Landria Seals Green on Having It All Without Doing It All in ABA

An SLP First, a BCBA After

Before Landria Seals Green ran a school, she ran one out of her house. When her daughter, who has dyslexia, was learning the alphabet, Green did not try to teach every lesson herself. She built the curriculum, then trained her son and her husband to deliver it, teaching her son how to teach his sister her letters, she told BreakingNewsABA. “No one acted like it was a forever thing,” she said.

The arrangement previewed the philosophy she now runs her companies on: design the system, then train the person in front of the learner. Or as she describes it in terms of a “huddle,” as “turning the player into the coach.”

Green first came to behavior analysis as a speech-language pathologist. A medical-based SLP for more than 20 years with a focus on augmentative and alternative communication, she pursued the BCBA after watching Dr. Vince Carbone present on verbal behavior, which she has described as “speech therapy on steroids,” drawn by its data-driven methodology and the goal of being the best kind of therapist. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University.

From Momentum to The Huddle

Green was CEO of Momentum Autism Therapy Services, a Michigan center- and home-based ABA provider, when BlueSprig Pediatrics acquired its assets in October 2020, with terms not disclosed. Green describes the transaction plainly as her clinical practice’s sale to private equity. She counts it as a learning experience. She went on to serve as a clinical leader at BlueSprig.

After George Floyd’s murder, her advocacy took a new lane. Green co-founded the ABA Task Force with Vanessa Bethea-Miller, a BCBA, from the position the group still leads with: “Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is a science that addresses socially significant issues. It is time that we use our science to take action and make an impact.” In the interview, she framed her question as how to arm behavior analysts to advocate for people through behavior change; she believes the science “can save the world, but needs help with details.” It is the homeschool instinct pointed outward: equip more people to do the work.

The Huddle is where that support for behavior analysts became a business. Green is founder and CEO of the mentorship and education community, which describes itself as “Mentorship, Belonging, and Education for the Autism Industry Professional.” The organization promises to develop the profession “one Behavior Analyst at a time,” with professional learning circles, supervision research partnerships, and workshops that include adding speech programming to an ABA practice. She frames it as an extension of supporting behavior analysts, moving them toward clinically centered work through mentorship. The name is not an accident. Teams huddle at home, then play on the field, and in her telling, “players and coaches always have something to gain.”

Green said her daughter, then 7, encouraged her to build a school. Today Green is CEO and training director of ExcelPrep Schools, an Illinois-authorized K-8 program for neurodiverse learners in Champaign and Bloomington built on direct instruction, Precision Teaching, and SLP-designed verbal behavior programming, under the motto “All Brains Learn.” Her founder list also includes ExcelLearning and the SOAR curriculum, per her website.

Have It All, Delegate the Rest

Green’s answer to the question of how one person manages a school, a mentorship company, and a family is that she does not do it alone.

“You can have it all, but you cannot do it all.” – Landria Seals Green, founder and CEO, The Huddle (2026)

Delegating is the practice she named directly in the interview. It is the homeschool lesson scaled up: she built the curriculum. She trained the people in front of the learner, and The Huddle’s mentorship model reflects the same philosophy, developing clinicians so the work does not rest on one person.

Her advice for clinicians eyeing ownership starts with motive. “Do it for love of the game,” she said. “Gotta love it.” Would-be owners should take an honest inventory of what they will dislike about ownership, she added, and find their why.

AT A GLANCE

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