About

Steven Bolen, PRP is a North Texas based consultant with Decisions Consulting LLC and a Professional Registered Parliamentarian as recognized by the National Association of Parliamentarians for his knowledge of Robert’s Rules of Order. 

Retired Electrical Engineer
Co-Inventor on Patents on Fiber Optic, Battery and Power circuits
Author of “The Coming Dark Age: The Impact of the War to Ban Fossil Fuels”
Author of “Partocracy: A Participant’s Guide to Parliamentary Procedure”
Senior Research Advisor to Congressman Keith Self (TX-03) : Providing Rules and Legislative Advice

His Parliamentarian Work Includes:

•Founder / Partner of ParliGames LLC, producer of Parliamentary Card Games
•Republican Party of Texas Parliamentarian
•Collin County GOP Parliamentarian
•Convention Parliamentarian: Republican Party of Texas State Convention, 2022,2024

•Member of both the National Association of Parliamentarians (NAP) and American Institute of Parliamentarians(AIP)
•President Martha Knowles Memorial Unit of Parliamentarians, Dallas, Texas
— Educational Chairman presenting training for the unit each month.
•Member of Golden Gavel Registered Parliamentarians of NAP and Betty Green Unit of AIP
•Consulting Parliamentarian for local clubs and organizations.
•National Association of Parliamentarians Presentations:
Presented at National Training Conference (Sept 2024) “Parliamentarian Heretic”
Presented at National Training Conference, 2022, “Lessons from the Sidecar”
Presented at National Training Conference, 2022, “Unanimity, Consensus and Consent”
Presented at Biannual Convention, 2021 “Designing Better Meetings using Science”
Presented at National Training Conference, 2020 “Helping Societies in the Age of Pandemics”
•Presented at American Institute of Parliamentarians West Coast Practicum, 2021 “What’s the Emergency?”
•Articles:
National Parliamentarian, Summer 2022, Article: “Return to Normalcy”
National Parliamentarian, Fall 2021, Article: “Defusing Conflicting Agendas”
AIP Parliamentary Journal, Spring 2022, Article: “The Democracy Enablers”
•Mentoring through the NAP Mentorship program
•Former Chairman of Collin County Parks Foundation Advisory Board
•Vice-Chairman of City of Plano Senior Advisory Board
•Author on the Topic of Parliamentary Procedure
•Going beyond parliamentary procedure with guidance in design and planning to help with success in meetings, along with conflict resolution and red teaming exercises.

Steven has retired from a 37-year career as an electrical engineer specializing in Integrated Circuit verification development, with multiple patents to his name in fields ranging from fiber optics to high voltage isolation. He has taught computer languages and engineering concepts to multiple professional audiences, both domestically and internationally, as well as being published in technical journals Bell Labs Journal, Hybrid Engineering, and Lightwave.  He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas.