With over 20 years experience helping organizations around the world navigate the sea of change, performance, and motivation, you can feel confident knowing that our unique applied behavioral approach will get it done. Join the success story.
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Our Team
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Ben Granlund
VP of Marketing & CommunicationsBen applies his Masters in design to optimize how your communications are built. He combines behavioral science principles with graphic design, crafting communication pieces that actually change the way employees behave. He also provides on-site technical support and expertise for our consulting work. His design background and technical prowess enables us to dive deeper into our client’s participant’s mindset and understand their underlying behaviors.
Likes: In his spare time Ben likes to travel the world, downhill ski (he's skied at least once every month for two years straight), mountain bike and log as much time in the mountains as he can.
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Raya Parks
Marketing & Growth SpecialistRaya combines her natural creativity and “business brain” to design and coordinate our marketing initiatives. She is all about new opportunities and jumps at each chance she can; seriously she has already dabbled in multiple different fields of marketing…and her career is just beginning! She believes great ideas come from the power of multiple minds and positive thinking.
Likes: Tacos, concerts, traveling, being outdoors, living a healthy and balanced life.
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Tim Houlihan
Strategic Partner – Applied Behavioral EconomicTim is a bridge connecting academic research with the corporate world. He focuses the lens of behavioral economics on strategic business issues using research and executive education with companies around the world. He has partnered with researchers at Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Harvard, Quinnipiac and Monmouth Universities and is always on the prowl for new insights into human behavior. Tim is joyfully married and lives in Minneapolis. He has two children.
Likes: Tim's passion is writing, recording and producing music. He is an Americana singer songwriter with 6 CD's and has performed in Spain, Portugal, Ireland, New York, Nashville and dozens of cities around the Midwest. He loves hiking, sailing, gin and travel (49 states, Europe, SE Asia, South America) for the way it reveals how similar we all are.
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Kim Granger
Strategic Partner – Behavioral ExperiencesKim is a guru in all things “event management” and coordinates our behavioral reward and recognition experiences – including award trips, experiential learning events, and more! She has had extensive experiences in both US based and international events including a major US retailer, an international fast food franchise company, and a global medical device company.
Formally trained as an art historian and having dipped her toes into archeology, Kim is dynamic, organized and finds unique parallels between these fields and the work she focuses on now.
Likes: Travel (for pleasure, for work, and to live), analogue materials, the ocean, and the sound of waves.
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Brent Boston
Strategic Partner – Copywriting & ProofingBrent has been writing and proofing copy for 17 years, with a primary focus on sales incentive campaigns and employee performance improvement initiatives. He thrives on coming up with the perfect words to achieve the desired messaging. Brent lives on a remote farm site in rural southwestern Minnesota with his wife, two children, dog and two cats.
Likes: When he isn't writing, Brent can usually be found at his kids' school, where he helps in nearly every capacity – even as the backup school nurse.