About Anil Dagia

NLP Master Trainer. ICF PCC Coach. ICF Mentor Coach. Creator of Emotional Fitness Gym®. Designer of the world’s first Jenga+NLP+Somatic practices based Emotional Intelligence model.

Author of multiple books on coaching, sales, mindset and emotional transformation.
Business mentor to coaches and independent professionals who want freedom, not just income.

I help people change their inner programming, redesign their career, and build a life they do not need a vacation from — using a unique integration of NLP, ICF Coaching, Emotional Intelligence, somatic processes, sales automation, and business mastery.

Want the full story behind my 17+ years of work in NLP, ICF Coaching, Emotional Intelligence, Business Mastery and Leadership Transformation? Read my detailed About Page.

Who I Work With

People find me when they are at a turning point:

Aspiring and existing life coaches who want ICF coaching certification and real clients
Professionals who want to quit their job and build a meaningful coaching/business career
NLP Practitioners & Master Practitioners who want to go deeper and integrate ICF-level coaching
Leaders who want emotional intelligence, resilience and better decisions under pressure
Entrepreneurs and independent professionals who want to automate sales and scale

They’re not looking just for motivation.

They want clear thinking, powerful emotional tools, practical coaching frameworks and proven business systems.

My Core Domains of Expertise

Over the years, my work has organically grown around a few core domains:

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) – Advanced NLP mastery applied as a precision model of human experience for deep emotional, cognitive and behavioural change.
ICF Coaching – A unified transformation system that blends NLP, ICF competencies and somatic intelligence to create rapid, ethical and lasting change.
Emotional Fitness Gym® – A proprietary, trademarked emotional immunity system that builds resilience using NLP, somatics and structured emotional reprogramming.
Emotional Intelligence - The world’s first experiential EI model combining Jenga, NLP and somatic practices to make emotional intelligence a fun, visual, lived experience.
Mindset & Belief Change - Deep identity and belief transformation using NLP, somatics, EI and my proprietary Belief Discovery Framework that now also powers my custom-trained digital-twin GPT.
Business Mastery for Coaches - Proven frameworks for coaches to build predictable income through offer design, positioning and automated sales engines.

If you’re interested in a structured overview, you can explore my hubs:

NLP Training Hub - NLP Certification & NLP Pathways
ICF Coaching Hub - Everything You Need To Become a Coach
Emotional Intelligence Hub - Everything Emotional Intelligence
Business Mastery Hub - Everything You Need To Become a Business Owner

How I Integrate NLP, ICF Coaching & Emotional Intelligence

Most people learn NLP as a collection of techniques.

Most people learn ICF coaching as a set of competencies.

Most people learn Emotional Intelligence as theory.

I bring these together into a single, integrated transformation system.

In my work:

NLP models help you understand and rewrite internal programming
ICF coaching skills create a structured, ethical, client-led process
Emotional Fitness Gym® and somatic practices help you release emotions from the body, not just the mind
My business mastery and sales systems help you turn your expertise into a predictable income engine

This is why coaches, professionals, and leaders looking up terms like “ICF coaching”, “ICF training”, “ICF accredited coach training program” or “NLP coach certification” often land on my pages and then stay — because they find a bridge between credentials, inner work and real-world results.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) - Practitioner, Master Practitioner & Integrated Expertise

I’ve been known for integrating ICF-accredited NLP training and ICF NLP certification pathways long before it became fashionable.

If you’ve been exploring terms like:

“NLP coach”
“NLP coach certification”
“ICF accredited NLP training”
“ICF NLP certification”

…my work is specifically designed to connect the dots for you:

My foundation as a transformational professional comes from advanced mastery in NLP Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner methodologies. I teach NLP as a precision model of human experience - a structured way to understand how thoughts, emotions, memories and internal maps shape behaviour.

I help individuals and coaches:

Transform limiting beliefs and emotional triggers
Use submodalities to shift states rapidly
Change internal dialogue and unconscious patterns
Resolve identity conflicts and stuck emotional loops
Apply modelling, reframing, anchoring, timeline work, and strategy elicitation
Integrate NLP seamlessly into ICF-compliant, ethical coaching conversations

My signature approach merges NLP with ICF coaching and Emotional Fitness frameworks, creating a clean, powerful, client-centric change technology that avoids outdated or manipulative forms of NLP.

You can see the main NLP programs here:

NLP Practitioner - foundations of modelling, language, submodalities, belief change, emotional state management
NLP Master Practitioner - deep patterning, complex belief systems, identity work and high-level change frameworks

I don’t treat NLP and coaching as two separate worlds. I show you how NLP tools + ICF coaching process + emotional intelligence can create powerful, lasting change in real clients.

Integration of NLP, ICF Coaching, Certification Pathways & Somatics

A large part of my work is helping people navigate the world of ICF coaching credentials and making sense of all the jargon around:

ICF coaching
ICF course and ICF courses
ICF training and ICF coach training
ICF coaching federation and ICF International Coaching Federation
International Coaching Federation certification and related pathways

People frequently search for:

“ICF life coach certification”
“life coach certification ICF”
“ICF coaching certification”
“ICF acc certification”
“ICF pcc credential”
“ACC ICF coach”
“business coach ICF”
“ICF business coaching”

My programs are designed to simplify this path, align it to your life goals, and make sure your ICF credential actually leads to clients, income and freedom, not a certificate gathering dust.

