Ray Sanders is recognized as a passionate CEO, a leader of leaders, a white-board aficionado and an innovative growth strategist with a heart for purpose-driven cultures and values-based leadership development.

As a CEO, he has grown multi-million-dollar organizations, led an award-winning financial institution, served in a nonpartisan role with the United States Senate and pioneered international efforts to bring clean water to remote regions of the world.

As an impassioned communicator, Sanders has been the editor in chief of an award-winning weekly news journal, the host and producer of prizewinning radio and TV programs. He is the author of, Pondering the Parables, a reading experience that takes leaders on an insightful journey with the greatest leader to ever live. Sanders frequently shares insights, photos, stories and experiences from his faith, family and world travels through his blog at raysanders.com

Sanders is the founder of Coaching Leaders an executive coaching and business consulting firm that provides CEO’s with valuable input from a team of seasoned business leaders who have served at the highest level within successful multimillion-dollar organizations.

Sanders also co-founded Edify Leaders, a non-profit organization passionate about inspiring and mobilizing leaders who use their influence to impact the world for good by building better lives. Edify Leaders is best known for providing private, confidential, one-on-one, coaching to ministers, AT NO COST to them or their churches.

Nothing thrills Sanders more than spending time traveling the world with the love of his life, his girlfriend and wife, Stephanie. Together they have six children and six grandchildren.