Laura Dudley

Dr. Laura Dudley is a behavior scientist, professor, and mindfulness teacher. A Doctoral Board Certified Behavior Analyst with more than twenty years of clinical experience, she is a Clinical Professor of Applied Psychology at Northeastern University — where she directs the graduate programs in Applied Behavior Analysis and founded the university's Minor in Mindfulness Studies. She serves as Vice Chair of the board of the New England Center for Children, where her career began, and her analysis of stress and attention has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, and The Boston Globe.

A registered yoga teacher (RYT-500) and MBSR-trained meditation instructor, she has practiced for more than thirty years — and brings the rigor of behavior science to the study and teaching of mindfulness.

Laura Dudley's career began in behavior science. She started at the New England Center for Children, trained as a behavior analyst, and spent two decades studying how behavior is measured and changed, with the rigor that field demands.

Mindfulness came later. And when she turned a scientist's eye to it, she found a field that had begun with too little rigor — long on promise, short on careful evidence.

Her work marries the two: she brings the disciplined, measurement-first framework of behavior science to the study — and the teaching — of mindfulness. For a fellow scientist, that's the bridge between two worlds. For someone drawn to mindfulness or yoga, it's the reassurance that there's real evidence underneath.