The architect of the World Changers Alliance, James Riddle, is an award winning educator and author whose strategies have changed the lives of thousands. His instructional career began in the U.S. Army where he taught various communications strategies and was an Equal Opportunity Representative and Instructor. As an honors graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso, James began an extraordinary career as a secondary English teacher.
                         James' classes were viewed by many as extremely unorthodox, but amazingly efficient. Commenting on James' classroom strategies, one of his fellow teachers said, "It's like controlled chaos. He turns them on and off like a light switch. Mr. Riddle would be an effective cat herder."  Another commented, "You never really know what to expect from Mr. Riddle's classes. Sometimes those kids are so quiet you can hear a pin drop. Other times they're all screaming, the music is blaring, and you'd think they were going to tear the roof off. Then out of nowhere he just raises a finger, all the kids respond in kind like dominoes, and the class becomes eerily quiet."
                          Although James opposed standardized testing, his students nearly always did well. In his first year of teaching, James was faced with a 69% passing rate for the state standardized test in his grade level subject of English. Using the principles of P.A.T.H., in one year he helped increase the passing rate to 79%. The following year it increased to 89%. The year after that: 92%. In one year in particular, James effectively predicted the prompt to the composition portion of the test. In the week prior to the test, James walked his students through the processes of writing a polished essay for such a prompt. When the day of the test came and the seal of the test was broken to reveal the prompt, students gasped as they saw that it was nearly exactly what they had prepared for the week before! Out of 154 students, only one failed the composition portion. When questioned as to how he managed to do it, James simply responded, "When you understand how things work, and you do things in a certain way, miracle moments like that become a normal part of your life."
                          After five years of teaching, James’ students were enjoying a yearly average standardized test passing rate of 96%. They also received numerous writing awards. James' results caused him to be regularly recognized for his achievements. In his fifteen years in the public school system, he accumulated several awards to include "Teacher of the Month," "Teacher of the Year," and "District Outstanding Teacher" awards.
                Throughout his tenure as a public school teacher, James spent much of his personal time writing, studying the nature of faith and belief, and speaking at various venues. Although he was seen as a devout Christian, he was often troubled by the corruption in church leadership. Between 1987 and 1996 he and his family searched for a church where he could find honest leadership as well as a community of believers who had a healthy tolerance for adverse opinions. 
                        Unable to find satisfaction in any church, James decided he would focus his attention on his personal faith. With the goal of finding sound personal doctrine, James searched the Bible from Genesis to Revelation highlighting everything it says about who we are, what we have, and how we are supposed to live. Then, as a tool for his private devotions, James took every single highlighted text and turned it into a personalized declaration of faith. Under the prompting of his late wife, Laura, and several others, he decided to publish the work under the title, Exceedingly Great and Precious Promises – Personalized. Three years later it was picked up by Harrison House Publishers, and the title was changed to The Complete Personalized Promise Bible. The book evolved into a series that sold over 200,000 copies.
                In the late 1990’s, James decided on a church home, but remained troubled as to the nature of God, saving faith, and many other accepted Christian beliefs. He became increasingly vocal about the necessity of freedom in order to have a meaningful and happy life. His uncompromising belief that the three great enemies of freedom are government, religion, and ignorance, and that all three needed to be kept in check, made him a very controversial figure within the church. James' frustrations came to a head in 2007 when, disheartened by obvious theatrics in a “healing” service, he stood to his feet and said, “This ain’t it,” then walked out of his church never to return.
                Over the next year, James was invited to speak in a few more churches, only to have his ideas rejected by church leadership as being too “new age,” or "too much science and not enough Bible." In his final “church teaching” James rationalized that if hell is real, there can be no joy in heaven, for how could anyone be filled with joy knowing that a loved one was suffering eternal torture? This kind of reasoning was not well received by the majority of the congregation. Therefore, instead of igniting a firestorm, James decided it was more prudent for him to pursue a more secular public speaking career.
                Since that day, James has focused most of his public speaking on the scientific basis for belief and how to reprogram personal paradigms to achieve success and happiness in life.  He claims that his faith in God is exponentially more solid than it has ever been, though he keeps it out of the public eye. When James was asked about his personal faith and why he left the church, he responded:

                       "The vast majority of our belief systems are programmed into us. It doesn't matter if those beliefs are religious, or what we believe about ourselves personally; very little is based upon rationality. The danger of church programming is that it propagates separatism. We have thousands of churches with no two alike. People basically go to a house of worship to be told by a single individual what they should believe. In most cases, if you question the pastoral authority you'll be ostracized or even excommunicated. When I saw what the Charismatic Christian Church did to Bishop Carlton Pearson when he came out with the Inclusion message, I knew what I had to do. I would spend my life teaching people how to break free from the programming; I would set the captives free! I agree with individuals such as Governor Jesse Ventura who say that organized religion is a sham. It doesn't bring you close to God; it drives you away from God. Governor Ventura and I are very different in our religious beliefs. He is an athiest, and I have an unwavering belief in God. However, the only thing that can separate us is intolerant dogmatism - his, mine, or both. I don't know if you know much about Jesse, but I would much rather be his friend than his enemy. Therefore, I choose to respect and value his opinions. Not only that, but I choose to protect his right to have those opinions and encourage him to express them freely. That is the way a truly civilized society should act. In its essence, it is the key to world peace. Our forefathers got it right when they said that we have inalienable human rights that are a part of our very nature and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I believe that God's desire for you is to have a happy and fulfilling life. I also believe that the only way to achieve this is to live a life centered in unconditional love and individual freedom. Furthermore, It is my sincere belief that the enemies of these are enemies of the Creator who ordained them."

                        James still maintains that the three great enemies of freedom are government, religion, and ignorance, and sees the “Declaration of Independence” and the “United States Constitution” as being two of the most important documents in the history of mankind. In April 2013, James wrote the 2013 Declaration of Independence as a petition to the government to return to the principles of freedom on which the United States of America was founded.