Ricki Garrett and Bob Harris

Ricki Garrett, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Mississippi Speech-Language-Hearing Association and a speaker/trainer. She can be contacted at rickigarrett4@gmail.com or 601-940-6383.

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.

Articles by Ricki Garrett and Bob Harris

• Bullies in the boardroom

  Wednesday, November 15, 2017

  Joining a board should be an honor. It is an opportunity to use leadership skills and tact to advance a shared mission. The boardroom environment should be a place of respect among peers. Yet some associations deal with the "boardroom bully."