Diane Sollee, MSW, is founder and director of the
Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education, (CMFCE) and director of the annual Smart Marriages/Happy Families® conference and of www.smartmarriages.com. Before founding CMFCE in 1996, Sollee, a marriage and family therapist, spent ten years at the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) as Associate Executive Director for Professional Education and Public Information. She is an AAMFT Fellow, member of the Family Therapy Academy, and recipient of the AAMFT President’s Award; the 2002 American Counseling Association (ACA) Don Dinkmeyer Social Interest Award; the 2003 Recognition Award from the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers (NACFLM); the 2006 California Marriage Champions Award; and the 2006 Smart Marriages Impact Award. She serves as a consultant to national, state and community leaders and appears regularly in the media as an expert on marriage education and marriage strengthening initiatives.

Contact: Diane@smartmarriages.com • 202-362-3332

• An Optimistic View of the Future of Marriage - Opening Address to Communitarian Conference on Pro-Family Policy
• A Born Networker - Diane Sollee has put marriage education on the map - Psychotherapy Networker
• Interview - 1/26.2007, Rockefeller Institute Roundtable
  
• We've been operating with terrible information. That's all about to change. - Press release Smart Marriages® Conference
• Are You Smart Enough to Have a Smart Marriage® - Playback interview & ten tips
• Ten Smart Marriages® Tips - tips
• Love Lessons and Daily Temperature Reading Skills - from the Smart Marriages Conference
• Today's Groom Asks Diane Sollee - 2006
  
• School and Youth Programs: The Case for Skills -IAV Conference, NY
• Do You Know What It Means to Be Married? Interviewing Diane Sollee
  
• Read Diane's women.com "Dr Romance" column
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If people know better, they'll do better. - Maya Angelou

We should be giving our knowledge away so that it can really be of use to
people in improving their lives. We shouldn't be hoarding what we know to protect our economic
self-interests. - George Albee, former American Psychological Association president

I hear babies cry,
I watch them grow,
They’ll learn much more
Than I’ll ever know,
And I think to myself,
What a wonderful world. - Bob Thiele, lyrics

There Are Many Things In Life That Will Catch Your Eye,
But Only A Few Will Catch Your Heart... Pursue Those. - Unknown

There’s an old Chinese saying: “If we don’t change the direction we’re headed,
we’ll end up where we’re going.”

Marriage is the foundation of the family and the family is the foundation of society: if we
strengthen marriage, we strengthen the family, we strengthen the children and we
strengthen the community. If your goal is to help improve the world, marriage is as good
a place as any to start. - Diane Sollee, Grand Rapids Family Summit, 1998

When it comes to marriage, we've been operating with good intentions,
but terrible information. All that's about to change. The research shows
anyone can learn how to have a Smart Marriage®. Welcone the new era as we
move out of the marital "dark ages" and into the Marriage Renaissance!
- Diane Sollee, 1999 Smart Marriages Conference

My grandmother had three plaques on her kitchen wall:
"It could be worse."
"It's a great life - if you don't weaken." and
"We get too soon oldt, and too late schmardt."
I think this last one must be where I got the idea for "Smart" Marriages®. The hope is to
help our youth get schmardt without having to learn the hard way - through
their own terrible marriage mistakes.
Diane Sollee, smartmarriages.com

We CAN do it if we -
Care more than others think is wise.....
Dream more than others think is practical.....
Expect more than others think is possible......
And, row like crazy. Grab an oar! - diane sollee

Click for a collection of "marriage quotes".

Smart Marriages Conference Registration desk, Diane Sollee, Aaron Larson, Mark Swann - Atlanta, 2006.