Author List

Dr Russell Grigg was previously an associate professor at the Wales Centre for Equity in Education, and has extensive experience in teacher training and has written many books and articles on the subject of primary education. Since 2018, Russell has been working as an education inspector for the Ministry of Education in the United Arab Emirates.

Click here to take a look at Russell's Padlet page, where he asks for your contributions to the question, What's the best idea in education ever?'.

Check out the new Teaching on a Shoestring website.

Co-developer of NLP John Grinder has been teaching and training in the field for over 30 years. His books include the classic The Structure of Magic Volumes I & II and Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, Volumes I & II (with Richard Bandler), and more recently Whispering in the Wind (with Carmen Bostic St. Clair). John now teaches New Code NLP, developed originally with Judith Delozier and more recently with Carmen Bostic St Clair. The New Code streamlines and brings significant enhancements to the now thirty year old Classic Code of NLP. John makes his home in the Santa Cruz mountains of central California and his passions include acquisition of foreign languages (he's presenting working on the 9th one), training and riding Arabian horses, and rock and ice climbing.

Malcolm Groves is a co-founder and managing director of Schools of Tomorrow. He has over 40 years' experience in education, encompassing primary and secondary phases, youth work, and adult education. He has been an Ofsted inspector, local authority inspector, school improvement partner, NPQH assessor, and national adviser to SSAT. Malcolm has a doctorate in school leadership from the University of Warwick.

www.malcolmgroves.net

John H. Edgette, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a Co-Director of the Milton H. Erickson Institute of Philadelphia and is co-author of the bestselling The Handbook of Hypnotic Phenomena in Psychotherapy. John also travels internationally giving highly acclaimed seminars on sport psychology to both therapists and athletes.

Gerald Haigh  had a long and varied career in education. He was a teacher for 30 years, 11 of them as a middle school head and was also a governor and an external examiner for two teacher training establishments. He wrote about education throughout his career, as the author of various books and in the Times Educational Supplement. In Good Ideas For Good Teachers Who Want Good Jobs  he shared everything he learnt about jobs and interviews, helping good teachers to get the jobs they want.

Click here to read Gerald's article on SecEd discussing Career Development.

Click here to read Gerald's article on the spelling, punctuation and grammar (SPAG) regime on page 16 in SchoolsWeek.

Jay Haley studied with Dr. Erickson for 17 years. He was a major editor of Erickson's works and authored many books about him. Mr. Haley was a professor at Stanford University, Howard University, the University of Maryland, and California School of Professional Psychology.

Tim Hallbom is an international trainer author, and developer in the field of NLP. He is a co-author of a number of books, including NLP: The New Technology of Achievement, Innovations in NLP, Your Mind Power, and Coaching in the Workplace, a comprehensive coaching guide for managers. He is also the author or co-author of several DVD programs, including The Early days of NLP with Robert Dilts, Journey into Beliefs with Robert Dilts and Kris Hallbom, The Dynamic Spin ReleaseTM, and The WealthyMindTM with Kris Hallbom.

Tim has contributed a huge body of knowledge to the field of NLP. He has refined and championed such processes as re-imprinting, integrating conflicting beliefs and new ways to use eye-accessing cues. As an NLP trainer and modeler, he has developed a number of popular NLP techniques, including ones for changing limiting beliefs, working with double binds and working with health related issues. He was recently made an International Diplomate in Coaching by the International Academy of Behavioral Medicine as a result of his contributions to the field of coaching..

In 1992, Tim co-created the 'Graduate School- of NLP with Robert Dilts and Suzi Smith - the Health Certification Training Program, which is considered to be one of the most advanced NLP training programs. He and his wife Kris are also the co-developers of the WealthyMindâ„¢ program, which has been taught in over 20 countries around the world to date. Moreover, Tim has made many contributions in the field of Professional Coaching. His NLP Coach Certification program was the first based in NLP in North America to be approved by the International Coach Federation. His most recent book, Coaching in the Workplace, Tim is also well known at some of the best and most recognized NLP institutes around the globe, including International Teaching Seminars (ITS) in London, The Institute for Eclectic Psychology (IEP) and the Coaching Plaza in the Netherlands; CMPNL in Mexico, and lots of others. He taught for years at NLP University with Robert Dilts and NLP Comprehensive with Steve and Connirae Andreas. Throughout his career as an NLP master trainer, Tim has trained thousands of highly effective NLPers, who are making their mark in the world.

