Julie Broadway, President - American Horse Council & American Horse Council Foundation. With over 30 years of leadership experience in both for-profit and non-profit sectors, Julie holds a BS, MBA, Executive Certificate in Non-Profit Leadership and is Certified Association Executive ® . She’s a life-long horse enthusiast ranging from recreational rider, breeder, and show competitor. A native of NC, she and her husband now reside in DC along with their Pembroke Welsh Corgis and Morgan horses. In her down time she enjoys volunteering (she’s president of the board of PATH International), horseback riding, gardening and cooking. “I’m passionate about the equine industry because horses have enhanced my life and well-being so profoundly,” said Julie. “Working at the AHC is a way to give back to the equine community and ensure the long term health of the industry.”

The principles of “Protector Leadership”, and how that approach to leadership (focusing on horses’ feelings and not just actions) encourages horses to be calmer and more reliable. Lynn Acton has a diverse equestrian and academic background that helps her understand horses, and our relationships with them, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her degrees in sociology and systems science contribute to understanding research studies, social dynamics of horses, and how they interact with us. A certified Riding Instructor since 1994, her practical horsemanship experience includes hunt seat, dressage, western, trail, clicker, liberty, and agility. She has re-trained horses with behavior problems, and started a therapeutic riding program for at-risk youth. Her previously “dangerous” pony competes in advanced agility at liberty, and her Arabian Bronzz was The International Horse Agility Club’s 2018 Equagility (ridden agility) World Champion.

Dr. Julie Vargasis a member of the Spy Coast Farm Team. She heads up the Sport Horse Medicine and Rehabilitation divisions in Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Julie Vargas is a graduate of the University of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine. She completed a hospital and an ambulatory internship at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, KY before joining a sport horse practice in Wellington, FL. She completed her veterinary acupuncture certification at Chi Institute and her chiropractic/spinal manipulation certification at the Integrative Veterinary Medical Institute, both in Reddick, FL. Dr. Vargas has a passion for equine sport horse medicine and strives to find the best outcome for her patients combining years of conventional veterinary medical practice with alternative and regenerative therapies.

Alicia Harlov of the Humble Hoof, will talk about how to identify a healthy frog and how to recognize and to treat frog issues.

Dr. Joyce Harman talks about the importance of clean water for your horse. Water can become contaminated, and just like people, horses need water that is not contaminated.

Dr. Sybille Molle graduated from Veterinary Medicine at the Perugia University, Italy in 2004. After a period of practice in equine medicine and surgery at AEMMECI equine practice in Rome (2001-2005) and at the Département Hippique of the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire of Lyon, France (September 2008) she focused her interests on rehabilitation and physical therapy of the horse, which led her to become a Certified Equine Rehabilitation Therapist at Animal Rehabilitation Institute, Loxahatchee, FL in 2010. After that date, she completely dedicated her professional activity to the treatment of sport horses focusing on manual therapies and the more innovative techniques of equine physiotherapy, athletic conditioning, and re-education of posture. Curiosity and the desire to discover some additional techniques brought her to attend in 2011 the courses of the Kinesio Taping Association for human patients. After her initial contact, the KTA asked her cooperation to become the first DVM worldwide to be a Certified Kinesio Taping Instructor. Since 2011 she started developing the education program for the application of the Kinesio® Taping Method for Equines. Dr. Molle has been teaching this program worldwide from 2012 until 2016. In 2016 she ended her association with Kinesio in order to expand this educational program with ARI. Dr. Molle has lectured at many national and international congresses in equine rehabilitation including the application of Equine Kinesio Taping and was a guest author of the 2016 Rehabilitation of the Equine Athlete in Veterinary Clinics of North America, Equine Practice. Since 2019 Dr. Molle is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation

I am Jane Myers, (MSc Equine) I have extensive experience in teaching horse owners how to have a better relationship with their horse through better horse/land management and improving their riding. I am a horse mad (of course) but also dog mad and a foodie. I share, my life with my partner and best friend of 40 years- Stuart Myers. In addition I have lived an unconventional life plus I am an author, a (late stage three ) cancer survivor and partly deaf. You can learn more at: www.equiculture.net

Wendy and Leslie walk through the steps of becoming a SURE FOOT Practitioner by outlining the process and procedure.