Terry Elston

Terry Elston is the managing director of NLP World. He has been involved in coaching and training for over 26 years and has been a trainer of NLP for over 23 years. He is also a certified trainer in Spiral Dynamics (personal & corporate personality profiling) to level II trainer. As well as being a trainer of Hypnosis and Clinical Hypnotherapy (an accredited trainer through AIP), he is also one of the few Time-Based Techniques trainers in the UK.

Trainer of NLP (ANLP, AIP, CPD, ICR)
Master Practitioner of NLP (ANLP, AIP).
Trainer Level 11 Spiral Dynamics (corporate and personal personality profiling system)
Trainer of Time Based Techniques (Neuro Energetics)
Master Hypnotist & Trainer of Clinical Hypnosis (AIP)
Corporate and Executive coach (TCS, ICR, Comensa)
Other: Writer – has published 7 books. Finalist awarded by ANLP for NLP in Business

Biographical Information
His goal is to continually work with corporations, individuals, and groups to make cohesive, healthy networks that empower companies and individual’s visions and goals.

He specialises in the following areas:

Group dynamic change: With over 22 years of NLP training experience, he leads groups from 5 to 100 in various briefs from NLP skillset training, sales training, all aspects of communication, team building, and self–development. Executive coaching: Personal breakthrough sessions where a personal issue becomes personal learning! People’s lives change.
Working beyond the brief: Sometimes groups will need more than a set of good skills or slick trainers. Terry’s abilities are well known to the media as well as the groups and individuals that have come to see him. He has the “Midas touch” when it comes to getting results.

His corporate skills did not go unnoticed: The UK government called in NLP World to work on communication goals within the Cabinet Office in Whitehall. The UK police force also wanted exclusive NLP training from Terry and NLP World. Consequently, NLP World trained many police officers in advanced communication skills and personality profiling.


Terry also has a background in coaching. He has been coaching executives and celebrities for over twenty years and provides coaching and mentoring services for diverse clientèle and associates around the world.

Terry is accredited at the highest trainer level by ANLP, the largest independent NLP accreditation body in the world. Also accredited via AIP – one of the largest NLP and Hypnosis corporations worldwide.

NLP World Ltd, based in Brighton, is a company with a vision, that delivers bespoke training and NLP qualifications. Terry’s personal philosophy is to provide a highly evolved, personalised approach to develop practical solutions for clients. One of his characteristics is to ongoingly update and expand his own training and development.

As well as being a qualified Trainer of NLP, he is a trainer of Spiral Dynamics level 2 advanced, he trains elements Practitioner of Meta-Health (formerly Meta-Medicine), and regularly travels internationally to update his specialty knowledge. He is also a Master Hypnotist and a trainer of Clinical Hypnotherapy.

As well as the many blue-chip companies using NLP World trainers, (click here to see the companies) there have been a selection of assignments includes training Police, Home Office, and MOD personnel; developing training modules for the Cabinet Office, and one-2-one coaching for top executives in blue-chip and governmental institutions.

The personal touch is paramount in Terry’s world when seeking the inner depths of resolution for challenges or problems. This personal approach is what people seek when choosing NLP World as their training provider.