LSGurdin Consulting BCBA Series: Behavior Analysts as Coaches – Motivating Staff to Buy-In and Implement Plans with Integrity (May 2, 2025)

For this webinar series, participants will automatically be enrolled in all 8 LSGurdin Consulting BCBA webinars.

May 2, 2025 @ 12:00 – 1:30 pm

Registration closes April 30, 2025 @ 12:00 pm

Speaker

 Lisa Gurdin, MS, BCBA, LABA

Description

Our success as behavior analysts relies on others’ skillful implementation of our recommendations. At a minimum, this requires interventionists and stakeholders to value our approach, which is often not the case due to insufficient or incorrect knowledge of ABA. For school staff in particular, this situation can be extremely difficult to navigate given high caseloads and minimal time for training and ongoing consultation. During this presentation, we will discuss how behavior analysts may consider themselves behavioral coaches who must train, motivate, and reinforce staff for their tireless work with students. To be effective, coaches must establish and nurture relationships with staff, ask for feedback throughout the behavior support process, and design interventions and data systems that are practical and feasible in the particular context. We will discuss how to effectively and efficiently utilize these approaches to boost staff confidence and improve treatment adherence. We will also review staff training literature and offer resources.

About the Speaker

For over 20 years, Lisa Gurdin (she/her) has been working with students, families, and school-based professionals with students from preschool to age 22 with a range of special needs and complex profiles. Ms. Gurdin supports educational professionals through consultation, student evaluations, and staff training. She works collaboratively with parents and school professionals to facilitate integrated supports across settings thereby maximizing behavior change and skill development. Ms. Gurdin also provides parent coaching to help parents implement behavioral strategies to improve behavior, encourage independence, and build stronger family relationships. Prior to starting her own private practice, she worked as the Clinical Coordinator for LABBB Collaborative in Massachusetts. In this role, she supervised a team of BCBAs, provided clinical oversight, managed home-based programming, consulted with school teams on complex cases in area school districts, conducted staff trainings, and provided ongoing consultation to classrooms across the collaborative. Ms. Gurdin is also a Part-Time Lecturer at Northeastern University. Before becoming an ACE Provider, she was the ACE Coordinator for the BCBA Roundtable at EDCO Collaborative in Massachusetts. As an ACE Provider, she coordinates and presents continuing education workshops for local school-based behavior analysts. When she is not working, she is taking care of her three children, ages 19, 17, and 13, and two dogs.

About LSGurdin Consulting CE Program

LSGurdin Consulting is an ACE Provider with an on-demand library on professional development topics including ABA and mental health, social validity, mindfulness, cultural humility, compassionate school ABA, neurodiversity, assent-based treatment, and ABA superpowers. Each event is presented live and also offered on-demand through Behavior Live. 

About LSGurdin Consulting

LSGurdin Consulting also offers behavioral consultation to parents and school teams, school and home assessments, staff training and professional development workshops, educational consultation, and program evaluations.  

Membership Information

Most MPY webinars are available ONLY to current staff from member districts and organizations. Public school memberships include police and fire personnel. Former and retired employees and members of committees, including but not limited to, PTO/PTA, PAC, School Improvement Councils, Health Councils, Drug/Alcohol Councils, and school volunteers, are not considered MPY members.

Event Cancellation Policy

This program is being offered in partnership with LSGurdin Consulting. You will be receiving an email with instructions on how to view the training on Behavior Live. All cancellations or request for information should be directed to Lisa Gurdin at lsgurdin@lsgurdinconsulting.com.