Julian is an executive coach working with global organizations on 3 continents helping people increase their emotional intelligence and their leadership ability. He is founder of the Life Talent Program, a personal development accelerator for people who want to fulfill their potential in their personal and professional lives. He runs personal transformation retreats in the UK, Spain, Greece, and China. He has been on his own path of personal exploration for 40 years and leading others on theirs since the 1980s. He became an NLP trainer and helped to introduce NLP into the UK in the 1980s, helping to establish NLP communications skills as part of the management development curriculum. He is a co-author, with Robert Dilts and Anne Deering, of the book Alpha Leadership – Tools for Business Leaders Who Want More Out of Life (Wiley and Co, 2002) and also co-author, with Cynthia Indriso, of The Business Leader as an Incurable Deviant, and in Stephen Gilligan’s Walking in Two Worlds: The Relational Self in Theory and Practice (Zeig, Tucker & Thiessen, 2004). He introduced NLP communication skills into the business world in the 1980s and was one of the first executive coaches in the UK in 1992. He has run coaching master classes for the Academy of Executive Coaching and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). He is also a former trustee of Re-Vision, a Psychosynthesis training charity, and a former board member of the UK Association for NLP (ANLP). He is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, holds a 2nd dan black-belt in Aikido, practices yoga and Five Rhythms dance and is a long-term close student of a Buddhist Master.