Join us for an evening with Dr. Carl Binder

November 15 from 6 pm -7 pm Central

Open Discussion from 7 pm - 8 pm Central

ISPI's Gulf Coast Virtual Community of Practice is proud to welcome Dr. Carl Binder!

Please join us for this free virtual event to hear about Dr. Binder's early experiences in academia, his transition into the field, and his approach to and experiences with professional networking.

Carl Binder is a long-time participant and thought leader in ISPI, having started his ISPI leadership as President of the Massachusetts Chapter of ISPI in 1984, continuing to serve on international ISPI committees and delivering presentations and workshops at every conference since the 1980s.  He has received ISPI’s Lifetime Member (2009) and Thomas F. Gilbert (2012) Awards and continues to speak and deliver workshops at ISPI’s annual conference and for chapters around the globe.  Carl’s career began as a doctoral student with B.F. Skinner in Behavior Science at Harvard during the 1970s and shifted to educational research and application for a decade as Associate Director of the Behavior Prosthesis Lab. Starting in 1982, following Ogden Lindsley’s encouragement to create products and services and find commercial markets for them, he founded and led four consulting firms that have contributed to different application areas. He’s published articles over the years in both Performance Improvement and Performance Improvement Quarterly and has been an Encore Presenter at ISPI conferences a half dozen times. Carl also publishes in behavior science, education, structured documentation, sales performance, and educational policy, including Behavioral Fluency: Evolution of a New Paradigm, the 12th most cited article published in 40 years of The Behavior Analyst journal.  He is now CEO of The Performance Thinking Network, LLC (www.PerformanceThinking.com ), based on Bainbridge Island near Seattle. He delivers performance consulting certification programs, coaching programs and services, and specialized services for sales enablement and HR Business Partners.  At 74, Carl has been involved with behavior science and performance engineering for nearly 50 years, so he has much to discuss!

In this session, Carl will talk about how his career evolved from the basic research laboratory to application, first in education by applying Skinner’s variable (rate of response) in Precision Teaching with the mentorship of B.H. Barrett, Ogden Lindsley, and Eric Haughton; then doing fluency-based instructional design and implementation sales, marketing, and customer service organizations in global corporations; and over nearly four decades developing and refining the plain English Performance Thinking® models and methodology packaged and taught in programs from The Performance Thinking Network. His current work is refining and certifying others to apply Performance Thinking to drive organizational results through the performance of people across all functions and levels.  Performance Thinking includes the Six Boxes® Model, voted “the best performance model in the world” by attendees at ISPI’s international conference in 2022.

After joining ISPI in the early 1980s, Carl reached out and was mentored by some of the founding thought leaders in Human Performance Technology, including Tom Gilbert, Geary Rummler, Joe Harless, Don Tosti, Robert Horn, Robert Mager, and Roger Kaufman. If there’s a single recommendation that Carl offers his younger colleagues, it’s that one should never hesitate to reach out to people whose work you admire. It turns out that they are almost always interested in helping those who are interested in their work and who have the gumption to ask. He says flat out that he learned far more from such brilliant and generous mentors by sticking to them like glue with whatever forms of communication were possible than in formal academic programs at Harvard or anywhere else.

You can learn more about Carl’s work on YouTube at www.PerformanceThinking.tv and his not-for-profit website, www.Fluency.org.  For more details about Carl’s professional career from the beginning, download his 2014 biographical chapter, written for the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies at: https://bit.ly/Binder_2014_CCBSBio

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