Conference for Global Transformation
| Presenter | 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 worked as an environmental educator, park ranger, and trainer in nature conservation and land management. She also led Team Management & Leadership classrooms in Perth, Australia. With a Master of Science in wildlife and fisheries, she is keen on snorkeling among fish and marine plant life, looking at wildflowers, birds, other vertebrates, and invertebrates. As a custodian, she is part of the team that hosts Inquiries of the Social Commons calls. Creating a new narrative for the future is part of her commitment for every human to have a deep appreciation for their planet. |
| Allyn Silver | Allyn Silver, Landmark personal coach, is passionate about people winning, enhancing their effectiveness, and transforming their visions into reality. She collaborates closely with clients, applying unique and powerful technology to create and implement transformational solutions that yield remarkable results. Her clients consistently report that they achieve greater effectiveness, improve their communication skills, evolve their leadership, and gain power and peace of mind, while dealing with life’s circumstances. Beyond her professional life, Silver is a long-distance swimmer and triathlete. She also fosters dogs and cats, combining her love of animals with her dedication to making a positive impact in the world. |
| Andrea Parker Swenson | Andrea Parker Swenson is director of Landmark’s Personal Coaching Division, a senior coach and designated seminar leader. Passionate about contributing to the evolution of humanity, she uses her training and background to support people in unlocking their potential and discovering access to fulfilling their dreams. She works with both groups and individuals to access their power and fulfill on what is in their heart by drawing on her past experience in theater and education, and bringing playfulness and creativity to any engagement. She resides in Flagstaff, Arizona, with her husband Thomas and volunteers for AFS, a global exchange student organization. |
| Andy Monks | Andy Monks is a Landmark staff member, as a personal performance coach, the training and recruitment manager for the Wisdom Course Area, leader of the Structural Explorations vacation course, and the Wisdom Unlimited leader for Australia and New Zealand. He is also a multi-disciplinary artist with a 30-year career, having contributed to acclaimed films like Happy Feet, and running his own creative studio. Currently, his artistic practice blends traditional sculpture, drawing, and painting with digital techniques, exploring the domains of spiritual practices and being human. |
| Angela Amado | Dr. Angela Amado has led transformational programs for more than 40 years and has been a Wisdom Unlimited leader since 1994. She led Partnership Explorations, the Structural Connections vacation course, and was the head of training and recruitment for the Wisdom Course Area until 2024. She also worked professionally in the field of disability for more than 40 years in a variety of capacities, including national research, international consulting, and government policy. She has authored key books on inclusion of people with disabilities into the community, and conducted training across the United States, in Canada, Australia, and several European countries. |
| Anna Rosenberg | Anna Rosenberg is a leader trainee of the Wisdom Unlimited course, a former staff member for Landmark, and previously led the Self-Expression & Leadership Program. She is an art historian, having trained at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and as an educator at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Rosenberg previously was the curator at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, in Ontario, Canada. Grandmother of five girls, she is a dual national, living both in Canada and the United Kingdom, and is passionate about beauty and generous with freedom and joy. |
| Ariela Marshall | Ariela Marshall, former staff member for Landmark and former introduction leader, led introductions to more than 300 people and was 42 percent effective. She was source person for the Causing the Miraculous event and was on the Data Team with Landmark’s Online Program Division. Marshall has written a report from the field for the Journal of the Conference for Global Transdomation each year since 2021 and was a workshop presenter for those same conferences. She is a custodian of the Inquiries of the Social Commons, hosting the Contribution, Living as a Created Self and Public Persona calls. |
| Barbara La Valleur | Barbara La Valleur’s participation as a designated custodian of the Inquiries of the Social Commons, and as a community leader for Wisdom Unlimited for Elders, have been the most fulfilling in her 30 years with Landmark in various leadership roles. This participation allows her to deal powerfully as the care partner for her husband, who was diagnosed with memory loss due to Alzheimer’s last year. She a retired international photojournalist, having lived in Europe for 20 years. Her memoir is Front Row Gal. She and her husband live with their two-year-old cavapoo Belle in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
