Richard Albertson

Founding President @Live The Life

Tallahassee, FL, US

Richard Albertson is the Founding President of Live the Life, a statewide organization in Florida with offices in Tallahassee, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando, and Panama City. Founded in 1998, Live the Life\'s mission is to strengthen marriages and families. Since then the divorce rate in Leon County has dropped 48.2%, more than double the drop in the Florida divorce rate during the same time. Since launching the Community Marriage Initiative in Jacksonville in 2015, the divorce rate there has dropped 24%. And Live the Life’s Hope Weekends have saved more than 80% of troubled marriages since 2004. Since 2011, Live the Life’s Community Marriage Initiatives have produced more than graduates in relationship and marriage education programs.Richard is Board Chair and co-Founder of the National Alliance for Relationship and Marriage Education. He authored NARME’s charter in 2010, and it has been adopted by community leaders and practitioners from 28 states to date. Florida Governor Rick Scott appointed Richard to the Florida Faith-Based and Community-Based Advisory Council in 2013, and fellow members elected him Chairman in 2017. He previously served as Chairman of the Florida Commission on Marriage and Family Support, and Chairman of the Florida Commission on Responsible Fatherhood, and Board member of the National Abstinence Education Association. Richard is the author of the Start Smart comprehensive premarital program, author of the Champions curriculum for High School Boys, and co-author of the Adventures in Marriage and Hope Weekend curricula.Richard graduated from Florida State University with a double major in History and Political Science in 1985. Richard and Elizabeth Albertson were married in 1988, and they have 5 children: Ashley and her husband Cam, Rachel and her husband Jordan, Chip and his wife Haley, Katie and Kimberly, and two grandchildren: Ardyn Albertson and Judah Richard Mauro.

Florida State University

B.S.