Ron J. Clark

Programs on Fatherhood, Parenting & Inspirational Programs

A happily married man and father of two. He is a national leader in the field of fatherhood and male responsibility and is often asked to speak at conferences and workshops across the country. He is a successful business man who became involved in the real estate market and currently owns and co-owns several properties. Ron J. Clark possesses several years of experience developing and implementing services for fathers and families. Ron J. Clark is capable of assessing your specific needs and providing your staff with training and consultation as needed. He has provided services that get results for over 200 community groups, and he can do the same for you.

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Nisa Muhammad

Wedded Bliss, Healthy Marriages, turning the Corner on Father Absence in Black America

Nisa Islam Muhammad is the Founder and CEO of Wedded Bliss Foundation, a national initiative to promote marriage in the Black community. Inspired by the Million Family March, she came upon this challenging work while researching an article for The Final Call Newspaper where she is a senior staff writer. She read in the Morehouse Research Institute publication, “Turning the Corner on Father Absence in Black America”, that married men make more money. She asked herself, “Does anyone else know this?” After researching the answer, she found that not many people knew the numerous benefits of marriage, especially in the Black community. That was the beginning of her quest to unearth a wealth of knowledge about the benefits of marriage and pass them on to the community where successful marriages are a wish and a prayer.

“Reviving Marriage in the Black Community” was the company’s debut conference in the Washington, DC area that gathered nearly 200 people interested in learning how to make their marriage successful. Participants engaged in workshops that explored topics such as “Fighting for Your Marriage: Resisting Divorce, Finding Your Soulmate and “Infidelity: Repairing a Broken Promise”. The conference received national press coverage and Wedded Bliss has been asked to bring the innovative conference to New York, Houston and Chicago next year.

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Richard Panzer

Keynote Presentations, Seminars, Staff Training

Director of Free Teens USA, Inc., and president of the Center for Relationship Intelligence LLC. A public speaker and developer of family life educational programs, he has spoken to public officials, educators, social workers, parents? and community groups all over the U.S., and in Beijing, Antigua, Trinidad, Montreal, Toronto, Frankfurt, Istanbul, London, Paris, Prague, Seoul, Sydney, Okinawa, Osaka, and Tokyo.Dr. Panzer is the author of the Free Teens Living in the Age of AIDS/Deciding Your Future multimedia program, which exists in ten languages and has been used in 38 states and many countries around the world, and the Relationship Intelligence curriculum, as well as writer/director of The Real Deal about Love, Relationships, and Marriage and LoveSmart DVD series and the co-author of The War on Intimacy. A graduate of Yale University, Dr. Panzer has been married to his wife, Miho for 27 years and is the father of 4 children. He has a Doctorate in Educational Communication and Technology from New York University.

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Scott M. Stanley, PhD

Keynote Presentations, Seminars, Staff Training

To Dr. Scott Stanley, “PREP” means much more than simply “prepare”. To Dr. Stanley and his colleagues it represents decades of research, development and refinement of the “Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP)” curriculum. PREP a skills and principles-building curriculum designed to help partners say what they need to say, get to the heart of problems, and increase their connection with each other.

As a research professor and co director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver , Dr. Stanley has been published widely in journal articles and book chapters, with research interests including topics on commitment, communication, conflict, confidence, risk factors for divorce, the prevention of marital distress and couple development.

Dr. Stanley has authored or co-authored various books including Fighting for Your Marriage and The Power of Commitment. He is also a co-author of “Within Our Reach,” an experiential-based curriculum for couples, and “Within My Reach,” an experiential-based curriculum for individuals.

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Michele Weiner-Davis, MSW

Keynote presentations, Seminars on Marriage Education

Director of The Divorce Busting Center in Boulder, CO, where she and her clinical staff help clients srengthen marriages and prevent divorce using her solution-oriented, down-to-earth approach to marital problem-solving. Among the first in her field to courageously speak out against unnecessary divorce, Michele is passionate offering couples tools to make their marriages work and keep their families together in her lively seminars. She also teaches those in the front lines - therapists, clergy and lay people how to work with couples to stack the deck in the favor of marriage. Her Marriage Breakthrough and Keeping Love Alive programs are taught by marriage educators in church, military, community and professional settings worldwide. She is the author of seven books including her best-selling, Divorce Busting, The Divorce Remedy, The Sex-Starved Marriage and her latest, The Sex-Starved Wife (2008). Her work has been featured in nearly every major newspaper and magazine and she is a frequent guest on shows such as TODAY, 20/20, 48 Hours, CBS Morning Show, Oprah, O’Reilly Factor and CNN. She and her husband, Jim, are the parents of two children.

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Howard Markman, PhD

Keynote Presentations, Seminars on Marriage & Communication

Markman is a Professor of psychology and co-director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver and a practicing marital therapist and workshop leader. His groundbreaking longitudinal research on the prediction and prevention of relationship discord and divorce, funded for 25+ years by NIMH and NICHD, has produced over 125 journal articles, books and papers. With Scott Stanley, he developed the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP), and more recently the Love Your Relationship Couples Retreats based on PREP. He is the leading marital researcher and marriage educator in the country and is an APA Fellow and recipient of the 2001 Distinguished Service Research Award from Smart Marriages. Markman & Stanley and colleagues have conducted state of the art marriage education evaluation studies of PREP including current ones involving religious organizations and the U.S. Army. He is co-author of the book 12 Hours to a Great Marriage, as well as the best-selling Fighting for Your Marriage. He appears regularly in the media (Oprah, Today, USA Today, etc.). His interests also include the science of prevention, the dissemination of empirically-based interventions to communities and social policy makers, the effects of relationship discord and divorce on mental illness, and the psychology of love.