Nicholas Weatherly, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of IO Psychology
I build and deliver my courses with the goal of finding a good blend of instructional time, activities, student responding and interaction, assessment, technology and real-world application. I aim to do this in a fun interactive way that students can enjoy, while also working to ensure they can find value in the content.
Biography
Dr. Nicholas Weatherly is the CEO and Managing Consultant at Deliberate Coaching International. He is an experienced executive, leadership coach, researcher, and author with over 20 years of success leading progressive people operations, transforming industrial safety cultures, and maximizing performance in numerous industries including manufacturing, energy, banking, call centers, transportation, education, and healthcare. He and his teams have worked with hundreds of organizations across the world, with a proven track record of maximizing operating revenues and organizational and staff performance by building holistic systems and targeted training programs, linking performance-improvement initiatives to key business metrics, and strategically aligning short- and long-range goals to the organization’s mission, vision, and values.
Dr. Weatherly’s achievements in operational excellence come through translating organizational capability and objectives into innovative organization-wide initiatives that maximize growth potential through monitoring KPIs, implementing science-based practices, collaborating with individuals across all levels of an organization toward a shared goal, working with inter-disciplinary teams that foster diverse experiences and perspectives, and establishing results-focused objectives and timetables. He has a proven record of forecasting needs and scaling programs in fast-paced environments as market demand necessitates without sacrificing ethics or integrity.
An experienced researcher and sought-after international speaker, Dr. Weatherly maintains a line of research on leadership and coaching through Endicott College and has served as the Head of the School of Behavior Analysis at the Florida Institute of Technology.
Dr. Weatherly has held advisory roles and served on the board of directors for a number of professional associations, advocacy groups, and service facilities including the New York State Association for Behavior Analysis, the Minnesota Northland Association for Behavior Analysis, and the Autism Treatment Association of Minnesota. He is the Past-President of the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts and is also Past-President of both the Georgia Association for Behavior Analysis and the Kentucky Association for Behavior Analysis. He has also worked with the Behavior Analyst Certification Board® across numerous areas including serving as a member of the BACB® Disciplinary Review Committee, as a Code Section Specialist for the BACB’s Code Compliance Committee, as a coach trainer and mentor, and in the development of an ethics coaching system. Dr. Weatherly was the inaugural chair of the Kentucky Applied Behavior Analyst Licensing Board, one of the first stand-alone licensing boards for behavior analysis in the U.S. and continues to stay active in public policy efforts.
Dr. Weatherly received his Ph.D. from Western Michigan University’s Applied Behavior Analysis Program with concentrations on behavioral systems analysis, behavior-based safety, and programmed instruction. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management and is the co-author of three books on Deliberate Coaching.
Publications
Books
Weatherly, N. L. & Gavoni, P. (2025). Deliberate coaching: Optimizing business performance through the science of behavior. Melbourne, FL: KeyPress Publishing.
Gavoni, P., & Weatherly, N. L. (2024). Deliberate coaching: Optimizing teaching and learning through behavior science. Melbourne, FL: KeyPress Publishing.
Gavoni, P., & Weatherly, N. L. (2020). Deliberate coaching: A toolbox for accelerating teaching performance. West Palm Beach, FL: Learning Sciences International.
Book Chapters
Weatherly, N. L. & Ruane, J. (2025). Building effective training systems within organizations. In J. Cihon Johnson (Ed.), Clinical handbook of autism intervention training. New York: Springer.
Weatherly, N. L. (2024). The ethics of Organizational Behavior Management. In D. Johnson, & C. M. Johnson (Eds.), Handbook of organizational performance, volume II: Foundations and advances. London: Routledge.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Austin, J., Weatherly, N. L., & Gravina, N. E. (2005). Using task clarification in a privately owned restaurant and tavern. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 38(1), 117–120.
Weatherly, N. L., & Malott, R. W. (2008). An analysis of organizational behavior management research in terms of the three-contingency model of performance management. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 28, 260 - 285.
Weatherly, N. L., & Malott, R. W. (2014). Using computer-based programmed instruction to train goal-directed systems design. Acta de Investigacion Psicologica, 4, 1746-1756.
Ahearn, W. H., Green, G., Riordan, M. R., & Weatherly, N. L. (2015). Evaluating the quality of behavior analytic practitioner training programs. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 8, 149-151.
Weatherly, N. L. (2019). A behavioral safety model for clinical safety: Coaching for institutionalization. Perspectives on Behavior Science, 42, 973–985
Weatherly, N. L. (2021). The ethics of organizational behavior management. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 41, 197-214.
Weatherly, N. L. (2022). Comments on the ethics of organizational behavior management. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 42, 1-4.
Kinney, C., Weatherly, N. L., Burns, G., & Nicholson, K. (2022). Improving visual inspection, interrater agreement, and standardization with graphic variability quotient. The Psychological Record, 73, 75-96.
Ruane, J., Weatherly, N. L., Weiss, M. J., & Quigley, S. P. (2023). The use of a treatment package to increase timely submission of state regulated medication administration documentation, Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 1-20.
Caberlon, C. M, Weatherly, N. L., Gavoni, P., Nagel, K., Phillabaum, C., & Noto, J. M. (2023). The effects of feedback statements and coaching questions on MMA athlete performance. Seven Dimension, 2, 95-114.
Noto, J., Nicholson, K., Rajagopal, S., Riswick-Estelle, J., Weatherly, N. L., & Rey, C. N. (2024). Behavioral skills training for active shooter scenarios among human service staff. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 1-26.