Patrick Jecmen is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, hunter, fisherman, and conservationist based in northern Illinois. He founded Shaping Wild Systems on a straightforward observation: conservation programs routinely fail not because the science of habitat and wildlife management is wrong, but because the science of human behavior is missing. 

 

His background is in applied behavior analysis, with a career spent working in schools and organizations where behavior change has real consequences for real people.

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He grew up fishing and hunting the lakes, rivers, and woods of the Midwest and has spent a lifetime in wild places. Smallmouth, whitetail, upland birds, trout streams in the Rockies, walleye on the Iron Range, and canoe country in the Boundary Waters. That time outdoors is not background detail. It is the reason this work matters.

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Patrick has spent his career studying why people do and don't change their behavior and applying that knowledge in the real world. Shaping Wild Systems brings that systematic approach to conservation, working with wildlife agencies, landowner programs, and conservation organizations to turn good intentions into measurable action.

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He understands this world because he lives in it.