Susanne M. Alexander and Craig A. Farnsworth

Susanne M. Alexander (not Suzanne!) and Craig A. Farnsworth are relationship and marriage educators, certified by Life Innovations to be PREPARE/ENRICH relationship and marriage coaches, and by FranklinCovey to facilitate The 8 Habits of a Successful Marriage, among other training courses. They are coauthors of Pure Gold: Encouraging Character Qualities in Marriage and Marriage Can Be Forever--Preparation Counts! They facilitate "Both Eyes Open: The Adventure of Relationships" marriage preparation workshops and "Pure Gold Marriage" strengthening sessions for couples internationally with people of all ages. Through their work together, they have developed a passion for empowering people globally to create happy, lasting spiritually-based marriages.

Susanne, president of Marriage Transformation LLC, is a marriage educator, relationship coach, and character coach. Among other training, she completed PREP,Inc.® (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) instructor training in July 2004 to lead PREP-based workshops. She is also a journalist and writer (www.smalexander.com) and has a B.A. in Communications from Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio. Her articles have been published in Marriage Partnership, Strengthening Marriage, Newsweek Japan, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, Crain’s Cleveland Business, and Massage Magazine among others. Susanne is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. In addition to the books mentioned above, she is coauthor of Can We Dance? Learning the Steps for a Fulfilling Relationship and wrote the booklet "What's Character Got to Do with It? Enhancing Sexual Intimacy in Your Marriage" (2004) and was part of an author team that wrote a college textbook, College & Career Success Simplified, published in July 2003. Susanne is a frequent speaker at writer’s conferences, and she co-hosted a talk radio show in Cleveland in 1998-1999. She is a graduate of the Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup) Megabook Marketing University.

Craig, secretary-treasurer and distribution manager of Marriage Transformation LLC, is a marriage educator, relationship coach, and character coach part-time and a full-time market manager for Radix Wire Company in Cleveland, Ohio. He holds a B.A. in Physics and a B.A. in Elementary Education from Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio. He has had technical articles published in a variety of industry publications. He is a member of the American Society of Gas Engineers and serves on the steering committee for the International Appliance Technical Conference. Craig is a musician, playing many types of flutes and the guitar. He sings bass in various choirs, and he has sung nationally in the United States with the Voices of Bahá choir, including in Carnegie Hall.

Certified PREPARE-ENRICH Coaches

www.prepare-enrich.com

Coauthor Team Members

John S. Miller
Coauthor of:
Pure Gold: Encouraging Character Qualities in Marriage (2nd Ed.)
and Can We Dance? Learning the Steps for a Fulfilling Relationship

John S. Miller is a character coach and holds a B.S. in Psychology from Union College, Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1994, John married his best friend, Cindy, a second marriage for both of them. While college honed his writing, research, and intellectual abilities, John considers the best classroom to be real-life experience combined with the quest for truth. He comes from five successive generations ravaged by divorce, so he is an expert at understanding how divorce destroys families.

Within the context of an inherent personal need to find better ways for relationships to function, John has spent 25 years studying character and conflict. He and his wife founded Solving Conflicts LLC (www.solvingconflicts.com) in 2005 to offer their unique system of character assessment. It comes from their own personal use of character to solve conflicts and John’s research into the meaning of character strengths. John and Cindy attribute the success of their twelve-year marriage to this focus. It is John and Cindy’s mission to make this cutting-edge system of character education and assessment available to all people.

Johanna Merritt Wu, Ph.D.
Coauthor of:
Marriage Can Be Forever-Preparation Counts! (2nd & 3rd Ed.)

Johanna Merritt Wu, Ph.D. is an organizational psychologist with a specialization in leadership development, corporate mergers, and teamwork. She leads workshops, including marriage preparation for individuals and couples and marriage preparation facilitator training. She is a coauthor of Marriage Can Be Forever—Preparation Counts! and Both Eyes Open Facilitator Guidebook.

Johanna is consulting with several businesses as well as working as a full-time mother. She was previously Department Chair in Human Resources Management at Franklin University. Prior to this role, she was Cultural Integration Leader at GE Capital, working on mergers and acquisitions. In her five years at General Electric, she was a Quality leader, an HR director, and was involved in organizational development, training, and Six Sigma as a Master Black Belt.

Johanna has served at the Bahá’í World Center in Israel in the Personnel Office and was previously a member of the leadership governing board of the Bahá’í Business Forum for the Americas. She has also served in a number of other Bahá’í capacities locally, nationally, and internationally.

Johanna and her husband, Steven Wu, currently live in Columbus, Ohio, USA, where Steve is a professor of agricultural economics at Ohio State University. They were married in 2000 and are greatly enjoying their first child, Haley Grace, who was born in 2005.