Richard D. Barrett is president of Barrett Planned Giving, Inc., a consulting firm that provides marketing, coaching and telephone donor consulting services to a wide range of nonprofit organizations.  Former Director of Gift Planning for Georgetown University, he combines the experience of establishing that university's successful planned giving program with three decades of banking and nonprofit board membership.  He is co-author of Planned Giving Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide to Success, Second Edition, and is a frequent conference speaker on planned giving topics.  Barrett is a member of the National Committee on Planned Giving, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, and the European Association for Planned Giving.  He is a graduate of Yale University and has taken graduate studies at New York University and George Washington University.