Conference for Global Transformation
| Author | Biography |
| Agnes Oh | Agnes Oh is an accountant turned financial planner, born and raised in Singapore. She is a designated leader of Introductions to The Landmark Forum. As the first registered life planner in Singapore and a certified divorce coach, Oh is passionate about guiding individuals to create their lives as masterpieces. With a unique approach that views money as a resource and a means, rather than an end, she empowers clients to align their finances with their personal goals and values. Her dedication to her clients is driven by a deep belief in the power of intentional financial planning to transform lives. |
| Amrit Kendrick | Amrit Kendrick’s commitment is that all humans have a deep appreciation for their planet. As a yoga teacher and retired park ranger, she likes to connect people to each other and to other beings. She lives near the Indian Ocean in Western Australia and hosts a weekly Social Commons Inquiry call for people from Australia and New Zealand. As a child, her favorite playground games were skipping rope and hopscotch. She also played the oboe for many years, which involved learning from mistakes and exploration. |
| Barbara Lewthwaite | Barb Lewthwaite, pioneer, mother, teacher, healer, psychic, and spiritual life coach, passionately spreads enlightenment across various domains, including Māori language education, English as a second language instruction, bereavement counseling, and parenting guidance. Her 14-year stewardship of the Holly Bush Campsite spiritual community exemplifies her dedication. Currently, she’s spearheading leadership initiatives in Africa through the Human Plant Project, aiming to foster compassion, tolerance, creativity, productivity, sustainability, and love in society. Simultaneously, Lewthwaite is diligently penning her autobiography, encapsulating her multifaceted journey. |
| Catherine Green | Catherine Green is a Landmark graduate and former staff member with a life-long passion and commitment for creating a world where everyone and everything is included. We are all living, creating, and dancing together in our paradise as partners, playmates and soulmates. Love, possibility and partnership always. |
| David Lanfear | David Lanfear lives in Lake Luzerne, New York, with his wife Alison. He is a graduate of The Landmark Forum and has completed several senior Landmark courses. He owns a company that installs green roofs and is committed to sustainability, learning, family and helping people be free from their limiting beliefs. |
| Hilary Burns | Hilary Arnow Burns grew up in Westport, Connecticut. She graduated from the Wharton Business School at University of Pennsylvania in 1981. She spent more than 30 years as a business consultant to companies all over the world. Her greatest accomplishment is having raised two remarkable children. Burns has published three books, is the host of the Getting Real with Hilary show on e360tv, has a YouTube channel and a TikTok following, and awebsite, GettingRealwithHilary.com. Her vision is to inspire people to live the lives of which they’ve always dreamed. She is currently living hers. |
| Katherine Wilcox | Katherine Wilcox and her husband Jeff were childhood friends, then spouses and life-long work partners. She has enjoyed a variety of work experiences. Among others, she was an IBM systems engineer, a professional veterans advocate, model, documentary producer, business consultant, and artist. With her newly found free time, she plans to use her skills with fiber, garment design, the laws of physics, and her Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Purdue University to build a better bra. |
| Lorraine Telford, R.N. | Lorraine Telford, registered nurse, leads a multidisciplinary community health team in Alberta, Canada, who deliver high-quality education and support to adults and caregivers managing chronic health conditions. Since 1980, she has provided expert nursing services for clients and communities in a wide range of acute, primary care, community and public health programs, and has expertise and consulted in quality improvement, program planning, management, and evaluation. She has been an educator in several universities in nursing, family support and public health promotion. She has won awards for political action to ensure health care is provided to everyone. |
| Lynnie Sterba | Lynnie Sterba is an artist, licensed psychotherapist, and coach whose work centers on healing. She begins each painting by writing the word “love” on the canvas, grounding her creative process. Her work is influenced by Zen calligraphy, Fauvist self-expression, and abstract painters’ fluidity, movement, and design. Whether creating art or working with clients and businesses, Sterba blends art and therapy to empower others to infuse their lives with beauty, inspiration, and healing. |
| Mark Blumler | A Taoist since childhood, Mike Blumler fell in love with California wildflowers and studied plant ecology in college, eventually becoming an associate professor of biogeography. Currently, he is showing how the Taoist view of human-nature relationships aligns with and can illuminate “non-equilibrium” ecology. |