I specialize in integrating NLP Practitioner/Master Practitioner models, ICF coaching competencies, and somatic intelligence into one seamless transformation technology. This integration helps people:

Create rapid but ethical change
Shift emotional, cognitive and somatic patterns
Work at the level of beliefs, identity and nervous system
Achieve long-term clarity and behavioural transformation

This synergy sits at the heart of my coaching, training, emotional intelligence work, and business mentoring systems.

You can see the main ICF-aligned programs here:

Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Fitness Gym®, Jenga-Based EI & Somatic Work

My work on Emotional Fitness Gym® has been covered by mainstream media and appreciated for being:

Deeply emotional
Scientifically informed
Somatically grounded

You can explore:

Emotional Fitness Gym® - My Proprietary Model for Emotional Immunity & Resilience

Emotional Fitness Gym® is my proprietary, trademarked emotional transformation system designed to build emotional immunity—the same way physical immunity is trained in a gym. It helps people strengthen resilience, regulate difficult emotions, and recondition the nervous system using a structured combination of:

NLP-based emotional reprogramming
Somatic regulation tools
Identity-level change work
Behavioural pattern redesign
Deep emotional processing techniques

It is one of the few experiential emotional intelligence models in the world that creates immediate, embodied, measurable shifts without theory-heavy content. This system has been featured in multiple media publications for making emotional mastery accessible, practical, and transformative.

Gamified Emotional Intelligence — The World’s 1st EI Model Combining Jenga + NLP + Somatic Work

I am the first in the world to combine Jenga, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and Somatic Processes into a unified experiential model for developing emotional intelligence. This approach converts EI from “theory” into a fun, visual, tactile, lived emotional experience.

Through this method, participants can:

Physically see the architecture of their inner emotional system
Identify emotional blocks as removable components
Rebuild confidence, clarity and emotional stability
Release deeply rooted emotional memories through somatic shifts
Apply NLP tools to reassign meaning, beliefs and emotional responses

This model has become a signature of my leadership interventions and workshops, celebrated for making emotional intelligence playful, powerful and deeply human.

Mindset, Belief Change & High-Performance Coaching

I work and teach in my courses deeply at the level of:

Identity
Values
Subconscious beliefs
Emotional patterns
Money stories
Inner dialogue and behavioural patterns

Over the years, I have also developed my own proprietary Belief Discovery Framework - a precision method for uncovering the hidden structures that shape a person’s thoughts, emotions and decisions.

This framework is built by synthesizing multiple disciplines including:

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
Logic & Philosophy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Behavioral Economics
Pragmatics
Psycho-linguistics

By bringing these fields together, I help individuals reveal their deepest belief patterns with clarity, accuracy and emotional safety — often uncovering drivers they weren’t consciously aware of for years or even decades.

I have even developed my own custom GPT, trained exclusively on this Belief Discovery Framework, which now functions as my digital twin, replicating my thinking patterns, analytical depth and transformation methodology.

This methodology empowers individuals to build clarity, confidence, emotional stability, self-worth, courage and inner leadership. My belief-change systems combine NLP, somatic awareness and emotional intelligence to help people break lifelong patterns and step into higher versions of themselves.

Business Mastery, Sales Automation & The “Quit Your Job” Journey

For many, the question isn’t “Should I become a coach?”

The real questions are:

How do I replace my job income?
How do I avoid chaotic, desperate selling?
How do I build a predictable, automated sales engine?

This is where my business mastery and sales automation work comes in.

A major part of this thinking is shaped by my training at Tony Robbins’ Business Mastery (Amsterdam, 2017), combined with years of implementing, testing and refining these frameworks in my own coaching business.

Along this journey, people often search for things like:

“best ICF accredited coaching programs”
“ICF accredited coaching programs online”
“career coaching certification ICF”
“ICF acc cost”
“ICF credential cost”
“cheapest ICF certification”

I help you not only understand the real cost of ICF certification, but also how to combine it with a clear offer, automated client journey, and long-term business health.

I help coaches and independent professionals build predictable, automated businesses by teaching:

Offer design and positioning
Client attraction and conversation frameworks
Automated sales engines
Messaging and communication psychology
Revenue stability systems
Leadership and operational foundations

My business mastery work is grounded in real-world implementation rather than theory, helping people transition from uncertainty to predictable income and freedom.

Key programs you can explore:

My Books & Written Work

I’ve authored multiple books to support people who want to think more clearly, feel more deeply and act more powerfully.

You can explore my books here:

These books reinforce my core domains: NLP, ICF coaching, emotional intelligence, business mastery, sales systems and mindset transformation.

Media, Interviews & Press Mentions

My work on coaching, emotional intelligence and Emotional Fitness Gym® has been featured by several respected publications:

For a consolidated, always-updated list of articles, interviews, podcasts and features, you can also visit the Media & Press page.

