The ELM™ is built on one radical premise: your emotional system is not broken. It is brilliant. And it has been trying to tell you something.
Mx. Randall Leonard, LICSW, LCSW-C · They/Them
Clinical Social Worker · Executive Coach · Speaker · Creator of the ELM™
For generations, and for communities whose emotional lives have been systematically suppressed, emotions have been framed as problems to control, symptoms to treat, or weaknesses to overcome.
The Emotion Liberation Model™ starts somewhere different. Emotions are radar systems. Ancient, precise, and deeply intelligent.
Emotion is not the obstacle. It's the compass.
The ELM is a clinical and coaching framework grounded in liberation psychology and neuroscience. Developed through over a decade of clinical observation, community practice, and scholarly study by Mx. Randall Leonard.
It positions each core emotion as a protective system with its own intelligence, directionality, and purpose. This is not a management model. It is a liberation model. The goal is not to quiet your emotional system. It is to help you hear it more clearly.
"Emotion is not the obstacle — it's the compass."Explore the ELM™
We work with executives, clinicians, cooperatives, and community organizations. If you are doing the work of liberation — we are already aligned.
For executives, cooperatives, and community leaders
Whether navigating a C-suite, stewarding a cooperative, or leading a community organization through change — coaching through the ELM™ builds emotional sovereignty and leadership that sustains rather than depletes. Not optimization. Alignment.
Inquire About Coaching →For clinicians, therapists, and helping professionals
A structured, teachable framework for emotion-focused practice rooted in liberation psychology. Available for individuals, clinical teams, and organizations. Clinicians leave equipped to use the ELM as a core clinical language.
Explore Training →For organizations ready to go deeper
Beyond DEI checklists toward genuine emotional sustainability. ENBY Consulting helps teams build systems of care where authenticity is not aspirational. It is structural.
Start a Conversation →Mx. Randall Leonard brings liberation psychology to stages, conferences, and training rooms across the country — weaving neuroscience, ancestral wisdom, and clinical precision into presentations as rigorous as they are transformative.
Recent keynotes include the Meaningful Care Conference, presented on Trans Day of Visibility. Randall's speaking is not performance. It is practice.
Creator of the ELM™. Black nonbinary clinical social worker, executive coach, and community healer. The ELM™ is liberation psychology meets neuroscience — developed through over a decade of clinical observation and tested in the field.
Nearly 20 years in project and program management. Brings Agile precision and high emotional intelligence to the operational backbone of ENBY. Known for leading global teams and building collaborative environments where people actually thrive.
Queer educator, advocate, and ELM researcher grounded in harm reduction and anti-racist frameworks. Believes in productive uncomfortable conversations, centering consent and the agency of both individual and community.
Mx. Randall Leonard is a Black nonbinary clinical social worker, executive coach, and liberation practitioner based in Baltimore. They hold licensure as an LICSW and LCSW-C with over a decade of experience spanning community health, crisis response, clinical practice, and organizational training.
The Emotion Liberation Model™ did not start in a textbook. It started in childhood — in the observation of how emotions move through people, through families, through communities. It grew through clinical sessions, training rooms, and keynote halls. Tested and refined in the field, not in the abstract.
"When we understand our emotions, we understand ourselves. When communities reclaim their emotional lives, liberation becomes possible."
ENBY Consulting exists because that belief belongs in boardrooms and clinical training rooms, not just therapy offices. If you lead people — organizations, teams, communities — this work is for you.
The ELM is growing — into trainings, publications, and community. Be the first to know.