Nasrin Sultana Shila, IBA

I am an International Behavior Analyst (IBA) and an industrial-organizational psychologist based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. My work sits where applied behavior analysis, research, and teaching meet.

From 2021 to 2025 I worked at Inner Circle, a social enterprise of SAJIDA Foundation, providing Applied Behavior Analysis–Verbal Behavior therapy to children between 18 months and 13 years old — one-to-one, in groups, and online. Day to day that meant running ABLLS-based drills, keeping session data, writing progress reports, and reviewing where each child stood against their Individualized Education Plan. Since November 2025 I have been an ABA Supervisor at Tender Twig, planning and overseeing therapy programmes, assessing clients, and training and supervising therapists.

I trained as a psychologist at the University of Dhaka, finishing first in my master's class with research on consumer decision making, and second in my undergraduate class with a project on childhood musical training and abstract reasoning. Both became published journal articles. In 2022 I joined a University of Dhaka Centennial Research Grant project as a Research Fellow, and that same year a paper of mine won first prize at the 2nd International Conference on Industrial Organisational Psychology.

Alongside practice, I teach. I have taught French, Social Studies, and History to Grades 4–8, and I run online courses on emotional intelligence, resilience, and stress management. I have also written two books and translated seven more into Bangla — mostly for children — because good ideas should reach people in the language they actually think in.