CV-Resumé

                                  BRIAN VAN DER HORST

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

• • Through co-founding Repère, S.A., was first American living in France to bring the communications technique of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to Europe. Today more than 330 French companies teach NLP.

  • Conceived, designed and taught 24-day Practitioner and Master Practitioner Programs in French for more than 6600 students.

  • Designed and taught Coaching Certification program.

  • Coached in leadership development programs for Siemens, European Investment Bank, Lufthansa, BMW/British Rover, Hewlett-Packard, among others.

  • Created programs for recruitment, high-performance management, inter-cultural communication and management.

  • Designed and taught in-house programs for French companies such as Apple Computers, Sodexho, Castorama, Thomson Electronics, Laboratoires Glaxo, Michelin, and the Ministère de la Recherche.

  • Integrated the different schools of NLP, i.e. John Grinder, Richard Bandler, Robert Dilts, Leslie Cameron-Bandler into a coherent international program.

  • Conceived and coordinated international speakers bureau presenting to French audiences John Grinder, Carol Erickson, Robert Dilts, Stanley Krippner, Charles Faulkner, Tamara Andreas, George Leonard, Paul Watzlawick, and many more.

  • Created model of intercultural competence and transcultural management.

  • Presented Lab Profile Recruitment and management model to French companies, where this model was successfully used to hire department managers and staff for 5,000 -10,000 employee corporations.

  • Co-designed and co-taught new Practitioner and Master Practitioner Certification programs with John Grinder.

• • Initiated start-up of international NLP training center with Leslie-Cameron Bandler, David Gordon, Micheal Lebeau and Lynne Conwell.

• • Consulted to Richard Bandler, et. al. on marketing and public relations. Created mailings for successful seminars.

• • Analysed national seminar trainings industry and conceived and directed seminar program for SRI with national presentations for American Fortune 150 companies such as IBM, GE, Hyatt, General Motors, etc.

• • Conceived and wrote entire advertising campaign for ISU Insurance Company start-up, including collateral corporate publicity, entire print, radio, and television advertising campaign. Created campaigns for Merril Lynch, Proctor and Gamble, Maersk Lines.

• • Produced marketing program, press events and collateral brochures for appearance for 3000 attendees which received national publicity. On-camera interviewer of Dalai Lama for video series.

Academic Posts:

• • Created and taught model of intercultural communication and management.

• • Presented models of NLP and intercultural communication to Paris VI, VIII and XII.

• • Conceived and taught in-house programs on communication, negotiation and management.

• • Created and taught programs for creative writing, publishing and communication.

• • Presented NLP and creative writing programs.

Marketing:

• • Was responsible for marketing 125 musical groups, including The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young. Responsible for public launch of Bette Midler.

• • Responsible for marketing more than 15 motion pictures per year, won eight national advertising awards including best campaign of the year for "Joe."

• • Responsible for several positions including national magazine and trade publications. Responsible for launching "M*A*S*H" and other films, speech-writer for Darryl F. and Richard D. Zanuck.

• • Publicized films including "2001, A Space Odyssey," "The Dirty Dozen," "Blow-Up."

Editorial / Journalism:

• • Served as columnist for PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY and VIVA magazines, and as a freelance contributor to OMNI, PENTHOUSE, COSMOPOLITAN and CORONET. Previously was music editor for IN NEW YORK magazine, music critic for the WEST SIDE NEWS and the NY FREE PRESS and film critic for CIRCUS magazine.

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.

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

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