High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard Wayne Bandler (born February 24, 1950) is an American author on modern psychological techniques. He is best known as the co-inventor (with John Grinder) of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), a collection of concepts and techniques intended to understand and change human behavior patterns. He also developed other systems known as Design Human Engineering (DHE) and Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning (NHR). Note that there is another Richard Bandler who is an editor of the conference proceedings of several technical conferences on neuro-physiology.