Co-Founder of Relationships Reimagined®
Richard Wallace
Author. Speaker. Educator. Relationship-Development Professional.
Richard Wallace is the co-founder of Relationships Reimagined®, where he works alongside his wife, Nancy Wallace, helping individuals, couples, teams, and organizations strengthen the relationships that influence everyday life.
His work combines relationship education, structured sessions, Profiles, leadership experience, and the Relationships Reimagined® 7 Foundations Framework™ to examine Communication, Conflict, Trust, Intimacy, Finances, Boundaries, and Growth across different types of relationships.
About Richard Wallace
A Career Built Around People, Technology, and Leadership
Richard brings more than 30 years of experience across technology, leadership, digital customer experience, business, consulting, and higher education. His perspective often focuses on patterns, systems, decision-making, and the interaction between people and the environments around them.
Before co-founding Relationships Reimagined®, his career included leadership roles in technology and digital customer experience. He has taught at the university level and completed doctoral study in Information Systems at Nova Southeastern University.
That background influences how he approaches relationships: with attention to patterns, systems, communication, decision-making, behavior, and the ways people affect one another.
Relationships Reimagined®
Richard and Nancy founded Relationships Reimagined® around a simple belief: the ability to build, maintain, and strengthen relationships deserves intentional attention.
Their work began primarily with couples and expanded as they recognized that many of the relational challenges people experience also affect families, friendships, workplaces, teams, leadership relationships, and communities.
Today, Relationships Reimagined® provides relationship-development services for individuals, couples, teams, and organizations through sessions, Profiles, premarital preparation, training, workshops, retreats, speaking, books, and educational resources.
The 7 Foundations Framework™
Richard and Nancy developed the Relationships Reimagined® 7 Foundations Framework™ as a way to examine the areas that influence how relationships function.
Communication
How people exchange information, listen, express needs, interpret messages, and understand one another.
Conflict
How differences, disagreements, tension, and recurring patterns are handled.
Trust
The reliability, honesty, accountability, and confidence that develop between people.
Intimacy
How closeness, affection, emotional connection, physical intimacy, vulnerability, and understanding contribute to a couple relationship.
Finances
How money, financial priorities, decisions, expectations, habits, and responsibilities affect a relationship.
Boundaries
The expectations, limits, roles, and agreements that help define relationships.
Growth
How individuals and relationships develop, adapt, learn, and respond to change.
The foundation tells us where to look. The relationship tells us how to apply it.
The Foundation remains consistent. Its application reflects the relationship being examined. For individuals, Intimacy is applied more broadly through Interpersonal Connection. For teams and organizations, Finances expands beyond money to include Resources, while Intimacy is applied more broadly through Interpersonal Connection.
Working With Couples
Richard and Nancy co-lead couples sessions, bringing two perspectives into the conversation. Richard tends to notice systems, patterns, decisions, and what happens when one part of a relationship affects another.
Their couples work may address communication, recurring conflict, trust, intimacy and connection, finances and other shared resources, boundaries, major transitions, relationship patterns, and intentional relationship development.
Couples can begin with a Couples Foundation Session and continue through Focus Sessions or ongoing Couples Sessions depending on their needs.
Individual Sessions
Richard also works with individuals on relationship concerns, communication, boundaries, leadership, career decisions, personal development, and life transitions. Individual Sessions may be held with Richard, Nancy, or both of them together.
Individual Sessions can focus on a person's relationships with a partner, family members, colleagues, teams, or other important people in their life.
Organizations, Teams, and Leaders
Richard's background in technology, leadership, higher education, and organizational environments also informs his work with businesses, teams, churches, and other organizations.
Areas of focus include:
- Communication
- Leadership and team dynamics
- Conflict
- Emotional intelligence
- Trust
- Boundaries and roles
- Relationship-centered leadership
- Team development
- Organizational relationships
Training and Professional Development
Richard's relationship-development work is informed by professional education and training that includes:
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Levels 1 and 2
- Additional Gottman Institute training on affairs and trauma, and on couples and addiction recovery
- Gottman training in emotion coaching within the parenting and family context
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work program leader training
- PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator and trainer preparation
- SYMBIS (Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts) premarital facilitation
- Certified Master Life Coach
- Certified Emotional Intelligence Life Coach through Transformation Academy™
- Mental health coaching education through Light University
Relationships Reimagined® provides non-clinical relationship and life education, facilitated sessions, Profiles, premarital preparation, and other relationship-development services. Richard and Nancy are not licensed therapists and do not provide psychotherapy, diagnosis, or mental-health treatment. When someone's needs require clinical care or another specialized service, we recommend working with an appropriately licensed professional.
Author
Richard Wallace is a co-author of the books published through Relationships Reimagined®, which focus on relationships, personal development, and the practical work involved in building stronger relationships.
We Said, "I Do," Now What? is a practical guide to the everyday work of building a life together, built around the 7 Foundations Framework™. The Biblical Blueprint Edition brings that framework together with Scripture, prayer, and practical marriage practices. The Clearer Series™ moves from the individual, to the relationship, to the team.
Speaker and Educator
Richard speaks on relationships, communication, leadership, emotional intelligence, technology, organizational relationships, and the changing ways people connect with one another. His presentations draw from decades of leadership and technology experience alongside his work in relationship development.
Richard brings an educator's perspective from higher education to his work with individuals, couples, leaders, and organizations.
Richard and Nancy also host The Relationships Reimagined® Podcast, where listener questions and practical conversations explore the relationships that affect everyday life.
Education
- Doctoral Study in Information Systems, Nova Southeastern University
- MBA in Information Technology, University of Dallas
- BS in Electrical Engineering Technology, Oklahoma State University
Richard and Nancy Wallace
Richard and Nancy work together across much of Relationships Reimagined®, including couples sessions, relationship education, books, speaking, retreats, the podcast, and the development of relationship tools and frameworks.
Their joint work brings two professional backgrounds and two perspectives into the development of Relationships Reimagined®. Nancy Wallace has a dedicated page that covers her own background, training, and work.
Connect With Richard
For sessions, speaking, organizational programs, media inquiries, or information about Relationships Reimagined®: 469-209-1698, RelationshipsReimagined.com, contact@relationshipsreimagined.com.