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How you want to live is up to you.
NLP Coaching Association Pte. Ltd.
Managing Director
NLP Master Trainer, Master Coach
Chinatsu Yamazaki
Chinatsu began working at Sumitomo Bank (current Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
Cooperation) after graduating university. This was the start of Chinatsuʼs
financial career which is a core part of her NLP.
Defying expectations, she left the bank after four years and moved to Sydney,
Australia to study English.
‘The tallest nail gets hammered down.ʼ is an unwritten rule in Japanese culture
and people are expected to be average, not to be unique. Life in Australia was
completely the opposite and gave Chinatsu an opportunity to freely express
herself and be comfortable with herself. Sydney became a special place for
Chinatsu where she gained more than just language skills. She realised the
importance of recognising peopleʼs different identities.
Upon returning to Japan after a year in Australia she joined the Marketing & Data distribution division in Reuters. While working at Reuters she was headhunted by a global hedge fund. This was where Chinatsu met Sebastian Leblond who was studying NLP at the time. Sebastien had planned to set up a new financial business in Bangkok, Thailand. He traveled to Tokyo to persuade Chinatsu to be his business partner for his new business but he was unsuccessful as Chinatsu did not want to relinquish her career in Tokyo. Chinatsu continued to work hard to keep what she thought was important to her. It didnʼt take long before her physical and mental health began to suffer due to the long hours that she was working.
Chinatsu resigned from the company in 2009 and took a year off, traveling to find a healthy balance within herself.
During her traveling days, Sebastien contacted Chinatsu again and she visited him in Bangkok. While staying in Bangkok she learned more about the company that he had established there. It offered a combination of NLP and financial consulting 'a life plan' that provided a better life as a whole.
Chinatsu joined a workshop there and was instantly attracted to it. She signed a lease for a condominium and immediately started her new career in Bangkok.
Chinatsu built up a client base from zero providing financial consulting in Thailand. At the same time she started to support Sebastienʼs NLP seminars and worked regularly as an interpreter due to an increasing number of Japanese clients.
When a client requested a seminar in Japanese in Okinawa, Japan, Chinatsu translated the seminar materials from English into Japanese and interpreted for speakers during the seminar.
Her experience at the seminar made Chinatsu realise that she would be able to do more than just translate. Sebastien suggested, "Why don't you teach a Japanese course for Japanese people directly, instead of just interpreting?" Encouraged by this, Chinatsu started training to become an official NLP trainer certified by The American Board of NLP (ABNLP).
Chinatsuʼs career in Bangkok was thriving but when one of her main clients became bankrupt in March 2013, it shook the business to itsʼ core. This single event, which occurred just as she was reaching the peak of her success, plunged her into rock bottom. Due to this experience Chinatsu lost her confidence and, overwhelmed, she could not function normally. Her business could no longer function as a company, and she was overwhelmed by a flood of complaints from clients. She became so paralyzed by fear that she couldn’t even open emails or answer the phone. Trust in anything—or anyone—completely vanished. As a result, she lost her career, her reputation, her health, and her finances. She recalls, “I lost my sense of self so completely that I genuinely thought I could end my life.”
In September of the same year, her weakened immune system, drained by emotional exhaustion, succumbed to a severe case of Dengue Fever. Her condition became so critical that her Dr. warned her to expect the worst. At that point, Chintsu truly felt she lost everything, even her will to live.
She survived because of the support from her true friends in Bangkok. They were there when she had thought she was alone. They gave her the financial, emotional and even physical support she needed to recover.
Surrounded and supported by her friends Chinatsu gradually recovered from her illness. At the beginning she could only stand for less than ten minutes at a time. It took her a year to regain 80% of her strength and even longer to recover completely.
When Chinatsu was finally ready to return to work, Sebastien suggested that she should become a professional NLP coach and trainer. He believed she would be able to help others and truly understand their feelings after what she had gone through. Chinatsu learned a lot from her experience. She understood how fast a successful life can go downhill and how a stressful situation can make people feel isolated. Chinatsu was determined to use this hard won knowledge to help others. She knew that her life purpose was no longer a career in finance but in NLP. She decided to do her very best to focus on helping people and on contributing to society.
In 2015, she became independent and established her current company, NLP Coaching Association, in Singapore. In 2020, she completed the five-year Master Trainer program of The American Board of NLP (ABNLP), considered the most rigorous in the field. Chinatsu became one of fewer than 25 certified Master Trainers worldwide at the time. As of 2022, her clients span over 28 countries, and she is literally active on a global scale.
While she covers everything in NLP, her sessions and seminars are specialised in;
- ・Life Coaching - How to make your dreams come true.
- ・How to create the best life plan from a financial perpsective.
- ・Business coaching, including effective and presentation and sales skills.
- ・Executive coaching focusing on management
All sessions and seminars aim to teach how to live your life in full through NLP.
In her spare time, she focuses on her inner peace on enjoying and appreciating nature.
