Robert C. Harris CAE
Chairman, Nonprofit Resource Center

Robert C. Harris, CAE, has managed associations for more than 20 years at an association management company he founded in 1979. He speaks professionally on non-profit issues, association efficiency, risks and liabilities, leadership responsibilities, membership, and staff training.

Among the groups he has addressed are ASAE - American Association of Association Executives, British Society of Association Executives and scores of state and national association boards. He is an instructor for the US Chamber at the Institute for Organization Management, is the author of Association Management 101 Online, is the creator of the "Association Self-Auditing Process" and co-author of Building an Association Management Company. MORE>>

Ralph Holmen
Associate General Counsel, National Association of REALTORS

Ralph Holmen is Associate General Counsel of the National Association of REALTORS, and for nearly 30 years has advised NAR, state and local associations and members on a wide variety of real estate and association law issues, including antitrust, federal election law, First Amendment issues, not-for-profit taxation, land use and environmental law and others. He has authored or co-authored numerous amicus curiae briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court as well as other courts, addressing land use and environmental law, fair housing, commercial speech restrictions, and other issues of concern to the real estate industry.

Mr. Holmen received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, and a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University of Chicago.

Lynn Madison
Owner and Certified Instructor, Lynn Madison Seminars Inc.

Lynn is the owner of Lynn Madison Seminars, Inc., a full-service training and development company devoted to the advancement of professionalism in real estate. Lynn has been a speaker at the NAR convention for over a decade and has spoken to REALTORS in Louisiana, where she has been teaching agency and GRI courses since 1997, as well as conducting seminars in Michigan, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Florida - the list goes on. Lynn also conducts the new member orientation programs for many of the Realtor Associations in northern Illinois on an on-going basis.

A certified CE instructor in over 20 states, she conducts over 200 sessions annually. As a Senior Instructor for REBAC's ABR program, Lynn not only conducts the program nationwide, she is involved in it's development and instructor certification program.

Lynn is ITI certified, a member of the Real Estate Educators Association. She is an NAR Educator of the Year award winner and has received Educator of the Year honors from the Illinois Educators' Association. She was honored with the Realtor of the Year award from her local association as well as numerous Distinguished Service and Key awards from both her state and local associations.

Peter L. Mosca
President, BAK Communications

Peter L. Mosca, President of Howell-NJ-based BAK Communications, has been working with, and for, local, state and national REALTOR associations across the country. His work helps spread REALTOR-ism to key internal and external audiences. His new radio show, Income Property Investment Talk on the VoiceAmerica Network online, is helping shape the national discourse on real estate and property investing.

To receive more info or confirm your attendance, please contact Louisiana REALTORS at 1-800-266-8538.