Seth Eisenberg is President and CEO of PAIRS Foundation, a leading national trainer, author in the field of relationship skills training, and Project Director of the federally-funded, multi-million dollar PAIRS Relationship Skills for Strong South Florida Families grant project.

Since first joining PAIRS in 1995, Eisenberg has trained more than 1,200 instructors nationwide who are actively involved in efforts to strengthen relationships and improve the well-being of children and adolescents through educational classes that range from half day seminars and weekend intensives to extended multi-week workshops and a semester-long Relationship Mastery Program.

For more than a decade, Eisenberg has played a key role developing, evaluating, refining, and piloting intensive, multi-lingual, evidence-based educational programs that measurably improve outcomes for diverse communities, including low-literacy, economically distressed, and others facing unique relationship transitions, such as preparing or returning from combat deployment, adoptive couples, and reentry to the community after incarceration. He has directly delivered classes to thousands of participants, including elementary, middle and high school students and couples and singles in all stages of relationship. Since 2008, Eisenberg has also spearheaded efforts to develop and cost-effectively deliver multi-lingual, evidence-based relationship skills programs via the Internet and through innovative adaptations of emerging technologies.

Eisenberg’s training in the field of relationship skills education included hundreds of hours with PAIRS Founder Lori Gordon and early personal experiences with leading pioneers in the field of marriage and family development, including Psychiatrist Daniel Casriel and Virginia Satir, whose novel approaches to human connection and sustaining healthy relationships are the foundation of the PAIRS approach. Those experiences, combined with extensive field work with thousands of participants over more than a decade, including distressed couples, adolescents, families, and victims of trauma, helped prepare him to author and co-author some of the nation’s leading multi-lingual, research-validated relationship skills classroom and professional training programs for the public, educators, and professionals, including:

• PAIRS Essentials (2008), a nine-hour launch program for marriage education in Florida, California, and communities nationwide that is delivered to thousands of participants annually, selected in 2009 as Best Practice in Marriage Enrichment by the Veterans Administration.

• For Our Future, For Our Family (2007), a 30-hour curriculum that is one of a select group of programs included in a rigorous multi-year ACF Supporting Healthy Marriages (SHM) study that will be published by MDRC in 2012.

• PAIRS for LIFE (2006), an 18-hour, multi-week skills training program for couples and singles in all stages of relationship combining classroom training with technical reinforcement and graduate programs.

• PAIRS for PEERS (1999, 2008), a ten session skills training program with adaptations for elementary, middle and high schools students designed to foster healthy relationships and responsible decision-making.

• TEAMS (2000), an enterprise-wide training program that enhances workplace communication, team-building, constructive conflict resolution, emotional understanding and literacy.

He is a contributing author to Building Intimate Relationships (Brunner Routledge, 2001) and has published dozens of articles and essays on innovative approaches to relationship skills training. In June 2010, he provided testimony to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support regarding PAIRS Foundation's impact on low-income communities and the proposed Fatherhood, Marriage and Families Innovation Fund.

Prior to joining PAIRS, Eisenberg served as executive director of a New York-based national Jewish organization, working closely with the highest levels of government both in the U.S. and Israel and serving as a member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations. He is a past president of Junior Achievement, a nationwide economic education program serving more than 500,000 high school students, and former vice president of USTrading Corporation. He also served as editor of Louisville’s COMMUNITY newspaper for two years and as a reporter covering Capitol Hill for Washington Radio and Press Bureau. He is a former chair of the National Writers Union and elected regional official of the United Auto Workers Technical, Office, and Professional Division.

Eisenberg is an active member of the South Florida community, where he has served on the Board of the YMCA, chaired the annual Partners with Youth Scholarship and Heroes of the Red Cross campaigns, coached youth athletics, and advised various public and private enterprises, including the Daniel Cantor Wultz Foundation, the Israel Voices Project that documented and addressed the impact of trauma on victims of terrorism, and 411-KIDS, a volunteer organization he established to help homeless youth living on the streets of South Florida.

Eisenberg, his wife, Stephanie, and three sons, Alexander (1989), Michael (1992), and Zachary (2009) live in Weston, Florida. His hobbies include coaching youth athletics, tennis, chess, photography, writing, and technology. He is a frequent contributor to FatherhoodChannel.com.