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Charles Faulkner (author)
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Charles Faulkner, (born 12 January 1952), is an American, currently living in England, who is a Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner and trainer, life coach, motivational speaker, trader and author. Faulkner began his career studying linguistics at Northwestern University while counseling at a crisis center. Having discovered NLP, a method he surmised to be a more advanced way of changing human behavior, he abandoned his course of study and became a licensed NLP practitioner.Most notably, Faulkner developed Neuro-linguistic Programming methods of modeling excellence in the world of finance. He has authored a number of books and audio tapes, of which the most well-known audio is ""NLP: The New Technology of Achievement."" Faulkner is profiled in the book The New Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager.