Olivier Masselot

My journey

1. A first life: learning to listen

   I began my adult life in Parisian recording studios. For 15 years, I worked with sound, voices and silence. Without realising it, I was learning to decode people — their tensions, their fears, what they say and what they hide.

   That’s where I understood that communication is 80% emotional and 20% words.

   My life as a studio musician →

2. The experiences that changed everything

   At 4, an accident. A near-death experience whose meaning I wouldn’t understand until much later. At 22, a second NDE — and this time, a deep realisation: I wasn’t here by chance, and my life had a purpose I hadn’t yet found.

   These experiences didn’t make me mystical. They made me curious — about life, about the brain, about what makes a human being rise or fall.

3. The first key: NLP

   At 23, I discovered NLP. A door opened. I understood that our behaviours are not our destiny — they’re programs, and programs can be rewritten. This was the beginning of a long quest to understand how we really function.

4. The trial that accelerated everything

   At 47, the ground gave way. Leukaemia. Everything I had learned about resilience, I now had to live from the inside — stripped bare, without a safety net.

   Paradoxically, this was the most powerful catalyst of my professional life. As soon as I recovered, I trained as a coach — because I now knew, in my bones, what it costs to go through a crisis without the right tools.

5. Neuroscience, then Transurfing: the missing pieces

   At 48, I trained in applied neuroscience — the Neurocognitive and Behavioural Approach (ANC) developed by Dr Jacques Fradin. Everything I had lived through and intuitively understood finally found a scientific framework. Neuroscience became my compass.

   At 49, Tanya Sakovich offered me the opportunity to translate and represent Transurfing throughout the French-speaking world. I wasn’t expecting to discover a model based on quantum mechanics that would so powerfully reconnect the puzzle of how we create our reality — consciously or unconsciously.

   I recognised everything I had been able to deduce from my near-death experiences. Like an obvious truth that gently settled into my life to light the way.

   From that point on, everything began to crystallise. From NLP to neuroscience, from Transurfing to my hands-on coaching experience — I started creating my own tools and my own approaches.

6. The R.E.A.L. Adaptive Process™: the synthesis of everything

   The R.E.A.L. Adaptive Process™ is the culmination of this journey. It’s not just another tool — it’s the synthesis of everything I’ve lived through, learned, tested and refined over the years.

   The R.E.A.L. Adaptive Profile™ measures your adaptive intelligence across 24 key competencies, reveals your strengths and blind spots, and charts a concrete path out of autopilot. It’s the tool I wish I’d had at 47, lying in that hospital bed.

   Since then, the principles of Vadim Zeland have informed all my work — primarily to help my clients realign with their deeper identity. Thank you, Vadim, and thank you, Tanya, for this invaluable gift.

7. Today

   Father of 4 children, I continue to develop the R.E.A.L. Adaptive Process™ as well as the Neurosensory Approach and the Neurosystemic Approach — two complementary tools for transforming individuals and organisations from within.

   I also support R.E.A.L. certified professionals, as well as coaches and consultants, in developing these tools to better guide their corporate clients.

   I run the Neurosensorial Institute, train coaches, work with executives, write, and speak at conferences. Not to be right — but to be useful.

See also: music, golf, businesses

My approaches

To drive transformation, I work on two levels.

4 levers of transformation