Over the past two decades, Michael and Victoria Landers have made a lasting impact across Massachusetts, combining professional leadership with a deep commitment to faith, family, education, and community engagement.

Together, they represent a unique partnership of service: Michael as a nationally recognized wealth advisor and chairman of the board at Lexington Christian Academy in Lexington, and Victoria as an attorney-turned-educator who now serves as Executive Director and Head of School at New Covenant School in Arlington.

While their careers have taken different paths, both have been driven by a shared mission of helping others discover purpose, steward resources wisely, and raise the next generation with strong character and faith. 

For Michael and Victoria Landers, leadership is not measured primarily by titles or professional accomplishments. Instead, it is rooted in stewardship and biblical duties.

Victoria has helped guide New Covenant School through some of the most challenging years in modern education while helping shape its vision for the future. Michael has spent decades helping families identify purpose beyond wealth while also serving in governance roles that support Christian education throughout the region.

Their influence extends beyond their professions. Together, they have helped plant churches, mentor young couples, support Christian education initiatives, and raise four children while navigating many of the same challenges that families across the Commonwealth face.

Victoria's story begins on Massachusetts' South Shore, where she was raised in a devout Catholic family. Her father was one of nine children, and faith played a central role in family life.

"I really remember feeling the presence of God as a young child, crying out to him on my knees in church, just pouring out my heart to him and seeking him," she recalled.

A student at Thayer Academy in Braintree, Victoria developed an early passion for travel and global engagement. An award-winning essay earned her an opportunity to travel to the former Soviet Union, visiting Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and parts of Russia.

"It opened my eyes," she said. "I really felt like God was moving me to have a heart for the nations then."

She later attended the University of Miami before spending time working in Europe. While living in Hungary, she experienced what she describes as a transformative renewal of faith.

"I really became born-again (Christian) post-college in those sweet, formative years where I was really seeking God," she said.

Returning to Massachusetts, Victoria attended Suffolk University Law School and began a legal career that included judicial clerkships and work in litigation, elder law, business law, and real estate.

Michael's upbringing shared many similarities. Raised in Norwell, Massachusetts, he also grew up in a faith-centered Catholic home and attended Providence College.

"I grew up in a home where faith was very important," he said.

After college, Michael entered the financial services industry, initially drawn by the opportunities and prestige associated with the profession. But a life-changing health crisis transformed his perspective.

While engaged to Victoria, Michael suffered severe complications from salmonella poisoning that temporarily left him unable to work and partially paralyzed in his arms.

"When you're paralyzed in both arms, you're 27 years old, and your entire future has gone dark.  Everything changes," he said.

This experience became a turning point.

"I got into my profession for all the wrong reasons, and He kept me in it for all the right ones," Michael said of God's work in his life.

The crisis also altered the couple's plans. Originally intending to wait two years before marrying, they accelerated their wedding plans and married in Boston in November 2001.

"Our plans were not His plans," Victoria said.

Those early years would shape much of what followed.

Today, Victoria leads New Covenant School, a Christian educational institution that recently completed its 40th year of operation. The school combines academic rigor with intentional spiritual formation, seeking to equip students to become servant leaders grounded in biblical truth. 

New Covenant School serves more than 100 students from over 10 school districts and 30 churches across Greater Boston.

"What makes New Covenant School unique is our distinct approach to character and spiritual formation," she said.

Students participate in daily chapel, Scripture study, worship, reflection, and hands-on learning opportunities that connect faith with practical service.

The school has also become a leader in educational innovation at the elementary level. Through partnerships with national leaders in invention education, students engage in problem-solving projects designed to address real-world challenges.

"We are training up children to have the mind of Christ, but to see themselves as problem solvers in this broken and hurting world," Victoria said.

Meanwhile, Michael continues to serve families through his work with an ultra-high-net-worth advisory practice recognized among the nation's top-performing teams. Yet he describes his role in terms that extend far beyond financial management.

"It's less about money, and it's more about purpose," he said.

Michael also serves as chairman of the board at Lexington Christian Academy, a role he has held for three years.

Lexington Christian Academy is a day and boarding school located in Lexington, Massachusetts, serving approximately 360 students in grades 6 through 12.

Michael frequently works with families to identify shared values, establish charitable goals, and create mission statements that unite multiple generations around common purposes.

"When you have this level of wealth, you can't take it with you," he said. "So what are you supposed to do with it?"

The Landers' professional accomplishments, however, cannot be separated from their family story.

The couple has raised four children while navigating financial uncertainty, health challenges, and the demands of balancing career ambitions with family responsibilities. During one season, Victoria stepped away from her legal career to focus on raising their children, whom she educated and discipled during their formative years.

"I had four children in seven years," she said. "There was a long period of like 20-plus years of just kind of grinding it out.”

At the same time, Michael was building his career amid significant economic upheaval.

"We could have saved a lot of money by not choosing Christian education, but we saw the fruit in our kids," she said.

Looking back, both see God's faithfulness woven throughout every challenge.

"God answers prayers," Michael said. "I've been given enough examples in my own life where He's taken me out of some pretty dark moments."

That perspective continues to guide their work today.

Their story is ultimately one of faithfulness: to marriage, family, calling, and the institutions they have been entrusted to lead.

As Massachusetts faces ongoing questions about education, family formation, leadership, and community life, the Landers continue to demonstrate how professional excellence and Christian conviction can work hand in hand.