Artio Leadership Academy

Innovative Leadership Training for a Beautiful Future.

Authentic Leadership

Founded in 2024, Artio Leadership Academy is a leadership and executive coaching business dedicated to the training of the leaders of the future. From the evidence-based neuroscience of leadership, to the authentic practicum of honing leadership with others and with self, we approach every student as a unique and powerful woman ready to refine her capacities to lead with more ease, grace and impact, while replenishing her energy and wisdom.

The Artio Leadership Program guides you to become a leader with greater adaptive intelligence - a natural intelligence that is part of your wild nature, that we aim to unearth.

The Program is named after Artio, the Celtic Goddess of Wildlife, Transformation and Abundance. She is a shapeshifting goddess, which mirrors the Artio Leadership Program’s aim to help you shapeshift in an adaptive response. Artio Academy provides you with the tools, skills, capacities and range with which to lead self, and others, with a capacity to adapt and shift with the dynamic and organic change present in others, yourself and the world.

The Program

  • Self Leadership

  • Source Leadership

  • Purpose Leadership

  • Authentic Leadership

  • Adaptive Intelligence

  • Masculine & Feminine Edges in Leadership

  • Centred Leadership

  • Intuitive Leadership

  • Collective Leadership

  • Integration

For women leaders interested in refining their skills in a new way.

The Artio Leadership Program is a ten month space held for you that includes two meetings a month, pre-reading, assignments, collected feedback, and a leadership project. You can add on retreats specific to the program. During the program, you learn skills for greater leadership capacity, receive feedback from peers, your team and those in your personal life, and complete a leadership project with measurable outcome. The program is innovative with a focus on the neuroscience of leadership, and training in leadership with horses.

Founder & Director

Maia Love MD

Maia is an executive leadership coach and physician specialized in neuroscience and consciousness. She founded and directed BrainTalks at UBC, and has led retreats and spoken internationally at conferences over the last 20 plus years.

Maia’s love of neuroscience includes a university degree on electromagnetism in animals and humans, and advanced neuroscience training through medical studies and research.

Maia guides you to experience your potential, your authentic truths, your personal neuroscience, and sense how to live your unique intelligence in the world, while also grasping the applied neuroscience of how to live your dreams. She works with horses to powerfully magnify and accelerate your personal, professional and leadership growth, in both mysterious and practical ways.

Credentials • Bachelor of General Studies, Simon Fraser University • Bachelor of Integrated Science in Biology & Physics, University of British Columbia • Medical Degree, University of British Columbia • Mindfulness Certification • MiCBT Foundations Certification • Yoga Teacher Certifications • Horse Medicine Leadership Neuroscience Faculty Member • Coaching Certification, International Coaching Federation • Founder and Director of Diamond MD Physician Leadership Program


Artio Leadership Academy Guides

Artio Leadership Academy was founded to be a space where women leaders hone adaptive intelligence while reconnecting to a wild authentic inner nature to give an abundant well spring of energy for the challenges that leaders face. As such, Artio Leadership Academy collaborates with powerful women in the leadership space, who blend authentic leadership coaching with an intelligence in wild nature. Women collaborators are guides who contribute material to the curriculum, co-host lectures and retreats, and bring their gifts to the Artio Space.

Your Artio Guides

Hillary Schneider

Hillary is the founder and lead facilitator of the Epona Rise Retreat Center and Horse Medicine Leadership Academy; she has been leading and teaching retreats and trainings with her herd for the last 12 years.

Passionate about bringing the teachings of the horses to impact the lives of humans, she has been devoted to her own vision and purpose of creating a space in nature where people can come and receive the wisdom of horses, the land and their own inner guidance.

Hillary has, over the last 12 years, had the privilege of hosting and leading retreats with horses for a range of people who are seeking to become more masterful in their experience of being a human with their own passion of personal and professional growth and development.

Credentials • Equine Science Production and Breeding Diploma, Olds College • Coaching Training and Leadership Development, Coach Training Institute • Certified Facilitated Equine Experiential Learning Practitioner, FEEL, Horse Spirit Connections • Certified Equine Assisted Personal Development, Chris Irwin • Equine Guided Coaching, Wisdom Horse Coaching • Intuitive Development Certification, Hannelore • Coach and Equine Guided Facilitator • Retreat Owner and Entrepreneur

Additional Guides

A wealth of colleagues in the healthcare field and horse world contribute to the leadership programming. More details on additional guides coming soon.

