Better Outcomes. Faster. Through Behavioral Science.

Dr. Paul “Paulie Gloves” Gavoni, Ed.D., BCBA-D, is a leading Behavioral Scientist and coach to UFC fighters and world champions, a Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Amazon bestselling author, former Golden Gloves Heavyweight Champion, and global keynote speaker. For nearly three decades, he has rigorously applied the Science of Behavior across elite sport, organizational effectiveness, and education—including training elite athletes to recognize critical cues, maintain composure, think critically, and make better decisions when pressure, uncertainty, and consequence converge.

Dr. Gavoni’s work extends from turning around struggling schools to improving organizational outcomes in public- and private-sector settings by shaping environments that reinforce effective behavior—producing substantially improved, measurable, predictable, repeatable results.

Every outcome is the result of behavior. Through Deliberate Coaching®—including Performance Engineering—HSI develops performance thinking: understanding why results occur, how surrounding conditions influence behavior, and what needs to change. HSI delivers four connected capabilities: Behavioral Science & Leadership, Education & School Safety, Federal & Teaming, and Keynotes. Across agencies and enterprises, these services strengthen workforce retention and dependable execution while reducing avoidable errors, costly rework, and wasted training. Within schools, they support school violence prevention and anti-bullying through early recognition of conflict, consistent adult responses, de-escalation, and nonviolent conflict resolution.

An award-winning professor and member of the Board of Directors of the World Behavior Analysis Day Alliance, Dr. Gavoni actively collaborates with the B. F. Skinner Foundation. In a peer-reviewed conceptual article published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, Dr. Gavoni functionally defined leadership using the Science of Behavior—a pioneering contribution to the field. His Four Hats framework connects Leading, Training, Coaching, and Managing with observable actions and the effects those actions produce, giving organizations a more precise way to develop leadership, strengthen accountability, and measure outcomes.

B. F. Skinner Foundation interview ↗

In separate engagements, Dr. Gavoni’s work reduced annual employee turnover from more than 100% to 44%, reduced out-of-school suspensions from 792 to 67 in one academic year, and supported two distinct C-to-A school turnarounds. He has trained over 1,000 state, district, school, and classroom leaders. His professional record includes 20+ books, more than 50,000 copies sold, over 300 articles, over 200 keynote, invited, and professional presentations, and more than 5 million annual content views.