Tim's own institute, which he runs with his wife and partner Kris, is the NLP and Coaching Institute of California. An internationally recognized institute, NLPCA is known for its quality of training and high integrity. As a master NLP trainer, Tim has also organized and taught over 60 NLP Practitioner Trainings at his own institutes He and his wife Kris have developed a very useful set of approaches to change called Dynamic Spin Release, which they began developing in 2008 and is now being taught around the world. An introduction to the process is also now available on DVD. They are also working on a new book that describes clear and consistent ways to identify and change limiting beliefs. In November of 2009, they both were keynote speakers at the International NLP Conference in London on Dynamic Spin Releaseâ„¢.

Tim's NLP history includes:
• Learning NLP in the early 80s from both Richard Bandler and John Grinder.
• Tim was the President of the National Association of NLP in 1990, which later became the International Association for NLP.
• He co-founded and was the President of the International Institute for the Advanced Studies in Health (IASH) with Robert Dilts and Suzi Smith, where today he an advisor.
• He co-founded Anchorpoint Institute with Suzi Smith, where in addition to doing training programs, he published Anchor Point NLP Journal ' which was the most widely read NLP publication in the world at that time; it was delivered to more than 30 countries!
• Tim was also a licensed psychotherapist from 1978-1999, when he began an active coach practice that he still maintains. He still offers breakthrough sessions to individuals by application.

Tim and his wife Kris currently live part time in San Francisco, California and Salt Lake City, Utah. His websites are: www.nlpca.com, www.thewealthymind.com, and www.dynamicspinrelease.com.

Click here to read Tim Hallbom’s blog.

Elaine Halligan is a director at The Parent Practice and has been a parenting specialist since 2006, helping parents raise competent and confident children through parenting classes, private coaching and keynote speaking in schools and corporate settings both in the UK and overseas. She is frequently quoted in the broadsheet press and regularly appears on Sky News, BBC world news and BBC local radio. Her mission is to help parents find the holy grail of parenting: keeping calm and bringing out the best in their children.

Click here to listen to the Parent Practice podcast.

Click here to read Elaine's interview in The Telegraph.

Click here to listen to Elaine's podcast with The Extraordinary Business Book Club.

Click here to listen to Elaine's podcast with How to Raise a Maverick.

Click here to listen to Elaine's discussion with Conversations with Cyrus Webb.

Click here to listen to Elaine's podcast Late Night Parents' on NY Radio.

Click here to listen to Elaine's interview with So Booking Cool!

Click here to listen to Elaine's podcast interview with Teach Learning Leading K 12.

Click here to read Elaine Halligan’s blog.

Roger Hambleton had experience as both a prosecutor and defender in criminal cases as well as in civil law. He held a Bachelor's degree in psychology and criminology in addition to a Master of Laws degree. For his work on hypnosis he was awarded an MPhil research degree by Manchester Metropolitan University. He also held an advanced practitioner of clinical hypnotherapy diploma, retiring as a senior partner of a British firm of solicitors.

Margot Hamblett was also an NLP trainer, co-developer of the Transforming Communication Seminar with Richard and his life partner, until her recent death.

James Handscombe studied mathematics at Oxford and Harvard before training to be a teacher. He worked in schools in South Wales, Australia and south-east London before becoming the founding principal of Harris Westminster Sixth Form in 2014. He occasionally gets invited to speak at conferences and sometimes finds time to write things – mostly articles for the TES and letters to the editor of The Times, but he's also written for Schools Week and The Spectator's Coffee House blog.

