Bob Harris and DaVina Lara

Bob Harris, CAE, provides free governance tools and templates at The NonProfit Center. He is on the faculty for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and has worked in Amman, Jordan, Tokyo, Japan, Kiev, Ukraine and Minsk, Belarus to help organizations. Bob received “Association Partner of the Year” award from Association Trends Magazine in 2012, and he has authored books on association management. To improve management he created the Association Self-Auditing Process, used by more than 20,000 organizations. He believes that nonprofit organizations should be as efficient as any commercial business.


DaVina Lara

DaVina Lara is the CEO at the Bridge Association of REALTORS® and Bridge MLS located in Berkeley. She has over 26 years of experience in association management. The importance of cutting-edge technology, education, advocacy, and service to community is the center of her organization and keeping her leadership on forefront of the everchanging environment.