Members - IBNLP

Tracey Malanowich

Tracey works with patterns—how language, perception, physiology, and attention interact to either support or interfere with wellbeing. Her work integrates Neuro-Linguistic Programming with bioenergetics, nutrition, and embodied feedback to help clients restore clarity, regulation, and choice.

Following a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, a clear pattern emerged: when interference was removed and the body was given the right conditions, body intelligence reorganized rapidly. Within six weeks, physiological communication and responsiveness shifted—shaping a process-oriented approach focused on restoring function rather than prescribing solutions.

Through her work with clients and in her group coaching programs, Tracey applies a structured three-pillar process—Body, Brain, and Being—to support sustainable pattern change. NLP provides the framework for working with internal language, state regulation, and perceptual flexibility so clients feel more empowered, stable, and able to work with their system rather than against it.

Further information about her work and programs can be found at ilightcoaching.com

Kristen Smith

Kristen is a certified life coach, emotional wellness guide, and founder of body.and.spirit, with over 30 years of experience in training, education, and transformation-focused work. She specializes in helping clients balance blood sugar, hormones, gut health, and emotions to create lasting physical, emotional, and relational well-being.

Drawing from her own journey through chronic exhaustion, inflammation, and a mixed-faith marriage, Kristen brings deep empathy and practical tools to her coaching. She is certified in life coaching, NLP, and hypnosis, and supports clients through emotional release, mindset shifts, and relationship healing—especially for those navigating differing beliefs within marriage or family relationships.

Kristen’s work helps clients move from overwhelm, resentment, and disconnection to clarity, peace, and meaningful connection, while honoring LDS values. A proud wife, mother of four daughters, and nana to three, she is passionate about helping others build resilient, joyful lives rooted in love, understanding, and personal growth.

Surinder Gil

DSurinder Gill is an NLP Trainer with a successful coaching practice. He has helped hundreds of people with issues such as weight loss, smoking cessation, and panic attacks. As a former Police Sergeant, Surinder has extensive experience in communication and is passionate about teaching people the power of the language of the mind.

Hypnosis is a large part of Surinder’s coaching practice and this enables him to weave Hypnotic language patterns into the techniques of NLP in a natural and trance-inducing way.

Deb Yager

Deborah Yager is a powerhouse with an unusual journey that only strengthens her as a Master Coach & Master Trainer. NLP found Deb several years ago, and it was a match made in Heaven. Her past struggles with sexuality, addiction, and negative self talk were hurdles in her life that NLP helped her overcome. On the other side of those hurdles was a brand new self empowered Deb – full of big ideas and the desire to create change.

Because of her background, Deb discovers what clients really want by helping them dive into their past traumas and current perceptions. She focuses on rebuilding better lives by using powerful tools to conquer negative feelings that hold people back. Over the last few years, her innovative approach to the mind and body has helped hundreds of people lead more fulfilling lives. She is a firm believer in the ability to manifest your own reality and everything that comes into your realm.

Founding the International Board of NLP with her husband is something that has always been in the works for Deb. Her mission to help women create confidence in life, relationships, business, sales, sex, and more has driven her to co-create this board to help people build the confidence and freedom that leads to a successful and happy life.

Brandon Yager

Brandon Yager believes in setting big goals, taking massive action, and constantly improving along the way. His excellence-based philosophy incorporates a feedback system that allows you to pivot so you can continually produce massive results, cultivate deeper connections, and increase your confidence. He knows that when you transform your thoughts, you can create the life that you really want.

Since co-founding Yager Training LLC with his wife, Deborah, Brandon has become an expert in the field of NLP. With an impressive business list behind him, he is also an expert in real estate, health, fitness, and whole body wellness. He’s a natural problem solver who values an incredibly effective workflow. His drive to be the best is evident in all that he does, and by knowing what it takes to get there, he finds purpose in helping others attain the same success.

NLP has allowed Brandon to experience personal and financial freedom and it’s become a key part of his life’s mission. Founding the International Board of NLP is his next step in revolutionizing training and bringing massive action to the world of NLP.

Lori Ivans

Lori Ivins is a Life Re-Alignment Coach who helps empower and guide women along their journey into the unknown to face their fears, realign limiting beliefs, eliminate trauma, and embrace their transformation to live a bold life free of fear.

As a certified NLP Trainer and Master Coach, Lori is passionate about helping thousands of women reach their ultimate potential to make a massive impact on future generations. Lori is also a professional speaker on Life Re-Alignment, NLP, Hypnosis, and Quantum Time Technique.

