Retained Executive Search · Clinical Recruitment · ABA Business Consulting
The hardest seats in ABA get filled here.
ABA Business Growth is the retained search and workforce firm for behavioral health — founded and run by Karen Chung, who built a retained executive-search practice before founding Special Learning. Every search we have ever taken was retained. Not one was contingency.
Flagship
Retained Executive Search — Clinical Directors and above
Clinical Director, Regional Clinical Director, VP Clinical, Chief Clinical Officer — the roles that define your organization are the ones a job board will never fill. Tiny supply, passive candidates, org-defining stakes.
We run these as committed, exclusive retained searches, sourced from the deepest proprietary network of behavior-analytic professionals in the field — built over 15 years of serving this community.
Already delivered at this tier
- Four Clinical-Director-tier searches completed for ABA organizations
- International multi-role clinical searches (BCBA, RBT, SLP)
- Replacement guarantee on every search — never once triggered
Everything else it takes to staff and grow an ABA practice
Staff-Level Capacity: Train, Don’t Chase
We no longer run RBT/BCBA placement searches. Staff-level capacity problems are solved faster and cheaper by training the team you can hire locally — our Training Partner Program does exactly that.
Targeted Email Campaigns
Put your openings exclusively in front of our database of career-seeking behavioral-health professionals.
Training Partner Program
Develop your team and help your clinicians earn certification credits through comprehensive online training.
Business Accelerator
Align and optimize the non-clinical side of your organization — billing, intake, operations — with specialized ABA practice consulting.
AI Automation for ABA Agencies
We run our entire company on AI agents. We will map your workflows and show you exactly what to automate first.
PA IBHS Mandated Training
Pennsylvania IBHS-compliant training programs for ABA provider organizations, ready to deploy.
Organizations we serve
Hiring? Share your staffing needs and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.
Clinical leaders: a confidential conversation
If you lead a clinical program today — Clinical Director, Regional Director, VP Clinical — and want to hear about the searches we run, the conversation is quiet, direct, and never posted to a job board.
Who you will work with
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Karen Chung CEO & Founder — ran a retained executive-search firm before founding Special Learning |
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Almeera Durrani Recruiter |
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Ramsha Saddique Sourcing & Talent Acquisition |
One call. A straight answer.
20 minutes with Karen Chung: bring the role you cannot fill or the problem that will not move, and she will tell you plainly what it takes — and whether we are the right firm for it.