Click here to read James Handscombe’s blog.

Kimberley Hare has been described as 'a pioneering visionary for change and learning-. Her focus is on helping individuals, teams and organisations to create the future they want.

Andy Hargreaves is a world-renowned British-Canadian educator who has dedicated his life to working with teachers and schools to make learning and teaching more engaging, fulfilling and collaborative for everyone. An author or editor of almost 40 books, Andy is a gifted writer who has become one of the most cited education scholars alive and has received 8 outstanding writing awards to date.

He is an education adviser to the First Minister of Scotland, and for the Minister of Education for New Brunswick in Canada. He holds Honorary Doctorates from Sweden, Hong Kong and the University of Greater Manchester, has been honoured in the UK, Canada, the US and Australia for services to public education and educational research, and was awarded his university’s Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award in 2015 at Boston College in the US.

You can learn more at www.andyhargreaves.com and can join his 40,000+ followers on X (formerly Twitter) @hargreavesbc or Bluesky @ahargreaves.bsky.social. 

Dave Harris has worked for over 20 years in school leadership, including 12 years as a school principal across both primary and secondary phases. During this time, he has developed a reputation for innovative thinking and practice, which he is now sharing with school leaders across the world. He is a sought-after speaker and writer and is also Business Director of Independent Thinking.

Read Dave's feature on page 26 of Leadership Focus Magazine - March 2013.

As a qualified and experienced counsellor, Sarah has worked with women dealing with gender-specific issues connected to finding personal and professional fulfilment, work/life balance and living apart from their children, for over ten years. She has a Masters Degree in Policy Studies, focusing on working women, motherhood and social policy. Drawing on her professional studies and her own personal experience of living apart from her child she offers a unique and pragmatic approach to supporting women who find themselves, for whatever reason, living apart from their children.

Read Sarah's article Mother's who walk out - the last taboo?' on The Telegraph's website.

Ronald Havens is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Springfield where he taught for over 30 years. Throughout that time he also conducted a part time private practice, wrote numerous articles and spoke extensively on the therapeutic uses of hypnosis, and led professional training workshops on Ericksonian approaches to hypnotherapy throughout the country.

Crista Hazell is an Independent Thinking Associate and MFL specialist with many years' experience both in the classroom and in positions of leadership. She has worked across the UK and internationally ' in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East ' with students, teachers and school leaders in developing teaching, learning, relationships and behaviour.

Chris Henley is a trainer and keynote speaker who taught for over thirty years in three different secondary schools. Chris is an inspirational teacher who moved on from leading an outstanding languages department to become a senior leader. As assistant head in charge of teaching and learning, he played a major role in two successful Ofsted inspections.

Jane Hewitt taught mainly at secondary level for 30 years. Jane still loves learning, discovering new ideas and photography and is rarely found without a camera around her neck!

Click here to try out Jane's Collage Challenge.

Visit Jane's photography Website here or her Den Building site here.

Carol Hicks Lankton, MA, is a licensed marriage and family therapist who operates a private practice at the Wellness Institute of East Hill in Pensacola, Florida. Internationally recognized for her role in the evolution of an Ericksonian approach to family therapy and clinical hypnosis, she is the coauthor of three books and author of numerous contributions. Ms. Lankton conducts training for mental health professionals worldwide and is passionate in her desire to facilitate therapeutic transformation that is both brief and deeply healing.

Click here to read Carol Hicks Lankton’s blog.

Richard Hill, M.A., M.Ed., M.B.M.Sc., D.P.C., is acknowledged internationally as an expert in human dynamics, communication, the brain, and the mind. He is an international lecturer and keynote speaker on the topics of neuroscience and psychosocial genomics, has developed special training courses for suicide prevention, and is the originator of the Curiosity Approach. As well as giving lectures to the psychological profession in Australia and the rest of the world, Richard has a strong ongoing engagement with the coaching and business community.

Click here to view/join Richard Hill's Facebook Mirroring Hands' group.

Listen to Richard on the Therapycast Podcast.