NLP Comprehensive Staff

Tom Dotz, President

Tom acquired NLP Comprehensive in 1998 after selling the NLP Institute of California, which he had founded in 1990 and grew to the largest organization of its kind in the U.S.

NLP Comprehensive offered Tom a chance to preserve and enlarge upon one of the most valuable and respected institutions in NLP. Beginning with our first e-commerce site in 1998, to going digital with audio and video titles, he continues to add new innovations to the structure, trainings, and products the company produces.

Tom has studied NLP since 1978, and is certified as an NLP Master Practitioner and Health Practitioner.

Tom Hoobyar, Director of Planning

Tom founded the “NLP Café” -- a volunteer non-profit NLP study and development group -- in 1995 in Mountain View, California.  Since then, over 500 Café manuals have been issued worldwide to people who want to form their own local groups.

He retired in 2005 as CEO of a Silicon Valley BioTech firm following a long career as a successful entrepreneur. Now he is adding his strategic, marketing and product development skills to our team at NLP Comprehensive. 

Tom is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers. He is certified as an NLP Master Practitioner and Health Practitioner, and has eleven years of NLP coaching experience.

Charles Faulkner, Director of Programs

Charles is one of the real modelers and thinkers in the field of NLP. He famously used NLP modeling to discover the mix of mental and emotional skills required for superior decision making and action. His studies of futures traders are featured in numerous interviews in books and journals including The New Market Wizards (1992), The Intuitive Trader (1996), and Trend Following (2004). His latest application is the five dimensions of natural decision making. His other modeling projects include: a study of physician decision strategies used by 3M, a modeling of a software testing designer's methodology for H-P, a consulting group's team work strategy, as well as how a corporation creates a culture for IBM.

Charles is also the author or co-author of 10 NLP titles including co-editing with Steve Andreas NLP: The New Technology of Achievement - the #1 NLP best seller on Amazon.com. He has also produced an audio series on how metaphors affect identity, influence and change in individuals and organizations, as well as combining NLP and Systems Dynamics in his experiential coaching tool Trimurti (2001).

Throughout all of these activities, Charles maintains a connection with leading academics in cognitive science and linguistics - using these cutting edge insights to advance and inform NLP.  Recently Charles has been honored with an appointment as a Visiting Senior Fellow in the University of Surrey School of Management where he will be working with Professors Paul Tosey and Jane Mathison developing the UK NLP Research Program. His contributions will include his knowledge and applications of Cognitive Linguistics and Neuroscience to NLP as well as substantiating research in Behavioral Finance and Natural Decision Making.

His commitment to continuing innovation in the field of NLP keeps him working with us, where his latest contribution is the design of the newest NLP Practitioner Certification program.

Sharon DeBault, Director of Community Relations

Sharon is usually the first person you'll talk to when you call our office. Lucky you!

She has been with us for over 12 years in a variety of roles ranging from graphic designer to General Manager. Sharon's long history with the company provides a real center within our NLP Comprehensive community.

So, she either knows the answer to any question you might have, or she knows where to get it.

She was introduced to NLP by Lara Ewing after leaving her position as Editor in Chief of a Macintosh Computer Magazine. She really enjoys the people part of NLP Comprehensive, and she is the champion of your needs. She has the clout to suggest policy changes when she thinks they're needed, and we listen!

Sharon is certified as an NLP Practitioner.

Jamie Reaser, PhD, Director of Professional Relations

Jamie is our ambassador to the academic and research worlds, and she is uniquely qualified to do so.

She began her study of NLP in 1997 while completing her Doctorate in Biology at Stanford University under world renowned ecologist Paul Ehrlich.  Jamie has since used her NLP skills as a professional trainer, facilitator, and environmental negotiator for such organizations as the Smithsonian Institution, U.S. Department of State, and the United Nations, as well as academic institutions and major corporations.  In 2005, she received the NLP World Community Award for the Environment for this work.

As an "ecopsychologist," Jamie also applies her NLP skills as a guide to individuals and groups who want to more fully align their life vision and mission with "sustainable living." Jamie is now head (and heart) of her own non-profit, Ecos Systems Institute, and assists individual clients through her private practice, Transformational Counseling.  She is certified as an NLP Master Practitioner, Health Practitioner and Trainer.

Christian Miller, Publishing Manager

While perusing an audio-bookstore in 1999, Christian Miller discovered the audio-program: NLP: The New Technology of Achievement, and has been immersed in the technology ever since.  In the back of the six-tape set he found our contact information, and would soon arrange a work-trade agreement to attend his first Practitioner training.  Within the next three years he would become our Product Manager, then onto becoming our Projects Manager.  After completing his Master Practitioner training, he seized the opportunity to deepen his understanding of NLP through coaching and coordinating both Practitioner and Master Practitioner trainings and in 2003 began his own counseling, coaching and consulting practice in Denver, Colorado, which he maintains to this day.  

The editor of The Living Encyclopedia of NLP – Volume I, Christian is currently working on two titles of his own, creating NLP-based workshops for teenagers, and will soon begin editing The Living Encyclopedia of NLP – Volume II.