| Barry Pogorel | Barry Pogorel took the est Training in 1975, and went on staff with Landmark in 1976. He was center manager of three centers, including Los Angeles, and led graduate seminars for 22 years (while training new seminar leaders), led the Communication Course, and co-led the Advanced Course. He has been a transformational executive coach professionally, over the last 40 years, for corporations around the word. He currently leads a team of senior transformational consultants for Landmark called Sourcing and Generating the Work, focused on developing new transformational material so that the work continues contributing to humanity long into the future. |
| Ben Gabin | Ben Gabin got his life from moving to Costa Rica from the United States in 2024 and integrating the lessons he learned from his 15 years of experience with Landmark. Gabin creates transformation through an ontological method combined with play, plant medicine, and laughter. In his free time he freestyle raps, takes photos, and bes. |
| Bob Mueller | Bob Mueller has been a stand and commitment to create “organization transformation” as an established practice globally since 1980. He spent 30 years an executive leader transforming several Fortune 500 companies such as Ford Motor Company and Magma Copper company. He spent the second 30 years of his career building consulting practices for several transformational consulting firms including Vanto Group. He applies a broad depth of transformational consulting experience and distinctions with companies and academic institutions globally. Mueller still mentors more than 30 global leaders in organizations, entrepreneurial start-ups, and academia across five continents. |
| Brandon Erdos | Dr. Brandon Erdos is a psychiatrist who received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. He is also a seminar leader with Landmark Education. |
| Carey Gister | Carey Gister first participated in The Landmark Forum in September 1986 and Wisdom Unlimited in the early 1990s. He currently participates as a custodian of the Inquiries of the Social Commons where he hosts “Social Commons:The Memory You Forgot” call on Tuesdays at 4 PM Pacific time. This is the third conference in which he has hosted a workshop. Gister is a software engineer who lives in Marin County with his wife Cynthia and two 16-year-old children, both of whom are graduates of The Landmark Forum for Young People. |
| Cat Tews | Cat Tews, a Landmark staff member since 2003 and a consultant since 2015, is passionate about people getting that they have an impact, make a difference, and are the creator of their life. That gets fully expressed in her accountability as the Coaching Supervisor in Landmark’s Personal Coaching Division. She lives with her husband Todd and her three cats in Chehalis, Washington. |
| Cherylle Garnes | Cherylle Garnes has been a custodian of the Inquiries of the Social Commons since September 2022. She has enjoyed hosting and participating in Discourses, Living as a Created Self and Contribution inquiries. The commitment that gives her the living of her life is, “Christians all over the world would wake up, get into action, show love, joy, and peace to all. God will do the rest and that is transformation.” One way that Garnes sees this happening is for the Bible to be translated into the 3,500 languages on the planet that have no translation. This gives access to everyone. |
| Chet Burgess | Chet Burgess engages in inquiries whenever he can, and one of his joys is hosting inquiries into Discourses and Living as a Created Self. He also brings the opportunity of inquiry to people as they develop themselves in being a leader as their natural self- expression and bringing power, freedom, and peace of mind in the face of everything in life. His commitment is, “everyone in the world be present to freedom and in touch with the joy and the miracle of life, free to be, and free to act, with love expressed.” |
| Chris Kirtz | Charles [Chris] Kirtz considers himself a “lifer,” having done the first est Training in Washington D.C. in April 1975. Since then, he’s taken virtually every course and program Landmark offers, held nearly every assisting post, and led in a number of instances. He considers being a custodian of the Inquiries of the Social Commons a singular honor and something that calls him to be and is his full self-expression. His commitment is, “listening and creating listening environments in which people discover they belong, are one, and already in a natural dance with word — their commitment[s].” |
| Corrina Sephora | Corrina Sephora is an artist, metal sculptor, and painter. She loves Wisdom and lives, works, and plays in Atlanta, Georgia. Sephora is committed to empowerment, dreams fulfilled, artistic self-expression and legacy. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in metals and sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art in 1995, and Master of Fine Arts in fine arts and sculpture in 2005 from Georgia State University. She exhibited in the context of the Venice Biennale 2024, is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic Center, and the personal collection Sir Elton John. |
