SETH D. EISENBERG
President & CEO
PAIRS Foundation

Seth Eisenberg is President and CEO of PAIRS Foundation, a leading national TRAINER, and Project Director of the federally-funded PAIRS Relationship Skills for Strong South Florida Families grant project.

Since first joining PAIRS in 1995, Eisenberg has trained more than 1,000 instructors nationwide who are actively involved in efforts to strengthen families, couple 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 and piloting intensive multi-lingual educational programs for diverse communities, including low-literacy, economically distressed, and others facing unique relationship transitions, such as returning from combat deployment, adoptive couples, and reentry to the community after incarceration. He has delivered classes to thousands of participants, from high school students to couples and singles in all stages of relationship, and is spearheading PAIRS efforts to develop and cost-effectively deliver highly effective, research-validated relationship skills programs over the Internet.

Eisenberg is co-author of PAIRS Essentials (2008) and First Family Essentials (2009), research-driven skills building curricula that includes innovative tools and technology to enhance communication, emotional understanding and expression; deepen empathy, bonding, and compassion; and expand options for navigating conflict; co-author of TEAMS (2000), an educational program designed to produce breakthroughs in workplace productivity, collaboration, retention and similar measures in visionary enterprises; a contributing author of Building Intimate Relationships (2001); and senior contributor in a range of other relationship building programs, including: PAIRS For Life (2009), PAIRS Passion Playbook (2009), PAIRS Contracting Workbook (2009), PAIRS for PEERS (2008), and For Our Future, For Our Family (2007).

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. In that capacity, he served as a member of the prestigious Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations.

He is a past president of Junior Achievement, a nationwide economic education program serving hundreds of thousands of high school students, and former vice president of USTrading Corporation. He also served as editor of COMMUNITY newspaper for two years and as a reporter covering Capitol Hill for Washington Radio and Press Bureau. He is the former At-Large chair of the National Writers Union and elected regional official of the United Auto Workers Technical, Office, and Professional Division. As an undergraduate student at Indiana University, Eisenberg helped develop innovative programs to combat the influence of neo-Nazi and radical Islamic organizations on U.S. college campuses, founding the university's Israel Public Action Committee that became a model for programs nationwide. He also served as a member of the national secretariat of B'nai B'rith.

In 2006, Eisenberg's grant proposal was selected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) for nearly $5 million in federal funding over a five-year period. Eisenberg also developed guidelines for partnerships with more than a dozen other national multi-year projects funded by DHHS.

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 (www.dcwfoundation.org), the Israel Voices Project (www.israelvoices.org), which he co-founded in 2006, and 411-KIDS, a volunteer organization he established to help homeless youth living on the streets of South Florida.

Eisenberg's work and interests have been widely featured in the media, including interviews, appearances, articles and letters in: New York Times, Jerusalem Post, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Miami Herald, Boston Herald, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Charleston Gazette, San Diego Union-Tribune, Omaha World-Herald, Associated Press, Orlando Sentinel, Toronto Star, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, Tampa Tribune, Times of London, Haaretz, ABC-TV, NBC-TV, MSNBC and many others.

Eisenberg, his wife, Stephanie, and three sons, Alexander (1989), Michael (1992) and Zachary (2009), live in Weston, Florida. His hobbies include tennis, chess, photography, sports, and technology.

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