Ross Jeffries is a student of NLP. He’s still a student of him and calls him his teacher. Bandler is the father of NLP. Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder are legally considered the co-founders according to a court ruling. Neuro-linguistic programming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Check out Bandler on youtube. Guys like Derren Brown and Ross Jeffries use NLP. Ross Jeffries specificially uses it and teaches it to help get women and build better business relationships and such.