L. Michael Hall is a visionary leader in the field of Neuro-Semantics, a modeler of positive psychology. Michael is an entrepreneur, researcher/modeler, and international trainer. His doctorate is in the Cognitive-Behavioral sciences from Union Institute University. He worked for 20 years as a psychotherapist in Colorado and found NLP in 1986. He then studied with Richard Bandler and wrote several books for him. When studying and modeling resilience, he developed the Meta-States model (1994) and then founded the field of Neuro-Semantics . After he began traveling nationally and internationally, he later co-founded the Society of Neuro-Semantics with Bob Bodenhamer (the International Society of Neuro-Semantics, ISNS, in 1996). As a prolific writer, Michael has written more than 35 books, many best sellers in the field of NLP. He first applied NLP to coaching in 1991, but it wasn't until 2001 that he began developing Neuro-Semantic or Meta-Coaching. In 2002 Michelle Duval joined him in co-creating the complete Meta-Coaching Training System and in 2003, they founded the Meta-Coach Foundation.