Quantum Leap (QL) is a California corporation founded
in 1987 by Carmen Bostic St. Clair, its
current president. Its principals
are Ms. Bostic and John Grinder, co-creator of NLP, who joined the company
in 1989. QL has some 17 associates in various parts of the world,
experts in specialties such as finance, technology, marketing, internet,….
These associates join with Ms. Bostic and Dr. Grinder
on specific projects as the needs of the clients companies dictate.
Description of NLP
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the process of
creating models of excellence. Modeling is the complex activity of capturing
in a learnable transferable code the differences that make a difference
between an excellent performer and an average performer, between an
excellent work team and an average one. NLP, then, is the process of
identifying, coding and transferring precisely those differences in a
learnable form to the interested participants and companies to allow
significant upgrading of their performance to levels of excellence.
NLP was created by John Grinder and Richard Bandler is
the early 1970’s. Their initial studies of geniuses - the typical
inspiration or source of the coded patterns - occurred in the field of
psychiatry and psychotherapy. More specifically, the performers who were the
subjects of the initial studies were Fritz Perls (founder of Gestalt
therapy), Virginia Satir (considered by many to be the ablest of the
American family therapists) and Milton H. Erickson (a physician and
psychiatrist who was reputedly the finest of the American medical
hypnotists).
Since those initial studies and the phenomenally rapid
growth of NLP centers in virtually every part of the world, there have been
a number of subsequent studies of excellence ranging from studies in
excellence in athletics, the arts (visual - painting), auditory (music -
both performance and composition) through education to top performers in the
world of business (leadership, managerial, strategic planning, teams,
marketing,…).
The primary criterion for the evaluation of a model is
its effectiveness - that is, either the implementation of the model (or
coded patterns) deliver the benefits proposed or it does not. Thus, while
the processes of actually creating the model - the codification of the
critical difference are wholly congruent with the general scientific methods
of discovery and testing, models differ from theories by their independence
from such issues as truth, fit with reality,… Models are, of course as
part of the general scientific discourse, subject to criteria such as
intersubjective verification, replicability, internal consistency,…