Paul "Paulie" (Paulie Gloves) Gavoni

Ed.D, BCBA, 📚 WSJ & USA TODAY Best Selling Author 🎤 Int'l. & Keynote Speaker 🧰 Director at PCMA 👨🏻‍🏫 Adjunct Professor 📈 Behavior Scientist 🥊 MMA & Boxing Coach

Dr. Paul "Paulie" Gavoni is a behaviour scientist specializing in human performance, coaching, and organizational leadership who has worked across education, human services, and sports for over two decades. In this capacity, he served the needs of children and adults in various positions including COO, Vice President, Director of School Improvement, Leadership Director, Professor, Assistant Principal, School Turnaround Manager, Clinical Coordinator, Lead Therapist, Trainer, Coach, and Behavior Analyst. Dr. Gavoni is passionate about applying Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) strategies to lead and help other leaders establish positive and engaging environments across industries that bring out the best in people. He is a Board Member of the Opioid Awareness Foundation and The World Behavior Analysis Day Alliance.

Known for his authenticity and practical approaches, Dr. Gavoni hosts the Thoughts & Rants of a Behavior Scientist and the Crisis in Education Podcasts. He is also a sought-out speaker at a variety of Educational, Sports, and Behavior Analytic Conferences and co-author of Wall Street Journal and USA Today's Best-Selling The 5 Scientific Laws of Life & Leadership: Behavioral Karma; Quick Wins! Accelerating School Transformation through Science, Engagement, and Leadership; Deliberate Coaching: A Toolbox for Accelerating Teacher Performance (#1 Amazon Best Seller); MMA Science: A Training, Coaching, & Belt Ranking Guide (#1 Amazon New Release), and QUICK Responses to Misbehavior for Reducing Misbehavior and Suspensions (#1 Amazon Best Seller). In addition, he is currently preparing How to Determine if Your Leadership is $hitty. Dr. Gavoni is proud to introduce ABA & OBM to a massive audience through his numerous publications.

Beyond his work in education and human services, Dr. Gavoni is a former Golden Gloves Champion and highly respected striking coach in combat sports. Coach "Paulie Gloves," as he is known in the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) community, has trained world champions and UFC vets using technologies rooted in the behavioural sciences. Coach Paulie has been featured in the books Beast: Blood, Struggle, and Dreams at the Heart of Mixed Martial Arts, A Fighter's Way, the feature article Ring to Cage: How four former boxers help mold MMA's finest, FX's The Toughman, and was recently featured in the Lifetime reality series Leave it to Geege. He is also an author who has written extensively for online magazines such as Bloody Elbow, Scifighting, Last Word on Sports, and Bloody Elbow, where his Fight Science series continues to bring behavioural science to MMA.

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TOUGH TALKS FOR OVERCOMING PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES (W/ ANIKA COSTA)

October 20, 2023 - 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Whether you are a practitioner supervisor manager or leader there are certain conversations we all dread. These are the tough ones that require us to provide some sort of corrective feedback for poor performance or unwanted behaviour. If the right action isn't taken at the right time something regretful might happen as often the  price of not having these tough talks can be far costlier than the temporary discomfort that may be experienced when having them.

With a combined 40 years plus of leading managing supervising and teaching using Behavior analytic approaches Dr. Paul Gavoni and Anika Costa share their experience and expertise in handling what can sometimes be the very uncomfortable position of having to deliver difficult feedback. Entitled Tough Talks, Paulie and Anika’s presentation will provide you with the strategies they have developed for determining precisely when difficult feedback is warranted to correct performance and how to deliver it.

1.5 BACB Learning/Supervision CEUs

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