# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-grinder
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:17:48.593Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-grinder"
name: "John Grinder"
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description: "John Thomas Grinder Jr. is an American linguist, writer, management consultant, trainer and speaker. Grinder is credited with co-creating the pseudoscience known as neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) with Richard Bandler. He is co-director of Quantum Leap Inc., a management consulting firm founded by his partner Carmen Bostic St. Clair in 1987. Grinder and Bostic St. Clair also run workshops and seminars on NLP internationally."
tagline: "American linguist, developer of neuro-linguistic programming"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Grinder_(1976).jpg?width=1200"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1940-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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    url:       "https://www.johngrinder.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump