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                                  BRIAN VAN DER HORST

                                             93 Ave. du General de Gaulle, 78600 Maisons-Laffitte, France

Phone: 01.74.13.10.06  Portable: 06.80.20.47.10

e-mail: brianvdh@gmail.com  website: www.bvdh.com

General Background: Thirty years experience in management consulting, marketing and journalism. Twenty years as trainer, consultant and coach. Author of more than 1000 articles and three books. Innovator and developer of new educational products and business techniques. Since 2008, independent coach, writer, and psychotherapist in private practice

International Management, Consulting and Training:

BVDH COGNITIVE SERVICES

Paris, France

Director,  

2007 to Present                                  

DIRIGEANTS ET PARTENAIRES

Paris, France

INTEGRAL INSTITUTE

Boulder, Colorado

REPERE, S.A.

Paris, France

Associate Director, Coaching & Training

2005 to 2007

European Chief Facilitator

2001 to 2004

Director, Training and Consulting Services

1984 to 2003

THE NLP CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES

San Francisco, CA

President and Director, Training and Therapeutic Services

1981 to 1990

THE SOCIETY OF NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING

Santa Cruz, CA

Creative Consultant

1981

SRI INTERNATIONAL

Strategic Environment Center

Menlo Park, CA

Creative Consultant, Future Studies & Values and Lifestyles Programs

1980-1981

YOUNG & RUBICAM WEST

San Francisco, CA

Creative Consultant

1979-1980

CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES

San Anselmo, CA

Creative Consultant, Dalai Lama Project

1979

Academic Posts:

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Paris, France

INSTITUT D'ADMINISTRATION DES ENTERPRISES

Aix-en-Provence, France

Chargé des Cours, Intercultural Management for MBA program

1997-2002

Chargé des Cours, Intercultura Communication

1993-1997

UNIVERSITY OF PARIS

Paris, France

Guest Lecturer

1988-1993

UNIVERSITE APPLE FRANCE

Paris, France

Founding Faculty

1987

SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY

Rohnert Park, CA

Instructor, Extended Education

1980

JOHN F. KENNEDY UNIVERSITY

Orinda, CA

Adjunct Faculty, Instructor

1979

Marketing:

ATLANTIC RECORDING CORP.

New York, NY

Director of Advertising and Public Relations

November 1971 to April 1973

THE CANNON GROUP, INC.

New York, NY

Vice President, Advertising and Publicity

February 1970 to November 1971

20TH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORP.

New York, NY.

National Publicity Coordinator

October 1967 to February 1970

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER, INC.

New York, NY

Publicist

February 1966 to October 1967

LOEW'S THEATRES

New York, NY

Intown Director of Promotion

February 1965 to February 1966

Editorial / Journalism:

NLP WORLD

Orzens, Switzerland

ANCHOR POINT

Salt Lake City, UT

INTELLIGENCE

New York, NY

NEW REALITIES MAGAZINE

San Francisco, CA

BRAIN/MIND BULLETIN

Los Angeles, CA

J.P. TARCHER / HOUGHTON MIFFLIN

Los Angeles, CA

VIACOM CABLE SIX TV

San Francisco, CA

NEW AGE MAGAZINE

Brookline Village, MA

PLAYBOY MAGAZINE

Chicago, IL

THE VILLAGE VOICE

New York, NY

FREELANCE JOURNALIST

1967 to 1979

Advisory Board Member, Contributor

March 1994 to present

Columnist, Contributor

July 1992 to present

Paris Editor

February 1984 to present

Contributing Editor

February 1979 to January 1983

Contributing Editor

February 1980 to January 1982

Northern California Editor

April 1979 to January 1982

Talk Show Host

June 1979 to June 1982

Columnist

February 1979 to March 1981

Columnist

January 1975 to November 1977

Staff Writer / Columnist

January 1974 to August 1977

Books Published:

Have published three books: The Outcome Strategy (2006),   Folk Music in America (1972) , and Rock Music (1973). Have contributed chapters published in Kundalini, Evolution and Enlightenment (1979), The Omni Book of the Paranormal & The Mind (1983), and Through the Gateway of the Heart (1985).

Areas of Special interest:

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: Have attended state of the art courses at the Intercultural Communication Institute, Portland, OR, in 1989. Member of SEITAR, and other organizations such as the American Counseling Association, the North American Association for NLP, and the Association for NLP in England. Was founding member of the French Association for NLP, and have lectured and written widely on intercultural communication issues and interventions. Have served as trainer for health and business professionals in France, England, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Russia, and Indonesia in addition to the US and Canada.

PSYCHOLOGY: My training in neuro-linguistic programming have included apprenticeships with Leslie Cameron-Bandler and Lynne Conwell, with emphasis on advanced training in meta programming and hypnosis; and a partnership with John Grinder oriented toward creating new models of NLP training. Professional memberships have included Association for Humanistic Psychology, Association for Transpersonal Psychology, Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Founding fellow of the French Association for NLP. Fellow of International Association for NLP.

THE ARTS: Play several instruments, have lectured at colleges on ethnomusicology, have thorough working knowledge of stage, television, film and music production.

COGNITIVE SCIENCES, NEURO-BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE: As North Carolina Science Talent Search and Westinghouse Science Talent Search winner, I worked as a researcher in marine biology for Haskins Laboratories in New York; subsequently publishing in the Annals of the American Littoral Society. Have reported on a wide range of scientific topics including neuro-computing, psycho-neuro-immunology, and medicine.

Personal Data:

Languages fluent: English and French

Studied: Italian, German and Russian

Education: Duke University

Major: English

Minor: Science

New School for Social Research

Major: English

References: Furnished on request; see listing in Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in America, and in the references section.

Who's Who:

• Who's Who in America 2007 listing for Brian Van Der Horst. Here

• Who's Who in the World 1999 listing for Brian Van Der Horst. Originally published in 1989. Here

Standford Research Institute 

• First publication of concept of the organization as a learning system. Cover Image

Apple University 

• Founding Professor of Apple University, France, 1987. Cover Image Article