| Daniel Kamanga | Daniel Kamanga brings more than 33 years of expertise in business and finance to address Africa’s widespread failure in leadership. He launched the Africa Leadership Transformation Foundation in March 2019 and is the executive director. The vision of the Africa Leadership Transformation Foundation is transforming leadership as the key driver of an Africa that works for everyone and targets the creation of at least one million leaders in 10 countries in the next 25 years. The foundation has gained mastery in online offerings, the most recent being a training for more than 700 women leaders from 20 African countries. |
| Danielle Dal Cortivo | Danielle Dal Cortivo is an entrepreneur and conversation creator. She is the co-founder of raize the roof, creator of Free the V, and Managing Director of Kayo Consulting. She is passionate about people experiencing themselves as extraordinary leaders who fulfil on what matters to them. What connects her passions is a curiosity for creating conversations that make a difference. Around her, people enquire and see what’s never been seen, discover and express what’s never been expressed; and do what’s never been done. |
| Dave Hoon | Dave Hoon has been a Landmark staff member, a leader of the Self Expression & Leadership Program, a co-leader of Wisdom Unlimited, a senior facilitator in training for the Facilitated Wisdom Unlimited course, and is currently the registration fulfillment manager for the Advanced Offerings of the Wisdom Course Area. He has been exploring inquiry as access to being for more than 30 years. |
| David Flattery | Dave Flattery leads strategic initiatives for one of the business units of DuPont. He is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt in process improvement, teaches and leads programs in statistics, data analysis, and process improvement. This is his sixth year participating on the State of the World Scorecard Team. He previously presented a poster and co-led a workshop at the Conference for Global Transformation, inquiring into listening for others in the domains of religious belief, agnosticism, and atheism. Flattery is committed to thriving and prosperous communities and serves on the board of directors of the Santa Barbara United Way. |
| 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 Lanmark courses. He runs a company that installs green roofs and is committed to sustainability, learning, family, and helping people be free from their limiting beliefs. |
| David Novell | David Novell and his wife of 50 years, Sue, live in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. They celebrate family, friends, community, and music, and have participated in transformational work since 1982. |
| David Ritscher | David Ritscher’s commitment is, by 2030 revolutionary medical pathways are routinely being created, through understanding data as access to understanding physiology. He invents medical devices, and is on advisory boards for new startups. His inventions include devices to monitor heart rhythms, assess athletic performance, and treat heart arrhythmias and sleep-disordered breathing. He holds 12 patents and has 26 publications. Ritscher has been in coaching with the Landmark consultants continuously for 14 years, is a Creation of Freedom graduate, and three times a Consultants Training Program graduate. He plays piano and French horn, and has done 12 inline-skating marathons. |
| Deirdre Donovan | Deirdre Donovan currently works with homelessness data, with previous careers in technology, academia, and government service. She is a staunch advocate of the view that measurement is access to “what’s so.” In becoming fully aware of the global, social, and environmental obstacles to human well-being, Donovan believes we will need to be able to measure our progress, adding, “We increase our skill in confronting the physical reality of these obstacles through observation and measurement, and discovering what it takes to overcome them. We are then empowered to take effective action in building a world that works for everyone.” |
| Della DiPietro | Della DiPietro, senior personal performance coach and former Communication Course leader for Landmark, loves empowering graduates to create and fulfill their dreams — whether in career, finances, health, or relationships. She has both excelled and failed during careers as a television journalist, global corporate executive, and local politician, and has discovered the opportunity that failure can provide in both business and personal life. She and her husband love running, kayaking, and playing cards with her 98-year-old mother, who lives with them. |
| Diane Dickey | Diane Dickey’s life is a continual inquiry into transformation, inquiry, and growth and development. She creates worlds and spaces of beauty whether it be with art or in conversation. She loves her family and is a wife, mother, grandmother and a native Texan. Dickey is a designated custodian of the Inquiries of the Social Commons, hosting the Contribution, Public Persona, and Social Commons calls, having participated in Landmark’s work since 1986. Her promise for the world is, a world of transformation where each and every person has access to unlimited, ongoing growth and development by the year 2030. |
