Speaker & Author

Alexander Van Buren is an entrepreneur, consultant, author, and one of the world’s foremost behavioral modelers.  He has started and run his own companies for more than 35 years.

After becoming a certified Master Practitioner in Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) he spent 2 years learning how to ‘model something’ with NLP. He conducted his first behavioral modeling project in 1997.

Determined to elicit the structure of creativity in detail, he read Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks every single day for two years while eliciting Walt Disney’s actual creative process and studying Peter Drucker’s concepts on innovation.

The project loosed a flood of creative ideas. He became spontaneously ambidextrous and began dreaming in color and from multiple perceptual positions. He has conducted formal ongoing behavioral modeling projects ever since.

Over the next several years he elicited and created more than 170 original patterns of excellence and models. He’s modeled the comeback strategy of tennis legend Andre Agassi, the delegation methods of a senior executive at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the sales techniques of selling champions at Bluegreen, management and leadership patterns from extraordinary executives, top-performing investment bankers at George K. Baum, the mental-game patterns of world-class athletes, and many more.

Applying what he’d learned from his modeling projects, Alexander decided to start a business in April of 2008, right at the start of the economic recession. The business grew from a dining room table to five full-time employees in less than 2 years.

In 2002 he was hired by the Bluegreen Land & Golf Corporation to behaviorally model their top salespeople and referral-getters. Some of their salespeople went on to earn over a million dollars a year in take-home commission for the first time in the company’s history. Some of his phone coaching clients have increased their take-home pay to over a million dollars a year in commissions using these techniques.

In 2014 he was retained to model senior investment bankers for George K. Baum & Company and teach the model to a group of hand-picked, up-and-coming investment bankers.

Alexander has been a featured presenter at the Stanford Executive Program Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

His clients include numerous small business owners and entrepreneurs and larger companies including Toshiba, Humana, Polte/Del Web, Bluegreen Land & Golf Corporation, The Army Corps of Engineers, The Nevada Regional Transportation Commission, Paramount Home Entertainment, Sinclaire Broadcasting – CWTV, Arrow Electronics, The Iowa National Guard, Safelite Auto Glass and hundreds more.

“The problem with best practices is that all your competitors are using them too. In this age of rapid change and uncertain times, ordinary strategies simply aren’t good enough.

 

Unique patterns that have been modeled from world-class performers give you a significant strategic advantage; from marketing to sales to leadership, to how flexible and adaptable your company is, to creating a unique value chain and a sustained competitive advantage.

 

One of the most exciting things about using Modeled Patterns is that they change how you move through the world. Extraordinary things are possible once you begin using the exact patterns and formulas of the very best.”

Alexander Van Buren