be brilliant…
LEAD WITH GRACE.
Develop Adaptive Intelligence With Tools & Strategy For Long-Term Resilience, Profound Change, And Clear Leadership.
PRESENCE
CALM
CONFIDENCE
WHAT IS
LEADERSHIP?
The word “leadership” comes from over two thousand years ago, and originates in a word meaning “to travel with” / “to guide while travelling together.”
What interests you about leadership?
Likely you know, that advancing your capacity to lead with grace and integrity, will grow you beautifully into a better human, as well as powerfully impact the life of others.
HOW DO YOU
WISH TO LEAD?
Maybe you are a higher-level leader who wants to have a happier high-performance team or an executive who is motivated to make a profound difference. Perhaps you are a physician who wants a better balance leading others in their health while flourishing in personal well-being and personal growth.
Perhaps you are curious how neuroscience, the heart field, the beauty of the subconscious, and a wisdom in leadership enhanced by the unique expertise of the horse can guide you to greater skill and leadership, moving forwards.
I work with highly motivated leaders committed to making the world a better place. My clients are curious about how deeply emotional intelligence grounded in the evidence-based science of specific knowledge and practices, advances both personal and team well-being, capacity and creative intelligence.
As we travel together through the knowledge required to grow your natural leadership capacity, we review the following and weave it into your Leadership Project and Action Plan:
THE NEUROSCIENCE OF LEADERSHIP
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KEY LEADERSHIP TOOLS AND TRAITS
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VALUES-DRIVEN STRATEGIES
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HOW TO EXPAND AND ENHANCE YOUR KNOWING OF YOUR TEAM AND YOUR INNATE LEADERSHIP TALENT.
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A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT:
You have worked as a leader, you have read books, taken courses, followed prescriptive manuals. But have you worked with your unique brain, nervous system, heart field and more? Did you know that each individual has their own unique architecture of the brain, as proven in the neuroimaging studies and mapping by Dr. Arthur Toga and colleagues in the Human Connectome Project.
When you take the time for individual coaching, you allow for guidance specific to your authentic skills as a leader, and your authentic nervous system and deeper subconscious processes. As you access your subconscious paired with the parallel nervous system retraining, you hone into what you are aware of in the present moment, as obstacles and visions to guide you forwards.
During your training with me, you clarify your personal practice for self leadership and how you adapt personally to the challenges of leadership. Your personal practice allows you to balance your nervous system and know your inner strength based on scoentificalyl validated virtues and values, to stand strong in the change, challenges and opportunities that come your way.
During your leadership program with me, you learn skills for leaderhsip of others, so that you show up in a neuroscientifically validated way to authentically engage with your team, understand the ecology of the landscape of the team on multiple levels, work together with your team to use challenges as opportunities, and understand roles within the fabric of your collective team awareness that lead to more efficient, easeful and enjoyable time together to align with the overarching vision.
If suitable, you deepen your awareness through the exacting and unapologetic intelligence of immersive experiences with horses on a private property in a remote mountain valley.
AUTHENTIC ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR:
We are likely suited to work together if you are a senior leader with experience in other leadership programs that guide you through a manualized toolkit but have not addressed your unique talents and vision. At this point in your leadership development, you are interested in a training that is highly customized, informed by the language and teachings of neuroscience, innovative with recent developments in brunout prevention, nervous system balancing, longevity practices, electromagnetic awareness and perhaps, with advances emergeing in the the benefits of immersions with horses.
WHAT I OFFER:
As an expert in both non-verbal and verbal communication, I guide you to make key changes in your presence with yourself, and with your team. Emerge after a deep dive into your authentic leadership style, with actionable steps that you take and observe the results of, together with me during our executive coaching program. As my approach is highly individualized, meet with me for an initial consult and we can discuss which Leadership Coaching Program is best for you.
ELEMENTS OF EACH PROGRAM:
Evolve the mindset of yourself as a leader, to perceive challenges as opportunities for growth. I guide you to develop your adaptive intelligence and resilience with the tools of neuroscience-based self regulation and understanding of your team’s collective regulation, development of your own leadership language around the nervous system and how it applies to guiding your team forwards, self care practices to hone your unique skills set and true authentic leadership style, subconscious experiences designed to access your truths congruent with your vision as a leader, virtues and values training from the research of positive psychology, and guidance through a program of applied skills with feedback from those around you.