Out of Lori’s titles, her favorites are wife and mom. She’s been married for over forty years, has four sons, and lives in Georgetown, Texas. In her free time, you can find her writing poetry, taking photos of nature, loving on her grandkids, and giving back through her non-profit she co founded with five other women, The Key2Free, serving survivors of sex trafficking and bringing awareness to this nefarious industry.

You can learn more about Lori or book your complimentary consultation at LoriIvins.com.

Linnette Vasquez

As an IBNLP Board Certified Trainer, Linnette believes that NLP is one of the most effective methods for creating rapport with your unconscious mind to rapidly release old programming, shift your beliefs, and change your behavior to create massive results in your life and business. She believes this because she herself has experienced life changing transformation through the investments she made in NLP.

Her passion for serving others and her ability to assist individuals to discover the best version of themselves is what makes her a magical and highly effective NLP Trainer & Master Practitioner. She utilizes the world’s best tools, strategies, and teachings to bring positive results, and create lasting change. Her clients reach their outcomes 100% of the time. Guaranteed.

With 12 years of education experience, Ms. Vasquez has placed herself as an authority in the field of NLP Education through Corporate Trainings and private sessions with high performing clients. The lessons she learned while serving as a national and international educator in Brickell & Key Biscayne in Miami, FL — as well as Indonesia — easily and effortlessly translate into outstanding trainings and breakthrough sessions.

Linnette resides in Miami, Florida and travels often to Austin, Texas to train and support NLP students.

Visit her website to learn more: missvasquez.com

CERTIFICATIONS:

Board Certified Trainer of NLP (IBNLP)
Board Certified Master Practitioner of NLP (IBNLP)
Board Certified Trainer of NLP Life Coaching (IBNLP)
Board Certified Master NLP Life Coach (IBNLP)
Board Certified Trainer of Quantum Time Transformation (IBNLP)
Board Certified Master Practitioner of Quantum Time Transformation (IBNLP)
Board Certified Trainer of Hypnosis (IBNLP)
Board Certified Master Practitioner of Hypnosis (IBNLP)
Certified Facilitator & Practitioner of Legacy Leadership® (NSCI)

Jen Hardy

Jen is the founder and CEO of her own NLP coaching and training company, Jen Hardy Coaching and Training. Her gift of elevating others in a way that paves a path for them to step into themsleves authentically, coupled with her ability to connect with anyone so that they may feel truly heard, seen, and known, increases her ability to have a dramatic and quick impact on all who have the pleasure of being educated and lead by her.

Her passion for coaching and educating started in public education, teaching health and communications, while also leading athletic teams as a state champion high school varsity soccer coach. Throughout her career as a high school coach, Ms. Hardy was highly decorated with multiple local, state, and even national coaching awards and championships but felt as though something was still missing. As it turns out, coaching and teaching are what she believes she is meant to do in this world, just not in the public education sector.

When Ms. Hardy found NLP she couldn’t get through the material quick enough and spent a year getting through her training certification with the IBNLP. After such accreditation though she spent the following year going back to assist each training she had been a part of to learn and serve from a different perspective, deepening her love of the tools and skills NLP provides to make a difference in the lives of others. She now runs her own NLP company where she can proudly continue her passion for teaching and coaching by offering such services as one on one empowerment coaching, NLP, and QTT certification programs focused on Self Mastery, Leadership, and Coaching, as well as creating and leading corporate training. She’s grateful to the Yager training company for supporting her in discovering how to make her passion her life’s work.

Jen resides in San Antonio, Texas, where she hosts NLP training quarterly.

Visit her website to learn more: thejenhardy.com

CERTIFICATIONS:

Board Certified Trainer of NLP (IBNLP)
Board Certified Master Practitioner of NLP (IBNLP & ABNLP)
Board Certified Trainer of NLP Life Coaching (IBNLP, ABNLP)
Board Certified Master NLP Life Coach (IBNLP, ABNLP)
Board Certified Trainer of Quantum Time Transformation (IBNLP)
Board Certified Master Practitioner of Quantum Time Transformation (IBNLP, TLTA)
Board Certified Trainer of Hypnosis (IBNLP, ABH)
Board Certified Master Practitioner of Hypnosis (IBNLP, ABH)

Megan Blacksmith

Megan Blacksmith is the co-founder of Zesty Ginger, a company founded on the principles of compassionate transformation where they help women restore optimal health through a combination of functional medicine, mindset and subconscious reprogramming.

