Our Team
Our Team
Donna Lombardi
Donna Lombardi
Donna Lombardi
Our Team
Donna Lombardi
Our Team
Donna Lombardi is an AQHA (American Quarter Horse Association) Professional Horseman, with over 35 years of experience training, riding, and working with horses. Donna has managed barns with over 40 horses, and has devoted her life to nurturing and taking care of her horses.
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Her love and care for the horses has been the driving force of her success in the many competitions she has won, including winning Top Ten Riders 29 times as well as many other championships. Donnas has built a career teaching, training and coaching people on interaction with horses, and has developed high standards and a strong emphasis on natural horsemanship.
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Donna teaches with relaxed and professional atmosphere. Her students have been champions and top ten at the Quarter Horse Congress, qualified for the Congress youth team, youth world championship and multiple circuit championships.
As part of her ongoing learning, she has studied “The power of the herd” theory and “Touched By a Horse” Soulfulness Theory. Donna continues to study “Healing with Horses in Treatment of Trauma”, and has thousands of hours of experience working with kids and adults to develop their personal growth through their interaction with horses.
Donna Lombardi is an AQHA (American Quarter Horse Association) Professional Horseman, with over 35 years of experience training, riding, and working with horses. Donna has managed barns with over 40 horses, and has devoted her life to nurturing and taking care of her horses.
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Her love and care for the horses has been the driving force of her success in the many competitions she has won, including winning Top Ten Riders 29 times as well as many other championships. Donnas has built a career teaching, training and coaching people on interaction with horses, and has developed high standards and a strong emphasis on natural horsemanship.
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Donna teaches with relaxed and professional atmosphere. Her students have been champions and top ten at the Quarter Horse Congress, qualified for the Congress youth team, youth world championship and multiple circuit championships.
As part of her ongoing learning, she has studied “The power of the herd” theory and “Touched By a Horse” Soulfulness Theory. Donna continues to study “Healing with Horses in Treatment of Trauma”, and has thousands of hours of experience working with kids and adults to develop their personal growth through their interaction with horses.
Donna Lombardi is an AQHA (American Quarter Horse Association) Professional Horseman, with over 35 years of experience training, riding, and working with horses. Donna has managed barns with over 40 horses, and has devoted her life to nurturing and taking care of her horses.
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Her love and care for the horses has been the driving force of her success in the many competitions she has won, including winning Top Ten Riders 29 times as well as many other championships. Donnas has built a career teaching, training and coaching people on interaction with horses, and has developed high standards and a strong emphasis on natural horsemanship.
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Donna teaches with relaxed and professional atmosphere. Her students have been champions and top ten at the Quarter Horse Congress, qualified for the Congress youth team, youth world championship and multiple circuit championships.
As part of her ongoing learning, she has studied “The power of the herd” theory and “Touched By a Horse” Soulfulness Theory. Donna continues to study “Healing with Horses in Treatment of Trauma”, and has thousands of hours of experience working with kids and adults to develop their personal growth through their interaction with horses.
Donna Lombardi is an AQHA (American Quarter Horse Association) Professional Horseman, with over 35 years of experience training, riding, and working with horses. Donna has managed barns with over 40 horses, and has devoted her life to nurturing and taking care of her horses.
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Her love and care for the horses has been the driving force of her success in the many competitions she has won, including winning Top Ten Riders 29 times as well as many other championships. Donnas has built a career teaching, training and coaching people on interaction with horses, and has developed high standards and a strong emphasis on natural horsemanship.
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Donna teaches with relaxed and professional atmosphere. Her students have been champions and top ten at the Quarter Horse Congress, qualified for the Congress youth team, youth world championship and multiple circuit championships.
As part of her ongoing learning, she has studied “The power of the herd” theory and “Touched By a Horse” Soulfulness Theory. Donna continues to study “Healing with Horses in Treatment of Trauma”, and has thousands of hours of experience working with kids and adults to develop their personal growth through their interaction with horses.
Tel: 917-725-0884
Equine Based Management Workshop (EBMW)
Of the skills that separate the good from the outstanding manager, the most important one is the ability to correctly identify the current needs of your counterpart (whether it is your employee, peer, boss or outside party), and to adapt your behavior to those current needs.
A successful manager possesses the flexibility to assume different roles with different people, and in different scenarios. Such a manager is able to correctly apply appropriate responses when force or support are needed, when reevaluating data or accommodating changes are required; or when creative visionary thinking is required to take the team outside the box; or ensure they stick to the plan.
Through the natural structure of the horse’s herd, Equine Based Management Workshop (EBMW) offers unique insights into your own strengths and areas for improvement in both the ability to correctly identify the situations where each of those roles are needed; and your ability to correctly assume those roles with authenticity, consistency and transparency.
Your teacher for the day will be your horse.
Why horses?
Horses are prey animals (as opposed to predators) and therefore they live in herds that protect each other through effective communication and cooperation as to how each horse rotates between the various roles required for survival. They are constantly seeking to strengthen their herd; they value diversity and seek the opportunity to add different species (such as humans) to their group. However, in order for anyone to be admitted to their herd, the horses require two key traits:
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The ability to participate in different roles based on the needs of the herd
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Authenticity and congruency between your internal feelings and your external actions
You are being chosen by a horse who wants to "teach" you something
What should I expect during the session?
During the training session, you will be “interviewed/evaluated” by your horse to join the herd. Why horses?
Horses are prey animals (as opposed to predators) and therefore they live in herds that protect each other through effective communication and cooperation as to how each horse rotates between the various role
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Your horse will:
- Teach you about unexplored areas of yourself
- Show you how to identify the various roles the horse expects you to fulfill (roles that are consistent with the business world)
- Role-play with you in those various roles
- Expose your strengths and areas for improvement in the various interactions
- Provide you with immediate, authentic & direct feedback on your performance (yes, from the horse!)
EBMW offers am unforgettable experience for executives seeking to learn more about themselves, and to improve their interaction with their surroundings to become better managers.
s required for survival. They are constantly seeking to strengthen their herd; they value diversity and seek the opportunity to add different species (such as humans) to their group. However, in order for anyone to be admitted to their herd, the horses require two key traits:
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The ability to participate in different roles based on the needs of the herd
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Authenticity and congruency between your internal feelings and your external actions
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Horse pairing:
The first step of the session will be the horse pairing. Multiple horses will be brought into the arena, and the horse will select the person they wish to interact during the day.