Episode 253 - (SUPERVISION) Setting Up Supervision Systems at Work w/ Kim Heald

Meet Your Podcast Guest

Kimberly Heald, MS Ed, BCBA, LABA has over 24 years of experience working in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis. She earned a BA in clinical/counseling psychology and an AS in chemical dependency from Keene State College. She earned her M.S. Ed from Simmons College and became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. Kim began working with children with disabilities, with a focus in children with autism, while working on her undergraduate degree. Kim has worked with a multitude of children from the age of 15 months to middle and high school students with varying diagnoses in public schools. After working for the May Institute for three years, Kim launched her private consulting practice in 2005, Heald Behavioral & Developmental Services, which focused on providing services grounded in Applied Behavior Analysis. Throughout that time, she was a guest lecturer at Keene State College and provided numerous workshops on autism and ABA. In 2009, Kim merged her practice with John Moran to form a NH-based consulting group, Constellations Behavioral Services, LLC. Also that year, she began consulting to Antioch New England on their curriculum committee to help organize the first NH-based behavior analysis certification program. She went on to teach within the program when it launched that summer. Throughout the last 14 years, Kim worked alongside her husband and CBS CEO to scale their ABA agency into a multi-state provider working in both the public education and medical insurance platforms before converting their agency into an ESOP (employee stock-owned program). Over the last 10 years, Kim shifted her focus from client consultation to staff gamified leveling systems, leadership and team development, and coaching. She is trained in using Predictive Index and is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. In her spare time, Kim enjoys relaxing lakeside with her husband and two children, scuba diving and snorkeling, weight training and is a certified yoga instructor.