Four companies, three university programs, and one very long apprenticeship
Everything below is either something I built or something I helped somebody else build. The pattern is the same either way.
What I have built
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Factari
FounderAn infrastructure venture for behavioral-science entrepreneurs. Factari exists to build the ecosystem — organizations, shared infrastructure, and capital — capable of bringing behavioral science to bear on problems that matter. ABA is the proving ground, not the boundary.
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Factari CoOp
FounderThe first operating expression of Factari: a cooperative for people starting, stabilizing, or growing an ABA company, so that a clinician who wants to own something does not have to independently reinvent credentialing, billing, recruiting and compliance.
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Adventure Child Therapy
Founder and operatorA boutique, high-touch ABA provider serving families in Colorado and Oklahoma. Small caseloads, senior clinicians, and an operating model built so that the clinical standard survives growth.
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Aspire Early Intervention
Executive Director, CanberraEarly intervention services in Australia's capital. A useful education in how differently a national disability scheme shapes clinical practice.
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Hedgehog Publishers
FounderThe imprint behind Organizational Behavior Management: The Essentials. I started it because the writing practitioners most needed was scattered across journals practitioners do not read, and nobody was going to fix that for us.
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Fit Learning
Launched and opened centersPrecision-teaching learning centers launched in Orlando, Washington DC, Denver, Austin, Kansas City and the Bay Area. Six cities, six versions of the same problem: how to open something clinically serious in a market that has never seen it.
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Lodestone Academy
FounderAn Orlando school and clinic founded for exactly the students other providers turned away — severe behavior, complex histories, and no good options. I built the programming and the staff training.
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JKP Analysts
FounderStarted in a room rented from a church. It became a consulting and services organization working domestically and internationally — program design, practicum development, and remote supervision for candidates pursuing certification abroad — before I sold it.
What I taught, and where
More than a decade in higher education. The graduate students were the best part; the systems work was the part that changed how I think.
Assistant Professor, School of Behavior Analysis
Chair of the Hybrid Master of Arts in Professional Behavior Analysis. Built the program's data-based feedback systems and watched the faculty produce research, awards, and genuinely good behavior analysts.
Program Director, hybrid degree program
Directed SIU's hybrid behavior analysis program and taught in it. Published on mindfulness training for direct-care staff with colleagues there.
Helped build the ABA program
Contributed to standing up behavior analysis training at UCF.
Working together
Most of the work I do outside my own companies falls into three shapes. None of it is clinical service delivery — it is the business around the clinic.
The 30-minute orientation
Free, no pitch. You describe the situation; I tell you what I would do if I were you. Most people leave with two or three things to change this month. Some of them never talk to me again, which is fine.
OBM and turnarounds
I ran a consultancy that specialized in distressed businesses. The pattern is almost always the same: the measurement system rewards something other than what leadership says it wants. Fixing that is cheaper and faster than most owners expect.
The Quick Review Consult
A stuck case, one set of outside eyes, and a written observation handed to the consulting team who own the plan. I do not take the case and I do not write the plan — I give your clinicians something concrete to build one from.
If you are thinking about what comes next
Owners reach a point where the honest options are grow, partner, or sell, and there is nobody neutral to think it through with. I have been on both sides of that table, I know most of the buyers in this field, and I am happy to be a sounding board before you are ready to talk to anyone else. Nothing about that conversation obligates you to anything.