About

Alexander Van Buren is an entrepreneur, consultant, author, and one of the world’s foremost behavioral modelers. 

His coaching, training and consulting company is devoted to imparting world-class strategies and innovative ideas for achieving personal and professional breakthroughs and quantum leaps.

Van Buren has spent 26 years training in NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming), coaching business owners and executives, and doing behavioral modeling projects.

After spending 2 years learning how to ‘model something’ Alexander 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 has conducted formal ongoing behavioral modeling projects ever since. Over the next several years he elicited and created over 200 original patterns of excellence and models.

He’s modeled the comeback strategy of tennis legend Andre Agassi, the delegation techniques of a senior executive at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the visionary syntax Tom Watson used to create IBM, the top 2% of mortgage originators, the mental game secrets of bodybuilding champion Tom Platz, the self-discipline secrets of Navy SEALS, and the memory methods of a world-class violinist.

In 2002 he was hired by the Bluegreen Land & Golf Corporation to behaviorally model their top salespeople and referral getters. Some of their sales people went on to earn over a million dollars a year in take-home commission for the first time in the company’s history. 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.

Applying what he’d learned from his modeling projects, he decided to grow one of his companies in April of 2008, right at the start of the economic recession. The business grew from a dining room table to five employees in less than 2 years. He then leveraged out of the company by automating all its processes. The passive income from his business-turned-asset made him financially free.

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.