foundation program
BECOME BRILLIANT
Become Brilliant is my Signature Leadership Foundations Program that focuses on honing your Adaptive Intelligence. During this program, you will more deeply understand the neuroscience between burnout and vitality. You will learn how to balance your own nervous system and the collective atmosphere of your team based on scientific evidence applied to actionable daily tools. You will develop a greater understanding of team dynamics and how you respond, and learn greater flexibility and adaptability to harness the opportunity out of challenges and adversity. As you grow in your knowledge and skill, you develop a long-term strategy with your personalized toolbox of skills to guide you and your team to greater performance, happiness and balance. Founded in 2017, the Become Brilliant Leadership Program takes you through physical, emotional, mental and spiritual tools for greater well-being, with related leadership skills and traits development along the way. In each step, you apply the knowledge to your Leadership Project, testing hypotheses and deepening your Authentic Leadership Style. Several feedback sessions from colleagues and from people in your personal life, ensure a development that is embedded in the realities of your day to day experience. You hone your talents, and dissolve your obstacles, in a practical, action-oriented way that strengthens your leadership intelligence.
PHYSICIAN program
DIAMOND MD
Diamond MD is my Signature Physician Leadership Program to hone your adaptive intelligence as a physician. Developed in 2017 as a peer reviewed process with leading physicians, the program has grown over the years to include not only the neuroscience of resilience and burnout prevention, but also tools and strategies to help you lead your team with excellence, measurable impact, and ease.
As a medical doctor, you are highly trained to manage many elements of your career; however, over 2531 evidence-based studies show that, when you develop leadership skills through a coaching program, you improve well being, quality of life, work life balance, resilience, job satisfaction, empowerment, engagement, prevent burnout, and decrease emotional & mental exhaustion.
When you engage in committed physician leadership coaching, you further your power to have a lasting impact related to your vision for the future, and, in the Diamond MD Program, you also deepen your integrity to lead not only others, but also yourself, as a balanced leader - what Carl Jung calls a “true leader.”
Hone your resilience as a leader, develop your vision for the future, and reclaim the warmth of your humanity, in the Diamond MD Physician Leadership Program.
PHYSICIAN program
DIAMOND MD online
Diamond MD Online is my Signature Physician Leadership Program to hone your adaptive intelligence as a physician. Developed in 2017 as a peer reviewed process with leading physicians, the program has grown over the years to include not only the neuroscience of resilience and burnout prevention, but also tools and strategies to help you lead your team with excellence, measurable impact, and ease.
As a medical doctor, you are highly trained to manage many elements of your career; however, over 2531 evidence-based studies show that, when you develop leadership skills through a coaching program, you improve well being, quality of life, work life balance, resilience, job satisfaction, empowerment, engagement, prevent burnout, and decrease emotional & mental exhaustion.
Newly released in July of 2025, the Diamond MD Online Program reviews the essentials of my physician coaching program, now available to you in a self-directed on demand program. The online program includes:
8 weeks of weekly paced self-directed reading, journal prompts, task assignments, and feedback collection suggestions
26 evidence-based peer reviewed articles
5 core modules
Well-Being & Burnout Prevention Neuroscience-Based Tools
Team Leadership Skills & Resources
Emotional Intelligence Deep Dive
Creation of a Leadership Manifesto & Leadership Project
Physician Professionalism & Leadership Development
Course Completion Certificate
Elegant Visuals
PHYSICIAN program
MASTERY OF THE MOMENT
In leadership, you can pivot with grace and ease when you learn how to master the moment through a neuroscience-based way to “read the room.” As a leader, having the capacity to understand, on a non-verbal level with the language of neuroscience, what is happening in your team, and, in your reaction to your team, and how to use this information to guide everyone towards realizing the vision, can advance your leadership skill set further, faster. In the Mastery of the Moment Program, you learn a neuroscience-based toolkit to expand your capacity to lead no matter what the moment presents, through a focused development of your understanding of applied neuroscience, for yourself, and for your team.
Mastery of the Moment is an advanced leadership program for physicians, available after completion of the Diamond MD Program. Take your leadership skills next level with a focus on the neuroscience of leadership as it applies to day to day challenges in the physician workplace. Understand the language of the neuroscience and how to apply it to lead your team forward, in five modules in tandem with personal coaching over the course of a year, supported by evidence-based scientific literature. Note that this program may be approved for scholarship funding.
DURING YOUR LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
WITH ME, YOU
WILL RECEIVE:
A clear definition of well-being and how this applies to burnout, burnout recovery, burnout prevention and building vitality in yourself and others for greater success. You will review the evidence-based science of burnout versus well-being, and define your core strategy for resilience, for yourself, and your team.
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Greater emotional intelligence as you discover how you respond to different emotions in yourself and in your team. As you refine your ability to sense the emotional atmosphere of your team as a whole, and the individuals you lead, we will customize your leadership toolkit. You identify specific tools and a clear framework to help you guide your team to greater happiness, agility and adaptability.