| Dr. Dolly Costello | “Dr. Dolly” Costello, Ph.D., has been involved in transformational work since 1979. She obtained her doctorate from University of California, Berkeley, and a post-doctorate certificate in the neuropsychology of learning and social-emotional development. She specializes in assessment and intervention of children and adults who have autism, ADHD, and other mental health challenges. She participates in the Landmark’s Wisdom Course Area as a custodian of the Inquiries of the Social Commons. Her commitment with the world is, “all people live with a passion for life itself and experience a lightness of being.” |
| Dominic Scales | Dominic Scales was born in Leeds, United Kingdom, and grew up in the Bavarian Alps in southern Germany. An astrophysicist and systems engineer, he spends most of his time at the computer. Keeping track of things is a big part of his job. Over the last 10 years as the European champion for the Conference for Global Transformation, he experienced his fair share of failure regarding to his game of increasing the number of European participants. Creating and maintaining a new context for failure proved key. Scales is a private pilot, part-time politician, and did The Landmark Forum in 2007. |
| The Rev. Dr. Eileen Epperson | The Rev. Dr. Eileen L. Epperson has been a Presbyterian clergywoman for 35 years. She has worked as a hospice, hospital, college and nursing-home chaplain. She is a trained interim specialist for churches in transition between long-term pastors. She has been active in interfaith dialogue and a frequent presenter at the Parliament of the World’s Religions. She has facilitated weekly grief support groups for more than 17 years. Her book, Finding Light in the Shadow of Grief, is circulating widely in the United States, as well as in areas in Africa. |
| Eric Englart | Eric Englart, a former civil engineer who safeguarded nuclear facilities and transformed landscapes, is living his commitment for the world—people expressing their passions. In 2015, a personal trial — the illness of his father — revealed the broader potential of his skills, leading him to a new mission: enhancing lives with love, abundance, and effectiveness. Englart’s journey from engineering physical structures to shaping brighter futures underscores the power of resilience and purpose. To fulfill this commitment, he created Living the Designed Life, where people discover and design their lives to fulfill their passions through simplicity, ease, and fun. |
| Erin Meyer | Erin Meyer lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband, and two dogs. She has one adult child. She earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in biology from University of California, Santa Barbara. Meyer currently works in research development at University of Utah, where she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience/genetics and was a formerly a research assistant professor. Additionally, Meyer is an event leader for Landmark, a yoga therapist practicing yoga for 43 years, and a Heartmath interventions specialist. She holds keen interests in social justice and disability studies. |
| Eroca Lowe | Eroca Lowe began her journey of personal transformation in the est Training in 1973. She joined Landmark’s staff in 1982, working over 15 years in the Consulting Services Division, which transitioned into the Wisdom Course Area. After leaving Landmark’s staff, Lowe worked as a business consultant with leaders and teams in Fortune 500 firms, both domestic and international. In 2008, she founded Accelerated Outcomes, offering small business success and emerging technology education. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences and Oceanography and particularly enjoys world travel with her husband Kevin, outdoor activities, and her work in transformation. |
| Felicia Nagamatsu | Felicia Nagamatsu is a global advocate for full spectrum intelligence, where neurodiversity is natural, valued, and celebrated. She partners with people who have gifts of dyslexia, autism, ADHD, obsessive compulsiveness, bipolar, and more. Leveraging 30 years’ experience with neurodiversity, Nagamatsu founded TrainYourGenius.com. She helps people remove shame, restore confidence, and master their inborn gifts. She promotes whole brain learning, which benefits all learners, while bringing equity in education for people with dyslexia, ADHD, and autism. Speaker, teacher, coach, breakthrough expert, author, and inventor holding two patents, her greatest achievement is a neurodiverse marriage partnership, 47 years strong, and counting. |
| Frances Griffiths | Frances Griffiths, M.D., practiced family medicine until 2008. She opened and ran an office in Ottawa, Canada, until 1988 when she sailed off to the Bahamas with her husband and three children. She opened a second practice in North Carolina where, during her presidency of the Johnston County Medical Society, she proposed a mandate for universal medical coverage with great support from doctors. This was defeated by the insurance lobby and, for her efforts, she received an umbrella from the North Carolina Medical Society. She is retired and lives on Vancouver Island with the same husband of 52 years. |
