Organizations change their behavior the same way individuals do: through repeated contact with new contingencies, sufficient to produce and maintain new behavioral patterns. The challenge in organizational settings is that the contingencies operating on organizational behavior are more numerous, more complex, and more resistant to manipulation than those operating on individual behavior.
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Dr. Nicholas Weatherly is an experienced professor, academic administrator, researcher, author, and executive with over 20 years of success in leadership and management, both as a senior-level executive and academic. His area of expertise is in maximizing operating revenues and organizational and staff performance by building holistic systems and targeted training programs, linking performance-improvement initiatives to key business metrics, and strategically aligning short- and long-range goals to the organization’s mission, vision, and values. Dr. Weatherly’s achievements in operational excellence come through translating organizational capability and objectives into innovative organization-wide initiatives that maximize growth potential through monitoring KPIs, implementing science-based practices, collaborating with human resources and individuals across all levels of an organization toward a shared goal, working with inter-disciplinary teams that foster diverse experiences and perspectives, and establishing results-focused objectives and timetables. He has a proven record of student development, scholarship, and interdisciplinary collaboration, while also forecasting needs and scaling academic programs in fast-paced environments as market demand necessitates without sacrificing ethics or integrity. An experienced international consultant, coach, and speaker, Dr. Weatherly currently serves as the CEO of Deliberate Coaching International, an industrial safety and leadership consultancy, and is an Associate Professor at Endicott College’s Institute for Applied Behavioral Science. He has taught in academic settings since 2002, serving in various administrative and non-administrative faculty roles, online and in-person with synchronous and asynchronous formats, including recently as the Head of the School of Behavior Analysis at the Florida Institute of Technology. Dr. Weatherly has conducted research, consulted in, and/or served in leadership positions across a number of areas of business and industry including human resources, industrial safety, manufacturing, energy, banking, health insurance, education, and clinical services. He is a sought-after global speaker, the co-author of three books on Deliberate Coaching including Deliberate coaching: A toolbox for accelerating teacher performance, Deliberate coaching: Optimizing teaching and learning through behavior science, and Deliberate coaching: Optimizing business performance through the science of behavior. Dr. Weatherly is an experienced instructional designer, a leader in the area of organizational ethics, and has ample experience in accreditation and regulatory compliance. He has held advisory roles and served on the board of directors for a number of professional associations, advocacy groups, and service facilities including the New York State Association for Behavior Analysis, the Minnesota Northland Association for Behavior Analysis, and the Autism Treatment Association of Minnesota. He is the Past-President of the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts and is also Past-President of both the Georgia Association for Behavior Analysis and the Kentucky Association for Behavior Analysis. He has also worked with the Behavior Analyst Certification Board® across numerous areas including serving as a member of the BACB® Disciplinary Review Committee, as a Code Section Specialist for the BACB’s Code Compliance Committee, as a coach trainer and mentor, and in the development of an ethics coaching system. Dr. Weatherly was the inaugural chair of the Kentucky Applied Behavior Analyst Licensing Board, the first stand-alone licensing board for behavior analysis in the country, and continues to stay active in public policy efforts. Dr. Weatherly received his Ph.D. from Western Michigan University’s Psychology Department with concentrations on leadership, performance management, behavioral systems analysis, safety, and staff training. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management and is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst- Doctoral®.
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