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Dreamers and Doers
When your mission as a company is to change the world, one conversation at a time, you need a team of dreamers and doers to help you get there.
At Erickson Coaching International, we have an exceptional in-house, multicultural team of dedicated professionals behind us, as well as a formidable faculty of international facilitators and an alumni base of 55 000+ graduates from all over the globe.
With coaches in 125 countries, and over 40 global partners, we're proud to be the most global coaching school in the world.
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The Story Behind The Erickson Name
- Milton Erickson

As a clinical psychologist, our founder, Dr. Marilyn Atkinson, became a dedicated follower of Milton Erickson's work, giving his name to Erickson Coaching International because she believed in the power of his solution-focused, metaphorical mindset as a powerful means of human transformation.
Who was Milton Erickson?
Neuro-Linguistic programming (NLP) and the Solution-Focused Counseling approach grew out of a study by some of the most successful American therapists and leaders - one of whom was Milton Erickson.
His basic presuppositions that all behavior has a positive unconscious intent, and must be respected, caused a fundamental paradigm shift in modern psychotherapy.
Studies concerning which techniques work and how people change and heal inevitably led to a clear, higher-level understanding of how to catalyze healing. And this led to the development of NLP, one of the most powerful vehicles for change in existence.
To date, aspects of Erickson's legacy, Accelerated Learning Strategies and NLP have been integrated into some of the most advanced models in the human potential movement and psychotherapy arenas.