Mark P. Alavosius
Praxis2LLC
Mark P. Alavosius, Ph.D. is President of Praxis2LLC, providing behavior science applications to high performance organizations, and a graduate faculty in psychology (Behavior Analysis Program) at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management (JOBM) and on the editorial board of Behavior and Social Issues (BSI). He recently (2023) co-edited (with Cindy Pietras and Brett Gelino) a special section of BSI on behavior and global warming. He served as president of the Nevada Association for Behavior Analysis and program coordinator for the CSE (Community, Social, Ethics) area of ABAI. He helped found BASS (Behavior Analysis for Sustainable Societies – an ABAI special interest group) and served as the first BASS chairperson. He has been a Trustee of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies for many years and chaired their Commission for the Accreditation of behavioral safety programs from 2010-2016. His interests focus on transferring behavior science to advance socially valid outcomes in organizations and developing behavioral systems to improve work performance. He has worked with many hundreds of organizations worldwide to develop behavior management systems - manufacturing, healthcare, mining, refining, energy exploration, construction, transportation and more. Dr. Alavosius was Principal Investigator of two Small Business Innovations Research Grants from CDC/NIOSH to test behavioral safety technologies for small employers. Since the 1980s, he has published extensively on organizational behavior, workplace health and safety, and behavioral analyses of social and cultural level issues (46 papers, 11 book chapters, one text co-edited (with Ramona Houmanfar and Mitch Fryling) “Applied Behavior Science in Organization” (Taylor & Francis Group) and given over 230 conference presentations).