Character Education LLC

Professor Alan Saunders meets with Martin Luther King Jr. 3rd at the Nairobi
River tree planting project in Kenya, March 2009.

Saunders Consultancy offers services in educational training seminars, workshops and conference presentations. The Saunders are well versed in the areas of character education, relationship skills building, character-based sexuality education, conflict resolution, marriage preparation and enhancement, parenting, and leadership training.

Character formation is a lifelong endeavor, impacting and being impacted upon by family, marriage, friendships, and business relationships. Relationships are more important and demanding today than ever before, and to excel in them, we need good character.

We are Alan and June Saunders, a husband and wife team. Our work over the last decade has brought us into contact with some of the finest minds in the character education field. Dr. Thomas Lickona, author of the seminal work on character education, Educating for Character, wrote the Foreword to Cultivating Heart and Character: Educating for Life's Most Essential Goals, which was published by the Character Development Group, one of the premier character education groups in the country. June was a co-author of this book and Alan was production manager. We have been privileged to present on character education and conflict resolution at numerous conferences: the U.S. Air Force Academy's National Character Education Symposium, the National Middle School Association's Urban Conference, the annual Queens High Schools Conflict Resolution conference, and the Association of Teacher Educators annual conference, among others.

We have also worked internationally, giving workshops and seminars in countries through out the world including, Australia, New Zealand, Palau, Samoa, American Samoa, the Dominican Republic, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Hong Kong, China, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Benin, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia. It is through these experiences that we have developed a multicultural approach that can be used in the majority of diverse ethnic and cultural settings and arenas.

Dr. Salvador, Vice President of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Professor Saunders and other educators take a group photo after a workshop they conducted on character education and life skills in the Phillipines, June 2007.

We emphasize universal principles and core ethical values in the leadership training seminars we offer to businesses and companies. We highlight best practices from an extensive array of programs and initiatives that have been used successfully internationally to develop and cultivate positive attitudes and behaviors within the work place. It is through the development of character traits such as mutual respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, caring, honesty, compassion, empathy, commitment, perseverance and integrity that successful relationships can be built.

Because character and healthy relationships skills affect marriage, our character education consultancy includes marriage preparation and enhancement elements. "As I have observed many different couples, I have become convinced that strong marriages are built on the virtues or character of the spouses. In other words, the best way to have a good marriage is to be a good person." - Marital therapist Blaine J. Fowers

Lifelong love is not chemistry. It's not kismet. It's character.