Virginia Satir was born on June 26, 1916 in Neillsville, Wisconsin. She was the oldest of five children born to Oscar Alfred Reinnard Pagenkopf and Minnie Happe Pagenkopf.
She’s globally recognized as the “Mother of Family Therapy”. She was also a prolific author and one of the 3 original models of NLP, along with Milton Erickson and Fritz Perls.
She is also known for creating the Virginia Satir Change Model, which is a psychological model she developed through her clinical studies. This model became especially popular with the change management and organization gurus of the 1990s and 2000s to define how change impacts organizations.