Brief Bio of Michael J. Kelleher, Ph.D.


 Michael Kelleher is the second child of a family of seven boys and two girls and grew up in Washington State. After quarterbacking his high school football team and playing point-guard for the basketball team he went to the University of Notre Dame to study chemistry. Immediately after graduation he taught math and sciences at the Heights School in Washington, D.C. and, during the summer, ran leadership programs for the youth in the D.C. area. In September of 1975 he went to Africa to pursue doctoral studies in chemistry. He remained in Nigeria twenty three years teaching chemistry in the universities and setting up programs of “Leadership Training through Character Development” for junior high, high school and university students. Training in the virtues formed the basis of these programs.

Upon return to the United States in 1998 he was invited by Wood Rose Academy in Concord, California to develop a virtue training program for the school. For the past nine years he has spent every Wednesday during the school year giving virtue seminars to the students in the various grades. During this period he was also invited to help set up virtue training programs at St. Stanislaus Elementary School in Modesto, California and St. Andrew School in Helena, Montana. In addition he has given numerous seminars on virtue training of children to parents up and down the West Coast from Los Angeles to Seattle. He travels monthly to Seattle to assist a group of home-schooling parents in the integral education of their children through a program that entails the virtues, Christian philosophy, and sports. He also stays abreast with chemistry by teaching a course in the Bay Area colleges each semester. He strongly believes that the future health of the society will depend on the quality of each individual family and its ability to form virtuous young men and women who love God and are committed to play a role in improving the society.