AUTHOR: Having interviewed 75 couples married 50-plus years across the country, Sheryl P. Kurland is the “voice” of the “voices of experience” – the real-life relationship experts.  Over 4,000 years of marriage insight and advice are com compilated in the coffee-table book Everlasting Matrimony: Pearls Of Wisdom From Couples Married 50 Years Or More.  Not only is Ms. Kurland the only author to have interviewed such a sizable collective of couples married more than 5 decades, she furthered her distinction by interviewing husbands and wives separately.  The couples represent a "sprinkling of America," from all different faiths, ethnicities and backgrounds. Contrary to the colossal number of today’s traditional self-help books, each espousing an analyst’s “how-to” brand to the perfect relationship, Everlasting Matrimony fills an abyss by providing experience over analysis...the expertise of ordinary folks who’ve walked-the-walk and talked-the-talk.

Everlasting Matrimony (BAI Publishing: ISBN 9780165139975) has been cited extensively by an array of media -- radio, TV, magazines and newspapers -- throughout the U.S. (for a complete list, click on MEDIA on the blue horizontal bar).

RELATIONSHIP TRAINER FOR BUSINESSES/ CORPORATIONS: Research shows that Corporate America is losing $6 billion annually due to bad marriages, bad relationships and divorce. While senior management may say "We're not going to get involved in the personal lives of our employees," in fact, they already are. A method of prevention is offering "relationship education" programs on the job. Sheryl's presentation "Relationships: Roles, Rumors and Real-Life" has been featured on ABC World News Tonight and in The Wall Street Journal, and, as a Relationship Trainer, she addresses employees and employers in a variety of formats -- Lunch & Learn Workshops, Corporate Retreats, Breakfast and After-Hours Seminars, etc. Sheryl has also been interviewed by MSNMoney.com.

SYNDICATED NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST: Sheryl writes "Back-Talk!," a newspaper relationship column with a unique twist: couples married 50-plus years answer reader-submitted questions on relationships and marriage, with the husband and wife providing separate responses; in other words, there are two responses/perspectives for each question. Back-Talk! is syndicated by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. The column name - Back-Talk! - is a play on words. Readers benefit from the "time-tested" experience of long-married couples looking retrospectively over decades of lessons learned. The title injects a bit of wit, a slap-on-the-wrist per se, because talking back to our elders is bad manners. Yet, in Back-Talk!, the reverse is prized! "If I only knew back then what I know now" is a longing we all have at times, and Back-Talk! readers benefit by gaining "future" wisdom "today." To read the column, simply Google “Sheryl Kurland Back-Talk.”

SPEAKER: Since “developing strong, healthy relationships” is a topic with widespread appeal, Sheryl has been invited to address a diversity of audiences – corporations/businesses, community organizations, professional associations with memberships of both men and women, college students, religious organizations, senior citizens, and even the deaf using a sign-language interpreter.

Presentations are user-friendly and customized to audience needs/objectives, size, and ages. The goal of all programs is to help participants achieve optimum performance throughout life – be it at home, work, or anywhere else their life journeys take them.