Pinnacle EDS Special Education Infrastructure
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About Pinnacle EDS

Built by demand. Focused on impact.

Pinnacle EDS was established in 2026 by practitioners who had spent years being sought out by organizations, districts, and agencies that needed their expertise.

Our story

One firm for work its founders were already doing.

After years of being pulled toward this work while serving in other roles, our founders came together with a single mandate: build the firm that could deliver what they had each been doing for decades, with the scale and structure institutions need.

Large organizations and governments set the conditions for whether children receive quality special education. When those systems are well built, children thrive. When they are fragmented or missing, children fall through the gaps. Our work exists to close those gaps at the institutional level, where the most children can be reached.

Every child, wherever they live or go to school, deserves a system built to serve them.

Our mission

Systems that serve children, families, and communities.

For children

Consistent, evidence-based ABA and special education services, whichever school, clinic, or country a child is in.

For families

Transparency, consistency, and confidence in the care their children receive, with the support they need alongside it.

For countries

Governance that keeps quality consistent across every school in a nation, so geography never decides whether a child is served.

Leadership

Meet our managing directors.

Our managing directors lead a broader team of credentialed practitioners, educators, and institutional specialists.

Emily Freeman, BCBA

Managing Director, Clinical Systems

Emily leads Pinnacle EDS's clinical systems practice. Her work centers on the infrastructure that keeps applied behavior analysis consistent across clinicians and locations: treatment plan standards, session delivery, supervision, and documentation.

She guides the firm's clinical and compliance frameworks for health systems and multi-site ABA providers, from the first organizational assessment to quality assurance across every site.

Focus areas

  • CIAClinical Infrastructure Assessment
  • ISFITP Standardization Framework
  • SDS7.5-Minute Service Delivery System
  • MQASMulti-Site Quality Assurance System

Ahmed Elmi

Managing Director, Education & Institutional Affairs

Ahmed leads Pinnacle EDS's work with school districts, state agencies, and governments. His focus is the institutional side of special education: program design, policy, compliance, and the educator workforce needed to sustain them.

He guides the firm's education, workforce, and government frameworks, including its work with ministries of education building or reforming national special education systems.

Focus areas

  • SESRASpecial Education Systems Readiness Assessment
  • NWDFNational Workforce Development Framework
  • GRPAGovernment Readiness & Policy Assessment

Experience

Institutional experience at every level.

Selected experience from our leadership team's prior roles, the foundation our frameworks and methodology are built on.

Clinical · Multi-site

Large multi-site ABA provider

Prior leadership role · Multiple locations

  • Designed and implemented center-wide treatment plan standardization across multiple clinic locations.
  • Built clinical scheduling infrastructure for consistent goal delivery in every session.
  • Developed supervisory review and documentation quality systems adopted organization-wide.
  • Led clinical staff training and BCBA onboarding program development.

Education · District

Urban school district

Prior executive leadership role · Multiple schools

  • Served as executive director overseeing special education programs across multiple schools.
  • Designed and implemented district-wide IEP frameworks and compliance systems.
  • Built educator workforce development programs aligned to state and federal requirements.
  • Led trauma-informed practice integration across school special education programs.

Clinical · School-based

School-based ABA program

Prior clinical leadership role · Multiple states

  • Developed and implemented ABA programming in school settings across multiple states.
  • Designed behavior intervention systems integrated with school-wide positive behavior frameworks.
  • Provided clinical supervision and ABA training to educational staff.
  • Built compliance documentation systems aligned to state education regulations.

Credentials

Credentialed. Licensed. Ready to deploy.

Our teams hold the credentials and state licensure needed to work across the clinical, educational, and institutional settings we serve.

Clinical credentials

Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)

Licensed Behavior Analyst (LBA)

  • Minnesota
  • Virginia
  • Kansas
  • Maryland
  • Hawaii

Teaching licensure

  • California
  • Minnesota
  • Hawaii

Education leadership

  • Advanced degrees in education
  • Principal and executive director experience
  • Trauma-informed practice certification

We deploy multidisciplinary teams of behavior analysts, special education specialists, education leaders, and implementation professionals, virtually and on site. When local legal or regulatory interpretation is needed, we coordinate with qualified counsel in that jurisdiction.

Start with a discovery conversation.

Tell us about your organization and what you are looking to build or reform. We will respond to schedule a call.

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