
How Our Online Leadership Science Courses Work
Instructor-Led Online Leadership Science Courses are live, online sessions facilitated directly by Dr. Manny Rodriguez.
Per-Person Rate: $25 per person
Group Rate: $200 flat: covers your entire group of 10 participants
All sessions are conducted virtually. Scheduling is arranged directly through Dr. Manny to accommodate your team’s availability.
Learn the Science Behind Better Leadership.
Focused, interactive, and instructor led online learning for professionals who want practical approaches to leadership, performance, culture, ethics, accountability, burnout, reinforcement, and organizational challenges.
Nine Flagship Interactive Courses
Instructor-Led Courses are live, facilitated group sessions designed for teams who want shared learning and direct conversation with Dr. Manny. If you’re looking for self-paced, topic-specific deep dives you can complete on your own schedule, see our Master Classes →.

Leadership Trauma in ABA
How chronic organizational stress affects leaders, teams, decision-making, and the systems leaders create.
Best For: BCBAs and clinical directors who have experienced — or are currently navigating — high-stress organizational environments, leadership transitions, or workplace trauma responses in their staff.
Live instruction • participant guide • implementation tools • reflection activities

The Reinforcement Trap in Leadership
How leaders unintentionally strengthen avoidance, poor performance, dependency, and low standards.
Best For: Managers and supervisors who rely heavily on approval-seeking behaviors to motivate staff, or who struggle with giving corrective feedback without damaging the relationship.
Live instruction • participant guide • implementation tools • reflection activities

Compassionate Accountability
How to combine empathy, clarity, feedback, support, consequences, and meaningful expectations.
Best For: Leadership teams working to balance empathy with clear performance standards — particularly in organizations that have overcorrected toward permissiveness after a period of punitive management.
Live instruction • participant guide • implementation tools • reflection activities

Burnout vs. Performance Problems
How to distinguish skill deficits, motivation issues, workload problems, unclear expectations, and environmental barriers.
Best For: HR professionals, clinical supervisors, and executives who need a behavior-analytic framework for accurately identifying whether staff disengagement is a motivation problem, a skill deficit, or a systems failure.
Live instruction • participant guide • implementation tools • reflection activities

Ethics of Productivity Expectations
How to balance revenue, performance, quality, ethical responsibility, and humanity.
Best For: Organizational leaders and practice owners who set productivity benchmarks, billing targets, or caseload requirements — and want to ensure those expectations are ethically defensible.
Live instruction • participant guide • implementation tools • reflection activities

Leading Through the Storms
A leadership-resiliency framework for navigating pressure, uncertainty, conflict, and organizational disruption.
Best For: Directors, regional managers, and senior clinicians who are responsible for guiding their teams through periods of organizational change, financial pressure, or regulatory scrutiny.
Live instruction • participant guide • implementation tools • reflection activities

Quiet Quitting in ABA
A behavioral analysis of disengagement, discretionary effort, leadership signals, and organizational conditions.
Best For: Mid-level managers and clinical coordinators dealing with disengaged staff who are technically meeting minimum expectations but are no longer contributing at the level their role requires.
Live instruction • participant guide • implementation tools • reflection activities

Ethical Leadership in ABA Organizations
How leaders move beyond minimal compliance and build systems that support ethical conduct.
Best For: BCBAs in leadership roles, compliance officers, and practice owners who want a structured, behavior-analytic approach to building ethical organizational culture — not just ticking the ethics box.
Liveinstruction • participant guide • implementation tools • reflection activities

Building Future Leaders in ABA
How to develop leadership capacity, delegate responsibility, plan succession, and build organizations that do not depend on one person.
Best For: Senior practitioners and organizational leaders who are actively developing the next generation of BCBAs and clinical managers and want a systematic approach to leadership succession.
Live instruction • participant guide • implementation tools • reflection activities