Founder & President, Board of Directors
Richard Malott, PhD, retired from Western Michigan University (WMU), in August 2019. He had taught behavior analysis at WMU for the previous 53 years. Originally, he taught an intro to
behavior-analysis course to 1000 students per semester. In his later intro courses, each year, his students did 130 self-management projects and provided 13,500 hours of training to children with autism.
During his most recent 25 years at WMU, he had worked with students interested in becoming practitioners, teaching them how to work with children with autism and to apply behavior systems analysis and organizational behavior management to human-services organizations. In total, he was the advisor for 300 MA students, as well as 20 PhD students.
In 2008, he founded the Kalamazoo Autism Center which, several years later, became part of WMU. In 2025, he completed his 9th edition of Principles of Behavior.
He has presented in 14 countries and has received two Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards. In 2002, he also received the Association of Behavior Analysis’s Award for Public Service in Behavior Analysis. And in 2011, he became president of that association. In 2012, he also received WMU’s
Distinguished Teaching Award.