| Frances Pratt | Frances Pratt is managing partner of Fervid Partners, providing unique psychosocial safety education and training for workplaces across all sectors. She is co-founder of Forward Equality, author of Graced with Womanhood; A Memoir of Things Unsaid, and producer of the YouTube podcast series, “Beyond the Small Talk” with women in conversation. Her career began as a chartered accountant and has since included executive and leadership roles with Vinnies, Anglicare, Laurel House Sexual Assault Services, Tasmanian Leaders Inc., Reconciliation Tasmania, and Lifeline. Pratt is also an apprentice course leader for Wisdom Unlimited in Australia and New Zealand. |
| Frank Quinlan | Frank Quinlan is a Medicare insurance professional, senior athlete, and is actively involved in his community. He is committed to making a difference for others and is committed to what the Conference for Global Transformation has to offer. Quinlan was Landmark’s Source Team leader for Kansas City and created the first physical workspace there for the organization. He also created a production supervisor training program, and led the Landmark Kansas City Assisting Program, including leading introductions for several years. He is a former course supervisor and was on the Partnership Team for several years, lastly as a global leader. |
| Gari Thompson | Gari Thompson has participated in Landmark since 1998. As a custodian of the Inquiries of the Social Commons, she is dazzled by what occurs in the space of looking together beyond what we already know. She is a lifelong student of the connection between horses and humans, and is passionate about people having the deepest, fullest relationships possible, with ourselves, with each other, and with all of life. |
| Gary Kendrick | Gary Kendrick is a champion for marine nature conservation. From local to a global scale, he has taken action to protect marine environments. In the face of conflict, failure, argument, and others’ unwillingness to compromise, Kendrick has been persistent. Landmark’s Wisdom community, especially Partnership Explorations, has shown him that generating a new context — for sharing our love to protect the beauty and diversity of our natural world — is a starting point. His workshop at this year’s conference is an opportunity to learn from others’ experiences and knowledge to generate play and acceptance in his chosen path in life. |
| Geoffrey Fenn | Geoffrey Fenn is an agricultural scientist by training who, after 25 years of research in government agencies, set off on a journey of private enterprise before finding himself back in soil and water, in research and development. His commitment to the world is to promote and facilitate an adequate supply of fresh water, sustainably sourced, and affordable for everyone. He has created a business using new technologies to maximize cost-effectiveness at the same time as reducing energy and water use in drainage, irrigation, and groundwater recharge. The business is an “overnight success” that has taken 10 years so far! |
| George Finsrud | George Finsrud, a custodian of the Inquiries of the Social Commons, is inspired by collaborative effort, a give and take of ideas and enthusiasms, profound honesties, and good jokes. He says that he loves to wake up with a schedule and discover how far off the day unfolded with still a sense of accomplishment. |
| Heather Shapter | Heather Shapter is executive director of Crossroads International, which works with partners in Sub-Saharan Africa to advance rights, reduce poverty, and increase access to justice for one million women and girls. Shapter is also chair of the Forum Board of Directors. Forum is the most significant global network of organizations that work with volunteers to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. She has held leadership roles in some of the world’s most respected international non-governmental organizations, in the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. She lives in Toronto, Canada, with her two sons, Keyvan and Kamran. |
| Hilary Burns | Hilary Arnow Burns grew up in Westport, Connecticut. She graduated from 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 best 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 TikTok following, and a website, GettingRealwithHilary.com. Her commitment is that we all elevate the conversation and consciousness of the planet together. |
| Jane Grandbouche | Jane Best Grandbouche led courses and programs for Landmark for 25 years, including Wisdom Unlimited for 14 years. Her passions include the environment and yoga. She has grown more than 100,000 trees, shrubs and wildflowers and has been a student of transformation, yoga and meditation for the past 50 years. Along with her husband Brad, she has a wholesale book business and resides on 10 acres in Sarasota, Florida. She has two daughters and three grandchildren. |
