Josh Pritchard PhD
Josh Pritchard, PhD

Recovering professor.
Behavior scientist.
Entrepreneur.

I have been in behavior analysis since 2000 — first in the clinics, then running university programs, then back out to run companies. What holds my attention now is the unglamorous half: what it takes for good behavioral science to survive contact with payroll, payers, and a Tuesday morning.

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Josh Pritchard seated on a leather couch in front of a wall of bookshelves, reading.
Orlando, 2019
Cumulative record of Josh Pritchard's career, 2000 to 2026 A stepped rising line with one step per dated milestone, listed in full beneath the figure. Dashed vertical lines mark three phases: learn and practice, academy, and build. LEARN & PRACTICE ACADEMY BUILD 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2000 — Enters the field 2006 — JKP Analysts 2008 — First solo paper 2009 — NV licensure act 2010 — Begins teaching 2013 — Lodestone Academy 2014 — Chairs FIT hybrid MA 2015 — Founds Factari 2016 — Program Director, SIU 2018 — OBM: The Essentials 2020 — President, FABA 2021 — Founds ACT 2022 — Canberra 2024 — Returns to the US 2026 — Factari CoOp Enters the field JKP Analysts Founds Factari Founds ACT Factari CoOp CUMULATIVE MILESTONES
  1. 2000Enters the field
  2. 2006JKP Analysts
  3. 2008First solo paper
  4. 2009NV licensure act
  5. 2010Begins teaching
  6. 2013Lodestone Academy
  7. 2014Chairs FIT hybrid MA
  8. 2015Founds Factari
  9. 2016Program Director, SIU
  10. 2018OBM: The Essentials
  11. 2020President, FABA
  12. 2021Founds ACT
  13. 2022Canberra
  14. 2024Returns to the US
  15. 2026Factari CoOp
Fig. 1 — cumulative record, one step per milestoneDashed lines are phase changes
What I do

Three things, and they are the same thing

Behavior analysis is a science of what people actually do. That applies to a four-year-old learning to ask for help, and it applies to a company of two hundred people trying to hold a clinical standard.

Build

Companies that deliver the science

Factari, an infrastructure venture for behavioral-science entrepreneurs, and Adventure Child Therapy, an ABA provider operating in Colorado and Oklahoma. Before those, JKP Analysts and Lodestone Academy.

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Advise

Owners, operators, and the stuck middle

Organizational behavior management applied to real companies: performance systems, turnarounds, and the operational questions that decide whether a clinical practice survives its own growth.

How I work with owners
Write & teach

Thirty-five papers and one stubborn book

Peer-reviewed work on verbal behavior, OBM, supervision, pay equity, and licensure — plus Organizational Behavior Management: The Essentials, co-edited with Byron Wine.

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35+published papers, chapters and reviews
6companies founded or launched
3university programs built or led
2000the year he started
For clinical teams

One more set of eyes on a stuck case

The Quick Review Consult is a short outside observation — clinic, home, or school — written up and handed to the consulting team who own the behavior plan. I do not take the case and I do not write the plan. Your clinicians get something concrete to build from.

How the Quick Review works
The thesis
The limiting factor on behavioral science is not the science. It is the infrastructure required to deploy it — and infrastructure can be shared.
The book

Organizational Behavior Management: The Essentials

Edited by Byron Wine and Joshua K. Pritchard · 2018 · Hedgehog Publishers, Orlando · ISBN 978-0-9995467-1-0

A working reference for the field, assembled because the OBM literature was scattered across journals that practitioners do not read. Reviewed in Perspectives on Behavior Science in 2019.

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If you own one

You are allowed to just ask someone

Owning a clinical practice is a lonely job with a small number of people who genuinely understand it. I have built four companies, sold one, turned around others, and sat on both sides of an acquisition table. If you are trying to decide whether to grow, partner, hire, restructure, or get out, I am happy to be the person you think out loud with.

There is no pitch attached to that conversation and nothing about it obligates you to anything.

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