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Skills to help you face workplace challenges such as difficult conversations, leading your team and dealing with complexity.
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A customized strategy to influence change within your company to prepare for the future and sustain team performance, happiness, connectivity and a sense of meaning and purpose. You learn team dynamics and interpersonal habits that can be clarified for greater harmony and team cohesion.
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Personalized coaching for greater vitality and balance in the face of challenges that give you energy, rather than drain you at the end of the workday. You develop a personal resilience toolkit to support you as you lead, travel and present with presence, authority and authenticity.
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MY EXPERTISE
INTELLIGENT • STRATEGIC • PROFESSIONAL
I guide you to become brilliant. My approach
includes science-based strategies, neuroanatomy education, mind training and inner work with the subconscious. My experience in leadership includes well-being program development, lectures, retreat program development, multiple
physician health and leadership conferences and more.
Credentials • Internationally Certified Coach • Medical Doctor • Board Certified Psychiatrist • Internationally Certified in Addiction Medicine • Extensive Yoga, Meditation and Breathwork Training • BSc Biology & Physics • BA Ecology & Dance • Neuroanatomy and Resilience Researcher
YOUR LEADERSHIP PROGRAM WITH ME INCLUDES:
25 coaching sessions
10 weeks of online part-time learning
Five Modules of progressive development
Option to add team workshops
One year of executive leadership coaching
INVESTMENT
$20,000
Canadian dollars, before tax.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES:
THE INNER LANDSCAPE:
As well as addressing external factors - your business, team, lifestyle design and biological well-being - we also look at your inner landscape, where your subconscious attitudes and drives impact your leadership style. As an expert in this area of adventure, I guide you to investigate your non-verbal intuitive and emotional landscape to grow powerfully as a leader.
COMMUNICATION:
As an expert in both non-verbal and verbal communication, I guide you to make key changes in your presence wIth your team, to create a healthy work atmosphere that builds happiness, authenticity and positivity in communication.
MINDSET:
Evolve the mindset of yourself as a leader, to perceive challenges as opportunities for growth. I guide you to develop your adaptive intelligence and resilience so that “failures” become opportunities to see hidden clues for greater excellence.
horses & leadership
EXPERIENCE HOW HORSES GUIDE YOU TOWARDS GREATER LEADERSHIP
Develop Greater Authenticity And Leadership Acumen Through The NonJudgemental And Exacting Honest Reflection Of The Horse.
Equine Guided Leadership Training Is Being Increasingly Recognized In Evidence-Based Literature As Key To Advanced Emotional Intelligence Training For Leaders.
When you add in the neuroscience, subconscious depths, archetypal impact and heart field training that horses support, you deepen your capacity to expand your leadership intelligence.
WhY HORSES ?
Working with horses allows you to shift your personal neuroscience in a beautiful and powerful way that changes your leadership capacity. You engage with the intelligence of the horses, to guide an inner transformation that leads to lasting change on personal and leadership levels. As the physics of the more sophisticated area of intelligence of the Horse, shifts the physics of the less intelligent areas of imbalance in the Human, the Horse Human Connection allows for you to learn how to lead yourself and others, with greater integrity.
From changes in the three part brain, to the autonomic nervous system, to the electromagnetic heart field, to the gut brain and the fascia, and deeper structures linked to intuition such as the thalamus and brainwave patterns, the changes that occur as you reveal hidden truths with horses, allow for you to develop skills proven by science to create effective leadership.
As you understand the power of insights into the unconscious and archetypal layer of consciousness as led with the horses and your human guides, paralleled with the teachings on the neuroanatomy and neurophysics that explain profound transformation, you understand leadership on a whole new level, and this empowers you to step forward with greater adaptive intelligence as to how to lead yourself, and your organization, towards your most beautiful vision of the future.
The NeuroscienceHow horses support leadership development is an emerging field of scientific study with preliminary studies and over 88 peer-reviewed evidence-based scientific articles supporting the transformational power of learning with horses on the ground to empower authentic embodied leadership. In a field called Equine Assisted Learning, studies show that working with horses improves self-awareness, emotional intelligence, nonverbal communication, empathy, trust building, adaptability, and problem solving, with a recent 2025 study synthesizing 88 articles to the innovative paradigm emerging with how horses ignite leadership development (1). Horses have been proven to help leaders and innovators develop relational and embodied leadership skills, including building genuine trust, adaptive intelligence, and emotional intelligence, which significantly contribute to organizational resilience and sustainable growth (2). Working with horses in a specific way, provides an embodied, experiential learning that leverages nonverbal communication, emotional regulation, and relational awareness, which are skills that are often neglected in conventional and cognitive based, top down programs (1,2). By engaging a full bodied learning on the level of neurophysics, horses provide an optimal space for a genuine deepening of integrity and understanding of collective neuroscience, which has the lasting impact of deepening your skills as a leader to read the room, show up with a capacity to build trust and connection, and grow a sense of belonging and awareness in your time, that clears up more space for creativity, innovation and aligning with your organization’s vision for a better future (3,4,5,6,7,8).
