Maia Akiva

Maia is the speaker your employers, educators and conference attendees would love. She is able to convey originality and humor to explain everyday problems they face and use inspiration and her own life experience to offer new ways to a happy and peaceful life.
Whether you need a speaker to kick off the school year with positivity (with your staff), provide a life/work balance guidance to your employers, or need a fun, original and engaging keynote presenter for your conference, Maia is a great fit!
Ideal events for Maia's Keynotes / Presentations:
-Women's retreats/conferences
-Teachers conferences
-Professional Conferences
-Company meetings/retreats
-Evening events

TOPICS INCLUDES:
The power inside of you.
Business from the Heart.
​​From Negativity to Positivity and Everything in between.​
Leadership from the Heart.
Self Love 101, World Tour.
How to stop Bullying *Yourself.
How to use the Power of Purpose to lead you in your Career.
How to Attract a job or an internship with the power of positive thinking.

"Thanks so much, Maia. I got some of the best feedback that I have ever received from a Women’s group. You gave me a deeper understanding too! Thank you."
~Lynn Kaplan, Regional Director David Lynch Foundation/LA

"Maia got us honest with ourselves in a playful way. We each went through true emotional journeys to get in touch with our block, but we laughed the whole time. Maia gives us the power of honesty, and the gift of progress."
~Melanie Zoey, writer/director (Why I Dance)

"I found the experience of Maia's writing to be extremely rewarding. I related to the material right away because of Maia's ability to express fears and worries that we all have in a very simple and honest way. She also has a great imagination."
~Jessica Knutson, actress

"Maia's warm and genuine style - both on the stage and off - is endearing and inspirational."
~Kirsten Giles, WriteGirl Workshops Coordinator.

Maia Akiva is a Motivational Speaker / Entertainer
/ Facilitator, a reality bender and an emotional
researcher who dips into every flavor of human
behavior and self-discovery using creativity,
magical realism, original visual storytelling
and emotional coaching.

Originally from Israel, as a motivational speaker and a
workshops facilitator Maia brings basic self-help ideas to
everyday people through entertainment, using imagination
and humor. Her work includes: multi-media lecture
presentations, outside-the-box workshops learning
experiences, heartfulness meditations, and stories that
humanize emotions and human behavior. She takes her
audience through a journey of self-discovery that she herself
is inspired to work hard at every day.

She is a Recipient of an Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB)
Training Center - Diversity Scholarship for fall 2017.

Maia has been sharing her love of speaking and
leading workshops for the past 10 years as a
host/MC and a workshop creator and leader for
WriteGirl, a creative writing and mentoring
organization for teen girls and women writers,
where she has been a long-time member and volunteer.
She also led workshops of self-discovery at
Models of Pride the biggest LGBTQ youth
conference in the US, and at Brave Trails Camp,
Resilience Treatment Center, and many more awesome
places. She teaches Heartfulness Meditations at
The Den Meditation in Los Angeles and at Companies like
Sony PlayStation, Hulu, Burbank Studios, Deutsch, Caltech
and many more awesome companies.
She lead volunteer training for WriteGirl and staff training at
Reconnect Treatment Center. She managed and lead the Israeli
scouts Los Angeles chapter, and lead workshops
and training as a lieutenant in the Israeli Army,
many years ago.

Maia’s creative work and her desire to
help people take a look at themselves
come from her own experience. After
turning her back on herself for many years,
suffering from depression and self-negativity
she finally decided to start a new relationship
with herself and turned her life around, living
a life full of Joy and positivity.
Through imagination and stories — like
a planned meeting with the woman who
runs her destiny or throwing a Saturday night
party for all of her emotions - Maia explores all of
what life brings up and helps herself and her
audience deal with and explore their challenging
and difficult experiences and their most important
relationship — the one with themselves.

Her award-winning self-help plays and short stories have
been produced and published all over the United States in
the past 10 years, inspiring hundreds of people
to go on a journey of understanding, get to know
themselves better and deeper, and ask
themselves some important questions about
their inner emotional lives, their struggles
and their relationship with themselves.

Maia received her BA in Emotions and her MA in
Imagination from the University of Life. She
currently resides in Los Angeles, which, much to her
surprise, turned out to be one of the biggest
self-help and spirituality center in the US.
Right now she is working on her first self-help
novel “Love Crime Unit” (working title), a story
about a world where love is being counted and
measured for survival just like money.

Maia's Mission Statement, vision and believe is
​in normalizing self-help into our everyday lives.