✦ ONE VISION. TWO CONNECTED BRANDS.

Built to open doors. Designed to make learning hit.

One vision, two connected brands, and no interest in doing things the usual way.

PARENT COMPANY

OTB
Learning Group

Workforce development · partnerships · behavioral-health education

TRAINING DIVISION

Outside the Box
Trainings

Certification training · professional development · agency learning

FOUNDER & CEOTHE EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE EDUCATION

See Nikeda in the media room

MEET THE FOUNDER

Nikeda Stanback

M.Ed., BCBA, LBA, IBA, CBHCM-S

Nikeda is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with more than 10 years of experience, including six and a half years building and scaling her own ABA companies.

She has trained RBTs, helped behavior technicians grow into behavior analysts, built teams, written protocols, credentialed companies, and completed more professional development—as both the learner and the trainer—than she can count. Translation: she knows when a training is giving “mandatory meeting that could’ve been an email.”

Nikeda founded Outside the Box Trainings in 2025. After transitioning out of day-to-day clinical work in 2026, she got serious about building it—and OTB Learning Group—into something bigger: evidence-based learning with personality, cultural relevance, and people skills professionals can actually use.

Her teaching style blends real-world situations, sharp storytelling, pop-culture connections, and thoughtful technology—including Nikki, her digital twin. Nikki is also Nikeda’s real-life nickname, so the digital version is less random robot and more the same instructor with unlimited outfit changes.

Today, Nikeda is expanding her work across the lifespan through behavior-informed training and consultation for senior living, dementia care, and long-term care settings. Her goal remains the same: helping professionals and caregivers learn something today that changes how they show up tomorrow.

“The future of ABA will not be defined by who can recruit the fastest. It will be defined by who builds the strongest workforce pipeline.”

Read Nikeda’s Breaking News ABA industry profile ↗Connect with Nikeda on LinkedIn in

Nikeda Stanback appearing on MTV’s The Assistant with Andy Dick in 2004

PLOT TWIST

Before becoming a BCBA and founding Outside the Box Trainings, Nikeda appeared on MTV’s The Assistant with Andy Dick in 2004. She was cut in episode one, brought back in episode three, then cut again. Apparently, one elimination was not enough—even reality TV needed an encore. Call it an early lesson in resilience, reinvention, and knowing how to make a comeback. Pop culture was never added to the OTB brand. It was already in the plot.

01 / THE PARENT COMPANY

OTB Learning Group

We create pathways into applied behavior analysis and bring practical ABA training into non-ABA environments. Through sponsored cohorts and community partnerships, we help people access credential-aligned education and help organizations strengthen the skills of the teams they already have.

Sponsored community cohorts and credential pathways
Workforce and community education partnerships
ABA training for schools, daycares and youth programs
Supervision and professional mentorship
ABA-informed education for senior care, dementia care, home health and long-term care teams

Training creates the on-ramp.Explore OTB Learning Group ↗

02 / THE TRAINING DIVISION

Outside the Box Trainings

We create culturally responsive, pop-culture-forward education that respects the science and the people doing the work. The examples sound like real caseloads, the instruction meets learners where they are, and the courses are designed to be remembered after the certificate downloads.

40-hour RBT®, ABAT® and IBT® pathways
Behavior-technician professional development
Agency memberships and bulk training
Self-paced, real-world learning

Explore Outside the Box Trainings ↗

THE STORY BEHIND THE MISSION

I found ABA by accident. Others shouldn’t have to.

Nikeda’s path into applied behavior analysis began with an unexpected opportunity after a layoff—not with a clear career map. That experience shaped OTB Learning Group’s commitment to exposing students, paraprofessionals, mentors, and frontline professionals to ABA careers earlier and connecting training to real opportunity.

“I found ABA by accident. My mission is to help others find it on purpose.”

See how we build ABA career pathways →

I Found ABA by Accident: why Nikeda Stanback built OTB Learning Group

CREDENTIALS & APPROVALS

Approved. Recognized. Real.

Our organizations hold provider approvals across leading behavior-analysis credentialing bodies, supporting 40-hour training and continuing education in the United States and internationally.