| Jerry Fishman | Jerry Fishman has been leading transformational programs since 2011, and has led more than 36 Wisdom Unlimited courses. He has led Wisdom Unlimited in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, and Toronto. He has been the head of recruitment and a member of the training team for the Wisdom Course Area for five years and also leads A Life That Sings vacation course. He previously worked professionally in theater, film, and television for 30 years and founded Kilroy Productions, a theater, film and television production company. He lives in Denver, Cape Cod, and Mexico. |
| Jim Hanson | Jim Hanson, a United States Navy veteran, has 37 years of leadership and staff development experience as the founder and managing partner of Sonoma Rentals and Wine Country Party, an equipment, party rentals, and special event business. He brought leadership to his staff of 130 people, and served customers with the formula “be friendly, helpful, and interested.” In community-based organizations, he served as president of his local chamber of commerce, the Wine Country Film Festival, Sonoma Valley Education Roundtable, and vice-president of the Sonoma Valley Boys & Girls Club. He has participated with Landmark for 45 years. |
| Joan Bordow | Joan Bordow has led transformational programs for more than 20,000 people. She has written eight books and won the R.T. French Tastemaker’s award (which has since become the James Beard Foundation Award). She has three children, three grandchildren, and has been married to Robin Bordow for 52 years. |
| John Corbiere | John Corbiere has been participating with Landmark since 1975. He was an Episcopal priest for 33 years, graduating from the Yale Divinity School and serving parishes and church schools up and down the East Coast. He is a past staff member and he participated extensively with both The Hunger Project and the Mastery Foundation, traveling to West Africa and Ireland in support of the transformational work of these organizations. He is presently part of several pathways in the Wisdom Course Area, providing conversations that make a difference. He resides in Salisbury, Connecticut. |
| Judy Flattery | Judy Flattery completed the est Training in 1981, and dozens of Landmark courses since then. She has a bachelor’s in chemical engineering, a master’s in business administration from University of California, Irvine, and a certificate in Interior Design from Santa Barbara City College. Her Self-Expression & Leadership Program project, connecting hundreds of family members through a family calendar, has been published annually since 1993. President and newsletter editor of the Humanist Society of Santa Barbara, she has a passion for transforming those impacted by mass incarceration. Her commitment is, “powerful, authentic self-expression, and empowering listening be available for all people.” |
| Judy-Lee Chen Sang | Judy-Lee Chen Sang has faced adversity head on. In 2016 she confronted the decision of mastectomy to live. The choice seems obvious yet the struggle of not experiencing life as a failure being a woman without breasts was real. Through recovery and insomnia, art, her love of photography, merged with digital technology, created healing. She wants to make a difference in bringing awareness to the variety of experiences one may go through when dealing with breast cancer, mastectomy and trauma. Chen Sang is a Landmark personal performance coach, public speaker, entrepreneur, and author of I Cry: Hope Meditation & Guidance. |
| Julia Dederer | Julia Dederer is director of organizational development with the Foundation for Climate Restoration. She advises on key initiatives and strategic relationship development and is responsible for the internal development of the organization. She brings to this role more than 40 years of transformational leadership, including as a Landmark staff member for 28 years, leading Wisdom Unlimited, Partnership Explorations, and being accountable for the training and development of Wisdom course leaders. |
| Julia Johnson | Julia Johnson has been the manager of the Conference for Global Transformation since 2013 and has participated in Landmark’s programs for nearly 48 years, including 14 years as a course supervisor of The Landmark Forum and Advanced Course. Prior to going on Landmark’s staff, Johnson ran a marketing and public relations agency in San Diego for 17 years. She holds a degree in business marketing from University of Phoenix and her commitment for the world is for people to know themselves as world leaders, able to make a difference in whatever area they are most passionate. |
| Kaer Soutthard | Kaer Soutthard has dedicated her life to supporting programs for equality, early childhood education, and initiatives that encourage compassion, well-being, spiritual fulfillment, and social justice. She has been engaged with The Hunger Project, Pachamama Alliance, and West Marin Senior Services, striving to foster a generous, kinder, more positive world and future. She is passionate about exploring new ideas, possibilities, and alternative aspects of life, and her motivation lies in achieving balance, harmony, caring, and workability. Soutthard says she is deeply connected to the beauty of design, nature, and the cosmos. |
| 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. |
