Richard Bandler co-creator of NLP Richard Wayne Bandler (born 1950[1]) is an American author and consultant in the field of self-help. With John Grinder, he founded the neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) approach to psychotherapy in the 1970s. Bandler was born in Teaneck, New Jersey and attended high school in Sunnyvale, California.[2]:24 He has stated that he …