Leadership, OBM, and Behavioral Consulting

Executive leadership and organizational development

I have directed a clinical department, co-founded and led a consulting practice, and chair a statewide council by gubernatorial appointment. My doctoral training in leadership and organizational psychology, together with organizational behavior management, gives me a practical way to look at an organization: as a set of behaviors, expectations, and consequences that can be analyzed, improved, and sustained.

Leadership developmentPerspective-taking, systems thinking, and accountability for supervisors, directors, and executive teams in human services.
Leadership development page
Organizational behavior managementTraining, supervision, feedback, and implementation systems that hold up on the hardest shifts.
OBM in human services page

Behavioral consulting and systems improvement

My clinical work is functional, contextual, and trauma-informed, and much of it has been with adults who have intellectual and developmental disabilities and the highest support needs. I design behavior support so that the staff who carry it out every day can succeed, and I do it without restraint.

Behavioral consultingFunctional behavior assessments, behavior support plans, program development, school consultation, and clinical quality review in New Hampshire and Vermont.
Behavioral consulting page
Forensic and high-risk consultationBehavioral risk assessment and community support for adults with IDD who are involved with the justice system or leaving secure settings.
Forensic consultation page

Research, education, and speaking

My research asks what makes leaders in human services effective, and whether the skills behavior analysts study in language and cognition, such as perspective-taking and reasoning across the levels of a system, help explain it. I also teach and train: four years supervising graduate students at Simmons University, a forty-hour Registered Behavior Technician curriculum, continuing education for behavior analysts, and more than four dozen presentations and trainings.

Research and writingThe ABLA 2.0, the Relational Frame Theory of Leadership (RFTL), publications, and work in progress.
Research page
Speaking and trainingConference sessions, staff training, continuing education, and board training.
Speaking page

Training topics

These are the subjects organizations ask me to teach most often. Each can be shaped for direct support staff, educators, clinicians, leaders, or boards.

Teaching drivers on the spectrum

Practical, evidence-based strategies for driver education instructors teaching ASD learners, in the car and in the classroom.

De-escalation without restraint

MOTAB, a program I developed that teaches the person intervening to manage their own behavior and techniques first.

Behavior support with dignity

Trauma-informed, function-based behavior support planning that staff can carry out every day.

Leadership as behavior

Perspective-taking, systems thinking, and what leaders reinforce, drawing on the Relational Frame Theory of Leadership.

Staff training and supervision

Systems for training and supervising technicians and clinicians, including preparing school paraeducators to become Registered Behavior Technicians.

Forensic and high-risk support

Risk management, professional boundaries, incident reporting, and supporting high-risk individuals in the community.

Ways to work together

Executive and leadership opportunitiesSenior roles in human services, behavioral health, and disability services.
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Consulting engagementsOrganizational, behavioral, and forensic consultation.
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Training and workshopsStaff training, continuing education, and board training.
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SpeakingConference sessions and invited talks.
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Board and advisory serviceGovernance and advisory roles where behavioral science can help.
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Research collaborationLeadership measurement, OBM, and behavioral science in organizations.
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