Jacob A. Sadavoy

Jacob A. Sadavoy (he/him/his) is a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst with over 20 years of experience applying the principles of applied behaviour analysis in home programs, clinical centre-based programs, school environments as a teacher and educational consultant, businesses, and hospitals throughout North America. To date, Jacob has travelled to fifteen different countries to collaborate with local clinicians to develop culturally-informed, socially significant, behaviour analytic strategies based on their local environment.

The ethical challenges and barriers of disseminating ABA effectively domestically and throughout the world culminated in Understanding Ethics in Applied Behavior Analysis: Practical Applications (the 2nd edition of this text was released December 2021 and will feature key distinctions in the BACB’s updated Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts). Jacob also sat as the 2019 Vice President of the Ethics and Behavior Analysis Special Interest Group, current task force lead on International Dissemination for the Behavior Analyst SIG on Supervision, as well as Teamwork Healthcare’s Clinical Board. Jacob’s key areas of interest are ethics, supervision, sustainable dissemination, social justice, stakeholder engagement, and services across the lifespan. Jacob’s interest in social justice and compassionate care has culminated in a tome he co-edited with Michelle Zube titled A Scientific Framework for Compassion and Social Justice: Lessons in Applied Behavior Analysis.