2025. Sivagurunathan, R., S Senathirajah, A. R. b., Sivagurunathan, L., Qazi, S., & Haque, R. Equine-Assisted Experiential Learning: A Literature Review of Embodied Leadership Development in Organizational Behavior. Administrative Sciences, 15(8), 298. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci15080298
2025. Sivagurunathan R, Senathirajah ARBS, Sivagurunathan L, Arokiasamy L, Qazi S, Haque R, Su Y. Equine-assisted learning and leadership transformation: an exploratory qualitative study of workplace behavior. Front Vet Sci. 2025 Nov 25;12:1700029. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2025.1700029. PMID: 41378260; PMCID: PMC12685683.
2023. Shine, J.M., Lewis, L.D., Garrett, D.D. et al. The impact of the human thalamus on brain-wide information processing. Nat Rev Neurosci 24, 416–430 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-023-00701-0
2023. Geibel HV, Otto K. Commitment is the key: A moderated mediation model linking leaders' resources, work engagement, and transformational leadership behavior. Psychol Rep. 2023 Aug;126(4):1977-2002. doi: 10.1177/00332941221074256. Epub 2022 Mar 1. PMID: 35084267.
2024. Fletcher KA, Friedman A, Wongworawat MD. Understanding Emotional Intelligence to Enhance Leadership and Individualized Well-Being. Hand Clin. 2024 Nov;40(4):531-542. doi: 10.1016/j.hcl.2024.06.003. Epub 2024 Aug 6. PMID: 39396332.
2015 Pohl, L. The Effectiveness of Equine Guided Leadership Education to Develop Emotional Intelligence in Expert Nurses: A Pilot Research Study. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.1303.6248
2025. Pohl, L. The Effectiveness of Equine-Assisted Learning to Develop Presenting Mastery. International Journal of Presenting Leadership and Coaching. https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:279631303
Duarte AP, Ribeiro N, Semedo AS, Gomes DR. Authentic Leadership and Improved Individual Performance: Affective Commitment and Individual Creativity's Sequential Mediation. Front Psychol. 2021 May 7;12:675749. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.675749. PMID: 34025537; PMCID: PMC8139621.
LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
ARTIO
CURIOUS TO DEVELOP LEADERSHIP SKILLS WITH HORSES?
Contact us to apply to the Artio Leadership Academy training program. With the unapologetic and exacting wisdom of the horse, learn how to deepen an understanding of the heart field, access horse wisdom for greater leadership skill, and engage in the beauty and magic of the archetypal layer of consciousness. with this approach, enjoy greater creativity, fun and enjoyment in your leadership career and organization, balanced with the profound seriousness and stable, firm confidence in manifesting your leadership vision with integrity in your personal life.
*Include your past leadership training, experience with horses, and what you wish to get out of the Artio Program.
WOMEN PHYSICIAN’S LEADERSHIP RETREAT WITH
HORSES
FUTURE DATES PENDING
BC CANADA
THE PHYSICIAN LEADERSHIP RETREAT PROGRAM WITH HORSES INCLUDES:
Teaching, discussion, case studies and more. Neuroscience of leadership and conflict resolution in teams, burnout prevention, self leadership and LEADS interactive framework. Daily sessions with a free roaming herd of horses. Actionable curriculum, goal setting and self directed project. Private cabin on quiet 80 acre remote mountain farmland ranch, catered meals.
INVESTMENT
$10,000
Canadian dollars, before tax.
Next dates TBD
Early bird options available
GUIDING PRINCIPLES:
THE INNER LANDSCAPE:
As well as addressing external factors - your business, team, lifestyle design and biological well-being - we also look at your inner landscape, where your subconscious attitudes and drives impact your physician leadership style. As an expert in this area of the inner landscape adventure, I guide you to investigate your non-verbal intuitive and emotional landscape to grow powerfully as a leader.
COMMUNICATION:
As experts in both non-verbal and verbal communication, myself and my co-hosts will guide you to make key changes in your physician leadership presence, to create a healthy work atmosphere that builds happiness, authenticity and positivity in communication, and a healthy work-life balance for your sustainable future.
MINDSET:
Evolve the mindset of yourself as a physician leader, with the authentic feedback from horses, to perceive challenges as opportunities for growth. I guide you to develop your adaptive intelligence and resilience so that “failures” become opportunities to see hidden clues for greater excellence.