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Dr. Bailey received his PhD from the University of Kansas and is currently Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Florida State University where he was a member of the graduate faculty for 38-years and produced a record 63 PhDs. He is currently Director of the FSU Panama City Masters Program in Applied Behavior Analysis.
Dr. Bailey has published over 100 peer-reviewed research articles, is a past editor of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, and is co-author of Research Methods in Applied Behavior Analysis, How Dogs Learn, Ethics for Behavior Analysts, 2nd Expanded Edition, How to Think Like a Behavior Analyst, and 25 Essential Skills and Strategies for Professional Behavior Analysts, all co-authored with Dr. Mary Burch.
Karen is the Founder and CEO of Special Learning. She started the company in 2010 after learning about the effectiveness of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) juxtaposed against the reality that over 95% of the world did not have access to ABA. As an entrepreneur with over 20 years of corporate experience, she started Special Learning to leverage existing and emerging technology to make quality ABA resources and services available to parents, educators and professionals around the world.
Karen’s entrepreneurial experience includes starting and growing a diversity retained executive search firm specializing in placing women and minority executives in leadership positions of Fortune 1,000 companies. Her investment banking background includes working with various venture capital and private equity companies to facilitate deal flow while representing CEOs of rapidly growing companies seeking to raise equity and debt capital for various middle market businesses and commercial real estate developers. Her corporate background includes various leadership and functional roles in Fortune 1,000 and middle market companies. Her additional entrepreneurial activities include owning and operating high end boutique
She graduated with a Masters of Management degree from Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University. She is a Certified Public Accountant and a recipient of the Elijah Watts Sells Award from the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA), an award granted to less than top 5% of all CPA exam candidates.
John is a senior business executive with a career that spans over 40 years growing and existing businesses in both private and public markets. He possesses a unique ability to spot industry trends that others miss and developing and implementing plans to successfully identify and give dimension to new growth and revenue stream opportunities and to effectively align resources and execute against them. His background spans diverse industries which includes consumer package goods, manufacturing, early education, and digital educational content, and others.
Jon started his career with the Colgate-Palmolive Company in various sales, brand management and senior level positions. After Colgate-Palmolive, he became Chairman, CEO and President pf CoActive Marketing Group, which he led through leveraged buyout and a successful IPO traded in the NASDAQ exchange. He subsequently led CoActive to become a Top 20 marketing and sales promotion agency in the U.S., with 250+ employees and $130m in revenue.
After his departure, he founded Wall & Madison, LLC, a management consulting firm dedicated to assisting start-ups and turn-arounds by providing founders with expertise and hands on support necessary to grow their companies. While with Wall & Madison, John co-founded StarWalk Kids Media, a digital publisher creating eBooks for children served on a streaming software platform. In December 2015, he helped lead a transaction that resulted in Starwalk Kids Media's sale to Isabella Products, Inc.
As a co-founder and Managing Partner of Paley Madison Partners, he is a pioneer in leading one of the first ESOP programs under the Wall Main Street Employee Ownership Act.
Bob is an entrepreneur and mergers and acquisitions executive with over thirty years of business startup, growth and management experience.
He founded Paley Advisors in 2014. From 2002 to 2014, Bob served as one of three Managing Partners at Paley Dixon, Inc., the New York City-based buy-side intermediary and advisory firm, founded in 1979. There, he and partners Sarah Cooke and Richard Paley grew Paley Dixon into one of the top five buy-side intermediaries and advisory firms of its size in the US and Canada.
Previous to Paley Dixon, Bob held senior-level sales and sales management positions at Hummingbird, BrightStar, NetEra and ADP. In the early 1990’s, Bob and partners founded Cable Channels, the cable television electronic program guide software firm.
Bob currently serves as Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of Kensington House Corporation. He previously served as Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of The Salmagundi Club, as Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of the Ali Forney Center and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Peccadillo Theater Company.
Bob holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
This training does not provide CEU.
ETHICS OF ABA ORGANIZATIONS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
For as long as there have been healthcare companies and major funding sources available to foot the bills, there have been companies engaging in billing and healthcare fraud of one type or another. Dr. Jon Bailey and I started doing Ethics Webinars together in 2016. For each webinar, we asked BCBAs to submit questions/scenarios related to the topic we were planning on discussing. Initially, these ethical dilemmas centered around practitioner-based situations, but around 2017/2018, we started to see a shift as these ethical dilemmas became more organizational in nature. I remember a question from a BCBA wondering if the new company policy of mandating a minimum of 10 hours for each client - regardless of need - was ethical. Obviously, not, but this has become a pervasive and common practice these days. Except that the minimum number of hours appears to have increased...
In May 2018, due to the rampant billing fraud perpetuated by ABA Organizations in South Florida, Medicaid put a moratorium on accepting new ABA providers, essentially putting a halt on adding any new service providers. Additionally, they started an audit process for all current Medicaid providers, which severely impacted the ability of thousands of families to receive services. And probably put hundreds of smaller ABA organizations out of business.
With the Ethics of Medicaid Fraud webinar, we began our journey into investigating the dark world of healthcare fraud, which led to insight that PE firms were very aggressively entering our field. Which led me down a rabbit hole of tracking down these PE transactions and eventually, share my finding in the BIG Money: Who’s Buying Who’s Selling Webinar.
By and large, the biggest change that our field has experienced has been the impact of Private Equity coming into our field. With their cookie-cutter approach of buying as many businesses as possible, reducing costs through standardization and "operational efficiencies" with the goal of scaling up with the ultimate objective of selling to the highest bidder, our field has been severely damaged by business practices of these mega agencies. But there is still time to reverse the damage IF the people who make up the field of ABA come together to put back what’s been broken.
This bundle provides a historical perspective on the changes that have been impacting the field of ABA. By understanding where we came from, we can develop industry-wide solutions to begin to reverse the damage caused by organizations focusing solely on financial metrics to taking a more blended approach that focuses on quality outcomes and maximizing enterprise value. Because part of being an ethical organization is to run a sustainable business. This means that a criterion of an Ethical ABA Organization is one that is profitable and can maintain profitability in spite of slight dips in market conditions.
These webinars will provide a historical perspective of what has happened in the field of ABA:
Ethics of Medicaid Fraud (2018)
Ethics of Medicaid Fraud: Q&A with Jon Bailey, PhD (2018)
Ethics of Private Equity in the field of ABA (2019)
BIG Money: Who’s Buying Who’s Selling (2020)
BIG Money: Review of the Data (2020)
Exit Strategies for ABA and Related Health Organizations (2020)
Intro to ESOP: An Alternative Exit Strategy (2020)
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