| Kathryn Lusby | Kathryn Lusby is a Wisdom Unlimited graduate, ongoing participant, and Landmark Academy member with a commitment to being a Wisdom course leader. Professionally, she is a career public servant in the Canadian federal government. As a wife, step-mother, sister, friend, and employee, Lusby is the possibility of love and joy, and is a stand for making a difference in the lives of others. |
| Kristen Mangione | Kristen Mangione is a professional choreographer, dancer, teacher, healing artist, and the founder of Dance Alchemy for the Soul. She is committed to transforming the world through dance. She choreographs and creates experiences that combine dance, movement improvisation, meditation and healing for transformation. |
| Leslie Carruthers | Leslie Carruthers, Landmark participant since 2004, is president of The Search Guru, a generative artificial intelligence and marketing agency, serving medium- to enterprise-sized businesses in North America. With more than two decades of experience in internet and search-engine marketing, Carruthers has presented at national conferences and is recognized as an authority on content marketing, search-engine optimization, and conversion optimization. She has worked with startups to Fortune 50 companies, including Advance Auto Parts, Cleveland Clinic, and General Electric. Carruthers produced the Retail & Ecommerce Forum at Content Marketing World for three years, bringing energetic, inspiring, and practical insights to her audiences. |
| Linda Carroll | Linda Carroll is a wife, mother and grandmother, with a background in sales. She was actively involved in her children’s education since their pre-school days. Since completing The Landmark Forum 23 years ago, she has spent 20 years participating in Landmark’s Family Division, and, more recently, five years in the Wisdom Course Area. She is committed to ongoing growth and development and passionate about all people, young people and teens included, living their best lives, engaged in community, empowered and fulfilled, and creating futures that weren’t going to happen anyway — experiencing their lives being nothing other than miraculous! |
| Linda Russell | Linda Russell took The Landmark Forum in 2011, completed Landmark’s Curriculum for Living in 2012 and regularly participates in seminars, Wisdom Unlimited courses, the Team Management & Leadership Program. She became involved in the Conference for Global Transformation in 2017, participating on the Hospitality Team for two years. She subsequently published two reports in the Journal of the Conference for Global Transformation and co-led two workshops at the conference. Russell hosts Inquiries of the Social Commons as a custodian; her commitment is all people shifting “right-wrong” to “workable-unworkable,” creating uncommon togetherness. |
| Lori Watkins | Lori Watkins was born in Santiago, Chile, and, as an infant, was adopted by American diplomats serving at the United States Embassy in Santiago. Living in underdeveloped countries much of her childhood, she is a “third-culture kid.” Watkins absorbed the cultures, history, and traditions of the countries where she lived and brought it all to her work as a vocational nurse for the past 23 years. Watkins, now a holistic, integrated creative art therapist, leads art workshops for veterans, healthcare workers, and other community members. Her commitment for the world is, “all beings are heard, including human beings.” |
| 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. |
| Marget Ayer | Marget Ayer has been telling stories all her life, starting with her dog and then her baby sister. She declared herself as a novelist in Wisdom Unlimited, and has been running a successful writing critique group for more than 30 years. She found writing from a prompt was an excellent way to break a block and several of her stories grew from the short pieces that the prompts inspired. |
| Mark Blumler | Mark Blumler, a Taoist since childhood, fell in love with California wildflowers and studied plant ecology in college, eventually becoming an associate professor of biogeography at Binghampton University in New York. Currently, he is committed to humans experiencing how they are in nature, his shorthand for which is Taoist ecology, also known as “non-equilibrium” ecology. |
| Mark Krauss | Mark Krauss is a custodian of the Inquiries of the Social Commons, a husband of 45 years, father, grandfather, colleague, engineer, experimenter in the living of life, and gentleman farmer. During his career, Krauss noticed that, while difficult, the problems of engineering are easy to solve when compared to those of being human. He’s learning to love loud shirts, and has discovered for himself the value of inquiry in having people expand their views of life, and to act on what they discover for themselves. He lives happily in Mariposa, California. |
| Mary Icaza | Mary Icaza is a senior Landmark personal coach and program leader and has led Landmark programs for more than 38 years. She has extensive experience working with individuals and teams, and focuses on empowering her clients to produce breakthroughs with ease – leading to outstanding results in areas of life that are important to them. She has successfully supported people taking on large challenges, enhancing their effectiveness, and turning their vision into reality. Prior to joining Landmark’s coaching team, Icaza’s professional experience included growing a successful software training and consulting business with clients including top universities, banks, and hospitals. |
