Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner

Steve Andreas was an industrial chemist before becoming an NLP
trainer and developer of new methods.With his wife Connirae he
founded NLP Comprehensive in Colorado in 1979 (which offered the
first ever NLP training certification), and with her has co-authored two
books, Change Your Mind—And Keep the Change (1987) and Heart of
the Mind (1989). He has written numerous articles and produced video
and audio programs, and wrote a biography of one of America's pathbreaking
relationships therapists, Virginia Satir: The Patterns of Her
Magic (1991). He has an MA in psychology from Brandeis University
and for 30 years has run Real People Press, a publisher focused on personal
change.
Charles Faulkner has pioneered an array of methods for accelerated
language learning, but is well known for his NLP methods in financial
decision making and the modeling of successful bond traders. Audiotape
programs include Metaphors of Identity and Success Mastery with
NLP.
The other contributing authors to NLP: The New Technology of
Achievement are Kelly Gerling, Tim Halbom, Robert McDonald, Gerry
Schmidt, and Suzi Smith. The book was originally written as a audio
program in 1991.