The Medici Effect: Building Interdisciplinary Intersections to Maximize Innovation matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In Building Interdisciplinary Intersections to Maximize Innovation, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Hoosier Association for Behavior Analysis
Take This Course →Including ethics, supervision, and topics like this one. New live CEU every Wednesday.
Join Free →The most groundbreaking discoveries in history are in the collision of diverse fields, perspectives, and cultures. This presentation will introduce participants to the Medici Effect, which posits that creating spaces for intersection amongst fields fosters radical breakthroughs that are unachievable within a single discipline (Johansson, 2004). Participants will explore how progressive innovations arose in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) through the intersections of multiple fields. Participants will be encouraged to develop wide-ranging personal interests, knowledge, and connections to approach complexities with more flexible repertoires to generate novel solutions to problems (Epstein, 2019). We will examine barriers that impede intersectional growth within the field of ABA and discuss strategies for leveraging interdisciplinary skill-building (Behavior Analyst Certification Board, 2020). Interactive exercises will challenge participants to reduce associational barriers to generate creative ideas. At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will have strategies to be a catalyst for innovative growth within our professional community. References Behavior Analyst Certification Board. (2020). Ethics code for behavior analysts. https://bacb.com/wp-content/ethics-code-for-behavior-analysts/ Epstein, D. (2019). Range: Why generalists triumph in a specialized world. Riverhead Books. Johansson, F. (2004). The Medici effect: Breakthrough insights at the intersection of ideas, concepts, and cultures. Harvard Business School Press.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Amy Biography: Amy Brownson, M.A., BCBA Supervising Clinician Life Skills Autism Academy- Lawrence, IN PhD Special Education student- University of Idaho Amy Brownson, M.A., BCBA, is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) and currently serves as a Supervising Clinician at Life Skills Autism Academy. She has been practicing as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst since 2017, working primarily with Autistic early learners. Her clinical and research focuses include developing social communication repertoires in early learners to build relationship-based language skills. She also focuses on building perspective-taking skills with therapists and clinicians to foster empathetic skill repertoires in their care with Autistic early learners. She is currently completing a PhD in Special Education through the University of Idaho. She has participated in the Utah Regional LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disorders) program as a trainee in 2024-2025, collaborating within an interdisciplinary team of doctoral students fusing leadership, research, and clinical practice for those with special healthcare needs. She was also chosen as a LEND Equity Scholar, completing training and research in building equitable systems of care for children and families with special healthcare needs. She has presented as an interdisciplinary team to early childhood educators through IdahoStars on “Inclusive Education Practices Across Developmental Domains”. She has also presented interdisciplinary research at the EHDI (Early Hearing Detection and Intervention) conference in 2025, promoting collaborative family-centered research practices for families whose children are deaf or hard of hearing. Lastly, she has presented to a multidisciplinary team at the PacWest LEND conference on supporting clinicians in empowering disabled parents in neurodevelopmental disorder care.
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