Why Horses?

  • Horses provide the perfect mirror to show you when you are being authentic, and when you are not. During the program, you will learn how horses teach you to discern your authentic leadership style in retreats and coaching seminars. You will also review the evidence based science of how working with horses guides emotional intelligence in leadership, including how to better “read the room.”

  • Horses teach us effective, healthy and natural boundaries so that we can better tend to our own energy and and our own nervous system, while leading others. As non-verbal guides to boundary cues, horses can be a fun and playful way to understand the boundaries necessary for impactful and sustainable leadership.

  • Horses can show us how to access true sources of energy for sustainable lifelong leadership based in your authentic purpose. Sometimes, our energy and repletion comes from something more mysterious and ethereal, and horses can help us tap into realms of deep support, inspiration and replenishment.

Women Physician Leaders

As a women physician leader, you approach your practice with a style of leadership based in the concepts, value and principles that you have - based in the what you believe to be the valuable approach of yourself as a woman who is a leader, healer and doctor. Unfortunately, that often means that paradigms of self sacrifice, especially as a woman, and as a physician, lead to burnout and a loss of your natural, wild, radiant, brilliance and glow. The Artio Physician Leadership Program aims to guide you away from self sacrifice, and into true leadership, by teaching you the guiding principles of the authentic leader who balances self care with guiding others to impact positive change in the world, and guide humanity towards greater stewardship of the earth, it’s creatures and each other.

Artio Women Physician Leadership Program

  • The dream of the Artio Women Physician Leadership Program is to teach women physicians how to become truly resilient. I am not only a female physician, I am also the daughter of two parents who are physicians. I grew up seeing first hand the stresses and strains on a medical professional, and was curious over the years to identify specific practices to help my parents and their colleagues maintain resilient well being on all levels while engaged in an impactful medical practice.

  • The goal of the program is to provide a foundation and structure for you to develop authentic leadership as a woman physician. The Artio Women Physician Leadership Program is designed to help you re-define what it means to be a female physician - a woman healer, a woman leader and a woman doctor. The program improves your capacity and skills to lead with an authentic leadership style, while identifying and dissolving toxic traits inherited from an old paradigm.

  • The Artio Approach guides you to be an authentic leader, who models the vibrant abundant wild natural self, who has glowing well being on all levels. When you become unaligned or are approaching burnout, you need an approach to maintain your leadership style, your impact and your team, while you use adaptive intelligence to get back on track. During the Artio Women Physician Leadership Program, you will design a Leadership Project in alignment with the values and principles of authentic leadership, and measure the outcome and impact of the program on your own life, and in your role as a woman physician leader.

  • The Artio Physician Leadership Program is strongly influenced by the LEADS Framework. During the program, you will develop skills to Lead Self, Engage Others, Achieve Results, Develop Coalitions and transform Systems.

Women Physician Leadership Retreat

To deepen in an understanding of what it means to be an authentic leader, as a woman physician, immerse in a transformative process during an in person retreat, with horses.

What is authentic feminine leadership, as a physician? We know that, as a physician, we want to balance the act of caring for our patients and the skill of the medicine that we offer - with the brilliance, vitality and glow of being healthy ourselves, with well being on all levels. We know that the balance between our practice and our self care, prevents burnout, and supports resilience.

However, the act of balancing self leadership with offering medicine to others, can be confused and difficult when we continue to embody toxic traits of old paradigms that interrupt our ability to show up with integrity.

During the Women Physicians Retreat with Horses, review the power of authentic feminine leadership and how to fuel the practices that enable you to navigate towards integrity in your lifestyle balance.

Discover, in the presence of horses, how leadership as a woman physician can be guided by your authentic self, rather than the precepts of the false self, and the false leader.

Explore how you personally, with your own unique medicine, move towards greater balance between self care and providing medicine to others, with an approach that allows you to to have an impact and move humanity towards a positive future, with integrity for yourself, your body, and nurturing the areas of your personal life that bring you joy.

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