| Mary Wells | Mary Wells, a licensed clinical social worker, is pioneering transformative approaches to chronic pain management, challenging traditional treatment paradigms. Building on the foundation of a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Santa Cruz, and a master’s from California State University, Fresno, she demonstrates how mindset and scientifically researched interventions can alter the experience of chronic pain. At the forefront of a paradigm shift in pain treatment, Wells transforms lives through her work with brain-derived chronic pain at Wellness Pain Care in Bend, Oregon. Through patient care, consulting, and teaching healthcare professionals, she is revolutionizing how pain is understood and treated, creating positive change for individuals and the field. |
| Max Amichai Heppner | Max Heppner is a healthy retiree who celebrated his 90th birthday in 2023. Seen as an inspiring father and grandfather figure, he is committed that people his age contribute to the community, passing on their experience and practical knowledge to the next generation. He has authored numerous stories and articles, in addition to seven books, including, “I Live in a Chickenhouse,” a Holocaust memoir available in English, German, Dutch, and Hebrew, as well as, “A Vision of Love for Christians and Jews,” about lessons he learned in reviewing his life as a survivor of the Holocaust. |
| Meryl Sher | Meryl Sher attended Juilliard and Oberlin to pursue opera and worked in corporate America more than 40 years. She still produces and performs live/live-streamed concerts and is currently creating a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Opera Young Artists’ program, which will recognize past opera luminaries and give older singers the chance to sing at the Met and have their dreams fulfilled. She was a Self-Expression & Leadership program leader and participates regularly in Landmark’s Conference for Global Transformation, Year-End Vacation and Inquiries of the Social Commons. She is passionate about family, friends, the arts, traveling, and bringing joy to the world. |
| Neelam Bakshi | Neelam Bakshi was born in Kenya, of Indian heritage. She is committed that all children (including inner children) flourish and be nourished and nurtured throughout life. She has built a rich tapestry of life experience and was a pioneer as the first female minority politician elected in Scotland, where she lives. Bakshi has gathered personal and professional experience as a parent, in judicial settings, and in public governance, recruitment, and equality. She is a passionate student, practitioner, trainer and coach in personal development, energy work, and transforming trauma into vitality, blending various disciplines, including writing, art, and esoteric philosophies. |
| Peg Miller | Peg Miller has “failed forward” her entire life, being guided by her deepest commitments, including each and every person living a life they love, the value of each and every human being, being a great wife and mother, and, finally, having a world that works for everyone and everything. Participating with Landmark, after first doing the est Training in 1982 in New York City, ensures she is surrounded by like-minded people. |
| Rose Grant | Rose Grant is committed to a bright world, with healthy communities and vibrant ecosystems everywhere. Working with farmers and rural communities, she is engaged in potent climate action. An early adopter of renewable energy, electric vehicles, and regenerative agriculture, Grant is exploring opportunities to reduce greenhouse gases, enrich environments, strengthen economies, and build vibrant communities. She was priveledged to write the Call for Papers & Contributions for the 2024 Conference for Global Transformation. |
| Sanjay Ramachandran, M.D. | Sanjay Ramachandran, M.D., is a family physician and an adjunct assistant professor of family medicine at Queen’s University School of Medicine in Kingston, Canada. He has worked in emergency medicine and family medicine in the United States and Canada. He graduated from University of Western Ontario Medical School in London, Canada,in 1995 and did residency there in family and emergency medicine. His wife is a nurse practitioner and he has a large primary care (family medicine) practice in the urban community of Kingston. |
| Shawne Gray, R.N. | Shawne Gray, registered nurse, is nationally certified in oncology. She holds a Bachelor of Science in nursing from Toronto Metropolitan University, Centennial, in the Brown Collaborative Nursing Degree Program. Since graduating in 2005, Gray has worked at a large cancer center in Toronto. She is president of the Ontario/Greater Toronto Area Chapter of the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology and loves creative pursuits with paper and beads. Shawne’s commitment in the world is that patients and nurses have what they need. |