Dr. Michelle A. Duda, PhD, BCBA-D, is a senior level Board Certified Behavior Analyst and the President of the innovative research and coaching firm, Implementation Scientists, LLC. Building from her deep leadership experiences as a Scientist and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Associate Director of the National Implementation Research Network, Dr. Duda has consistently demonstrated how to help teams move best and promising practices into “real world” application. Dr. Duda serves a variety of populations across the human services fields, including earlychildhood, autism, education, health and mental health.

She is passionate about supporting the dissemination, implementation and scale-up of evidence-based practices and applies her expertise at local, state/provincial and national levels. Her research interests include; 1) assessing and building implementation capacity, 2) the application of Implementation Science in complex organizations and 3) the development of instruments to measure implementation capacity (i.e. District Capacity Assessment). In addition to being a highly sought after keynote speaker and trainer/coach, Dr. Duda has over a decade of experience serving as a coach, consultant, applied researcher, trainer, professor and published author. She has authored several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and to help translate the research to practice.