After her own postpartum health crash (what she calls falling off the hormone cliff) over 10 years ago, all her regular lab work said that she was “perfect” while she felt miserable. Finding functional medicine, holistic nutrition and the power of the mind/body connection she was able to see that there really was an imbalance and more importantly there was something she could do about it!

Megan has married her passion for health as a certified holistic health coach, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner with the power of subconscious reprogramming through Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Quantum Time Technique Hypnotherapy.

Zesty Ginger’s framework has gotten such amazing results with clients that they are now teaching that framework to practitioners. They host in-person Practitioner certification trainings for people in the holistic health space such as health coaches, doctors, nutritionists, dieticians, and naturopaths.

Visit her website to learn more: www.zestyginger.com

Or listen to the Zesty Ginger podcast here – https://www.zestyginger.com/zesty-ginger-podcast/

CERTIFICATIONS:

Board Certified Trainer of NLP (IBNLP)
Board Certified Master Practitioner of NLP (IBNLP & ABNLP)
Board Certified Trainer of NLP Life Coaching (IBNLP, ABNLP)
Board Certified Master NLP Life Coach (IBNLP, ABNLP)
Board Certified Trainer of Quantum Time Transformation (IBNLP)
Board Certified Master Practitioner of Quantum Time Transformation (IBNLP, TLTA)
Board Certified Trainer of Hypnosis (IBNLP, ABH)
Board Certified Master Practitioner of Hypnosis (IBNLP, ABH)
CHHC
FDN-P

Irina Alexander

Irina Alexander is the founder of the Academy of MotivAction – Neuro-Science based training for entrepreneurs and thought leaders, using tools and techniques from behavior research and science to create hugely successful life and businesses.

Her journey for the last 20 years has been a worldwide quest to understand what makes a great entrepreneur and person so successful. Her career started in the Hospitality Industry where she managed all aspects of international customer relations including travel consultations, reservations, multi-cultural public relations, customer service, and corporate sales management.

Through running her own businesses, and learning from many amazing mentors, she has been blessed with many experiences, challenges, and lessons.

She obtained her MBA at the age of 21 and is the owner of multiple businesses. She is a Certified Business Coach, Certified Master Coach, and Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Quantum Timeline Therapy, and Hypnosis.

In 2018, after only 2 years in a male-dominated industry, she reached the top 1.6% of all women-owned businesses, by working on the business, and not in her business.

She knows – all the struggles that businesses have usually come down to 3 things: Time, People, and Money.

However, the only thing holding most people back from the business of their dreams is them, and more specifically, their beliefs, habits, mindset, and skillset.

Through Irina’s speaking engagements and training, she is equipping audiences worldwide with authentic movement to develop stronger communication skills, guide them to create successful businesses they desire, make significant differences in people’s lives, and increase their income and impact along the way. From an audience of 100 to 100,000 Irina empowers, equips, and motivates people to take action and live the life of their dreams.

Amie Arizmendi

Amie Arizmendi is a small town girl who served in the U.S. Navy for 20 years where she served most as a leader. While in the U.S. Navy, Amie worked extensively as a Suicide Prevention Specialist and Sexual Assault Advocate. Working with diverse populations, Amie learned how to appreciate the tiny nuances contained within cultures. Amie obtained her Master’s level education and worked as a mental health therapist. After much consideration and further specialized training, Amie became a Life Coach offering transformative healing and optimal support to her clients.

Amie used to be a different version of who she is today, like many of us. For most of her life, she felt unseen and unheard; lost and not knowing how to find her way seemed to inundate her reality.No matter what she tried, she seemed to end up back in a similar space that held her captive to who she had hoped to become. Amie was on a hamster wheel that was going nowhere. She spent years working on herself, incorporating various forms of healing, including therapy and self-help books. Unlearning old behaviors and patterns, expanding her mind, and learning new ways of living were something Amie invested her time and money in.

Now, as a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Therapist -Associate, certifications in Coaching & Hypnotherapy, Quantum Timeline Technique, Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and Master Coach coupled with her own life experiences to include her own personal breakthroughs, ABR Coaching, Consulting & Training was born and seeks to serve others in their personal/professional breakthroughs. ABR Coaching, Consulting, & Training seeks to find solutions by identifying key problem areas. ABR Coaching, Consulting & Training strives for authenticity, transparency, and courage.

Today, ABR Coaching, Consulting, & Training helps adults unlock the power of their minds, creating a space where newfound personal freedoms are realized, enabling them to pursue their dreams more effectively. By using the specific tools available as a therapist and coach, ABR Coaching, Consulting, & Training serves others to release the limits to become their best selves!