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Lisa Clifton-Bumpass is a highly sought-after teacher and mentor for professional trainers who wish to hone their diagnostic abilities, treatment and protocol development, task analysis, critical thinking, and mechanical training skills. She lectures on a number of topics for specialty breed groups, shelters and advanced professional education program organizations such as dogTEC. Lisa has lectured for the San Francisco SPCA and Marin Humane Society's Dog Trainer Academies as well as teaching in England for Kay Laurence. Her lectures range in topics from the biology of aggression and socialization, Anatomy of Behavior, Dog Behavior 101, pet first aid and preparing dog trainers for the professional certification CPDT. She has co-authored articles in animal husbandry journals and also presented lectures at conferences for animal behavior modification organizations on topics from teaching people training methods and advanced training methods for giraffe.
Over the past 15 years, she has founded several specialized training groups: JavaDawgs (a resource and work group for people living with aggressive dogs), EBARK (East Bay Animal Reinforcement Kaizen- a training group for professional science based dog trainers), Clicking on Ice, The Sarah Bella Project (which focused on the learning capacity of animals with damage to the cerebellum), Team Tiki (a volunteer group bringing together highly skilled people from the domestic companion animal training world to support purpose based training within the exotic animal community within a local zoo), and A.R.K. - the Animal Reinforcement Kaizen (a community of animal trainers working within the combined worlds of domestic companion animals and exotic non-domesticated animals). Lisa also functions as an advisor to graduate students, companies designing pet products and as a volunteer consultant for zoological organizations. Early in her career, Lisa realized the traditional means of professional dog training media did not address the complex biological processes of animal learning and behavior. As part of her career development, Lisa worked for world-renowned dog behavior expert Trish King at the Marin Humane Society and went on to accumulate over a thousand hours of coursework with leading experts in every aspect of canine behavior and training—from aggression seminars with Dr. Patricia McConnell to clicker training with Karen Pryor. She has traveled to study canine behavior at the Institute of Canine Ethology at Wolf Park and Applied Animal Behavior under Dr. Marian Bailey in Arkansas. In 2000 she graduated with honors from the prestigious San Francisco SPCA Academy for Dog Trainers, later interning as an aggression specialist. Additionally she studied neurobiology of behavior at Stanford University's Continuing Education Program and enrolled in a four-year Diplomat course in Advanced Canine Behavior with the Companion Animal Sciences Institute. During her career, Lisa developed a wide array of obedience, sports and behavior classes for humane organizations, professionals, pet owners, and adult education and community service programs for the cities Castro Valley, Union City, Dublin, and Pleasanton. She is employed as a consultant for various local shelters, rescue groups, and humane organizations to review particularly difficult behavior cases. Lisa works with pet owners as well as specialists in search and rescue handlers, flyball, obedience, confirmation, and schutzhund competitors to solve training and problem behavior issues. As a result of the body of work in her career, Lisa was selected as the “Dog Trainer of the Year” for 2005 by the Association of Pet Dog Trainers and “The Trainer of the Year” by Dogs in Review the 51st annual Show Dogs of the Year (Specialty Industry Award) associated with the Westminster Dog Show in New York. She has served on the Board of Directors for the CCPDT training certification council, Committee Chair for the training mechanics assessment and currently serves on the Board of Advisors for Association of Animal Behavior Professionals and sits as the Chair of the Ethics Committee and on the Membership Committee for the Animal Behavior Management Alliance. In her private practice, Lisa focuses exclusively on dogs with aggression, fear, phobia, and anxiety issues as well as working with the keepers at her favorite local zoo. Beyond pet dogs and cats, she has worked with many species including Aldabra Tortoises, Blue and Gold Macaw, Princess Parrot, East African Crowned Crane, Egyptian Geese, Liliford Crane, Black Tree Monitor Lizard, Pot Bellied Pigs, Island and Mayalan Flying Fox (fruit bats), both Ring Tailed and Blue Eyed Black Lemurs, goats, Reticulated Giraffe, Spotted Hyena, Common Eland and Hamaydras Baboon. Lisa is considered an iconoclast for her work in building bridges between trainers in many fields of animal welfare and behavior modification by helping trainers develop stronger training skills and methodology. |
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