In Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the naïve Mr. Smith yields the Senate floor out of courtesy to a colleague, In doing so he loses his ability to debate on his legislation to prevent graft and corruption,  Mr. Smith learned the hard way about the importance of knowing procedural rules. Officers and members of boards and and associations need to know the rules of order to achieve their goals and help their enterprises succeed. Our expertise includes:

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Dr. Gillmeister has served as legislative advocate, committee member, parliamentarian, and consultant to association members seeking to achieve policy objectives in meetings for more than 25 years.

Dr. Gillmeister has served 15 years on his local school committee (Massachusetts calls school boards school committees). In his service, he has served as Chairman of the Bylaws and Policy Committee, Chairman of the Turf Field Building Project, and as a member of the Regional School District Agreement Committee which was charged with revising the five-town Regional School District Agreement. He also provided parliamentary trainings for the school committee.

As President of Call To Order Governance Services, Dr. Gillmeister served as parliamentarian for National Association of Nurse Practitioners, the National Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus and many other organizations. The Massachusetts Association of School Committees engaged him to conduct parliamentary trainings from 2012 through 2019. He has also worked with many school boards throughout the country.

He currently serves as parliamentarian consultant to a national organization to train state legislators throughout the country in legislative procedure.

He also has served as the Town Moderator for the Town of Brookfield, MA since 2020.



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William Gillmeister, Ph.D.
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