little offshoot of consulting I found my way into it.

Despite being a solo female world traveler at 15, I wasn’t bold enough (yet) to leap into the unconventional path of entrepreneurship. That made it easy to recruit me into corporate leadership at the dawn of the tech era. I was good at it. Great, even. And I had the paycheck to prove it.

But as I climbed the corporate ladder, I drifted further and further from the person I was always proud to be the one who walks in to lend a hand when everyone else walks out. Because people get messy sometimes. They need grace. Or they simply need help moving from stuckness into motion.

Then life did what life sometimes does.
It dropped me to the bathroom floor.

Diagnosed with chronic fatigue and declared disabled for life, I spent three years rebuilding my health breath by stubborn, sometimes excruciating breath. (Not exactly the comeback montage Hollywood promised. But it was mine.)

I used the very tools I now teach to stitch my life back together not perfectly, but fiercely.