These external references help search engines and AI systems connect my name with NLP, ICF coaching, emotional intelligence, somatic work and business mastery in a verifiable, third-party way.

Deep-Dive Authority Page

If you want a more technical and consolidated view of my expertise across NLP, ICF coaching and emotional intelligence, you can explore this authority page:

NLP, ICF Coaching & Emotional Intelligence Expertise - Authority Page

This page brings together definitions, comparisons, use-cases and frameworks that I use in my trainings and coaching work.

How People Typically Discover My Work

People don’t always search for my name first.

They often type queries like:

ICF coaching / ICF training / ICF coaching international
ICF coaching federation / ICF International Coaching Federation
ICF acc certification / ICF pcc credential / ICF mcc certification
coaching programs ICF accredited / ICF accredited coach training / ICF accredited coaching programs online
ICF business coaching / business coach ICF
NLP coach / NLP coach certification / ICF accredited NLP training
career coaching certification ICF / best ICF coaching programs
ICF certification cost / ICF credential cost / ICF acc cost / cheapest ICF certification
ICF CCE requirements

Behind every such query is a real human concern: “Will this certification, training or coach actually change my life, career, or business?”

My answer is always the same: Certification is a vehicle. What matters is who you become in the process — emotionally, mentally, financially and professionally.

My work exists precisely at that intersection.

Global Business Mastery Training (Tony Robbins – Amsterdam, 2017)

In 2017, I invested in Tony Robbins’ flagship Business Mastery program in Amsterdam — an elite, intensive immersion designed for entrepreneurs and business owners who want to build resilient, profitable, scalable businesses. This was not a motivational event; it was a deep business strategy laboratory that covered financial mastery, pricing psychology, business model optimization, systems scaling, leadership frameworks and marketing architecture.

I attended Business Mastery not as a beginner, but as an NLP Master Trainer, ICF PCC Coach, ICF Mentor Coach and business mentor who wanted to extract globally proven frameworks that could be adapted for coaches, trainers, consultants and independent professionals in India and across emerging markets.

The insights I gained at Tony Robbins Business Mastery (Amsterdam, 2017) now power much of the strategic thinking inside my programs — from Master the Business of Life Coaching to Business Mastery, Quit Your Job, and the Automated Sales Engine (0–100 Rapid Client Acceleration) system used by coaches worldwide.

This global exposure is one of the reasons my clients are able to design high-value offers, set confident pricing, build automated sales engines, achieve predictable income and transition safely out of their jobs. My business frameworks combine NLP, ICF coaching, Emotional Fitness Gym®, somatic intelligence and real-world business mastery — tested in my own practice long before I teach them.

Elite Leadership & Trainer Mastery (Blair Singer – SuccessGyan, 2025)

In 2025, I pushed my mastery to a global elite tier by completing the Train The Trainer program with Blair Singer (SuccessGyan) in Chennai. Blair Singer is not merely a trainer—he is one of the world’s most influential authorities on leadership development, high-performance communication, behavioural transformation and corporate team dynamics. His methodologies create world-class leaders and world-class trainers.

This program was not about “presentation skills” or learning how to deliver slides. It was an intense, high-stakes leadership crucible designed to forge facilitators who can command rooms, shift group psychology, ignite behavioural change and create breakthrough transformation in any environment—from boardrooms to 500-seat auditoriums.

Inside this training, I refined the ability to:

Lead corporate leadership groups through deep emotional and behavioural shifts
Influence and recalibrate the emotional states of entire rooms
Engineer high-impact experiential learning environments
Decode group dynamics and resolve resistance in real-time
Drive engagement, buy-in and transformation across diverse audiences
Hold and elevate the energy of teams, leaders and large organizations

This mastery now amplifies every dimension of my work—especially corporate leadership training, senior leadership development programs, large-scale experiential interventions, ICF-accredited coach training, NLP mastery tracks, Emotional Fitness Gym® and the world’s first Jenga-based EI leadership model.

Today, I bring a rare and unmatched combination in India: global business mastery from Tony Robbins, elite trainer development from Blair Singer, NLP Master Trainer expertise, ICF PCC coaching mastery, somatic emotional intelligence, and cutting-edge behavioural transformation frameworks. This unified skillset allows me to transform teams, leaders, organizations and coaches at a level that most trainers and facilitators simply cannot reach.

Very few trainers globally—and almost none in India—operate at this depth. This is the level of mastery I bring to every workshop, corporate intervention, leadership program and training room I step into.

My Certificates

A few of my foundational certifications and professional trainings that shaped my journey.

NLP Trainers Certificate - 2010 (UK)	NLP Master Practitioners Certificate - 2009 (UK)
NLP Master Life Coach Certificate - 2009 (South Africa)	NLP Advanced Life Coach Certificate - 2009 (South Africa)
Business Mastery With Tony Robbins - 2017 (Amsterdam)	Train The Trainer With Blair Singer (SuccessGyan) - 2025 (Chennai)