Lisa Clifton-Bumpass

Lisa Clifton-Bumpass is a certified dog behaviour consultant and multi-species animal behaviour expert who is an influential and award-winning dog trainer and behaviour consultant.  

Lisa has a long history in animal training, starting off with dogs and shelter animals. Over the course of the last twenty years, Lisa has expanded her expertise and added credentials in human learning, dog behaviour and training, and the behaviour and training of a long list of exotics.  Lisa credits an aggressive bat as one of her first and best animal teachers. Currently, Lisa Clifton-Bumpass provides professional coaching, training lectures, behaviour analysis, organisational animal training program review, and physical skills development to animal trainers of both domestic and exotic species. Lisa provides demonstrations, presentations and topic focused discussions for high schools and universities on the real life application of applied behaviour analysis in zoo settings.  Lisa is devoted to consistent reward-based training and a quest for additional education to pass on to her clients and colleagues. Her special interests include cooperative husbandry, aggression, team-based animal training, and giraffes.