The BCBA shortage
Demand has outpaced board-certified supply for years. Competing on comp alone does not move the needle. Sourcing has to reach BCBAs who are not on the open market and will not respond to a generic recruiter.
A recruiting team for ABA networks, autism therapy providers, and behavioral health platforms. End-to-end hiring. Multi-state credentialing-aware. PE-timeline-aware. Flexible week-to-week. Built for clinical and operational hires that need to close in months, not seasons.
Demand has outpaced board-certified supply for years. Competing on comp alone does not move the needle. Sourcing has to reach BCBAs who are not on the open market and will not respond to a generic recruiter.
First-year turnover for clinical staff can hit fifty to sixty percent in some markets. The cost is not just the rehire. It's the family cycling through three therapists in a year.
Every state has its own licensure rules, payer contracts, and supervision requirements. A search that works in Texas does not translate to Massachusetts without rework.
Sponsor-backed platforms need senior clinical operators in seat to hit the value-creation plan. The sourcing pool is narrow. The timeline is tight. The wrong hire stalls the whole thesis.
The roles below cover the full clinical and operating layer of an ABA platform. Same scoring rubric. Different sourcing networks.
Chief Clinical Officers, VPs of Clinical Operations, Regional Clinical Directors, BCBA-D-level oversight roles.
Senior BCBAs for high-acuity sites, clinical supervisors, RBT training and quality leadership.
Regional and multi-site operators, Heads of Intake, Heads of Payer Relations, RCM leadership.
CEOs, COOs, CFOs, and integration leadership for sponsor-backed ABA platforms and behavioral health networks.
Average retention at twelve months across clinical placements.
Median time to BCBA placement for active searches.
States we've placed clinical and operations leaders in.
The first calls that matter are strategic. They surface what the business needs to accomplish over the next four quarters and where the talent question actually sits. Fifteen minutes is enough to start. We come prepared.