| Mary Wells | Mary Wells 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. |
| Merilyn Fenn | Merilyn Fenn is a custodian of the Inquiries of the Social Commons. Interested in personal relationships and communication, she has delivered communication programs to college students, married and pre-married couples. After completing a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in marine biology, her career was in teaching biology and environmental science to college students. Fenn first experienced The Landmark Forum in 2005, was an introduction leader for Landmark, experienced the Wisdom Unlimited course in 2013 and the Partnership Explorations course in 2019, along with the Inquiry Explorations program. She thinks inquiry is the pathway to world transformation. |
| Meryl Sher | Meryl Sher attended Juilliard and Oberlin to pursue opera and worked in corporate America over 40 years. She still produces and performs live/live-streamed concerts. Sher is currently creating a fundraiser for Metropolitan Opera Young Artists’ Program, which recognizes past opera luminaries, giving older singers the chance to sing at the Met and have their dreams fulfilled. She was a Self-Expression & Leadership Program leader, inspiring and empowering others, and regularly participates in the 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. |
| Neal Abramson | Neal Abramson has a master’s degree in criminal justice and a second master’s in creative writing. He is the author of You Can Choose Your Life: A Guide to Experiencing More Peace, Freedom, and Happiness Right Now. Together with other Landmark graduates, Abramson created a non-profit organization called Prisons to Partnerships, with the goal of partnering with organizations to reduce recidivism and transform lives. The group’s first online conference was offered in November 2024 to rave reviews. Abramson is committed that all life is honored, respected, safe, and free! He has been participating in Landmark’s work since 1996. |
| Nina Master | Nina Master has a Bachelor of Science in health and a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, specializing in state-of-the-art Japanese acupuncture protocols for chronic health conditions. Working in the Australian health industry for 30 years and the Toyohari system for 20 years, she is Toyohari Austalasia’s Academic Dean in Queensland, Australia, and has passion for serving people toward health, wellbeing and vitality. As a designated custodian, she hosts Inquiries of the Social Commons, including Living as a Created Self, Public Persona and Social Commons. Master is committed to people being one in the space of it all, with love and vitality. |
| Owen Coffey | Owen Coffey is a Landmark consultant, leads the Advanced Offerings of the Wisdom Course Area, and delivers one-to-one personal coaching. He first became a Landmark staff member in 2005 and holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Columbia University. Coffey and his wife Rebecca live with their three children in Dorset, Vermont. |
| Paolo Visentin | Paolo Visentin, inspired by the teachings of Werner Erhard, has a long career in his family’s real estate business. A photographer and filmmaker, he often travels between two homes in Toronto and Salt Lake City, pondering questions like, “What does it mean to be a person?” “What lies beyond who he wound up being?” “How deeply can he connect with others?” His favorite film is “2001: A Space Odyssey.” |
| Paul Freyermuth | Paul Freyermuth has been participating in Landmark since 1994 and in the Wisdom Course area since 1996. After completing Power & Contribution in 2002, he developed a promise for the world of, “all people joyfully playing, working together, igniting miracles.” He’s working on fulfilling his promise with a book on happiness in the workplace, inspirational videos, and hosting inquiry calls on how to fulfill a promise. He has a master’s degree in organizational development and leadership, and a passion for positive psychology tools for using everyone’s ideas to forward anything that is important to a company or individual. |
| Peg Miller | Peg Miller brings her entire life to everything she does, including this year’s workshop at the Conference for Global Transformation. She has been married for 58 years, has a loving family of 30 people, and has worked as a physical therapist, drug and alcohol counselor, somatic psychotherapist, and herself is a recovering alcoholic and an adult child of alcoholic/dysfunctional parents. She shares inside all of this as a reliable access to loving one’s self, which is an access to relationships of love. |
| Peri Steffenhagen | Peri Steffenhagen is a Landmark staff member, leading Wisdom Unlimited in the Northwestern United States, as well as Denver and the Southwestern United States. She is also a global leader in the Landmark Academy of Wisdom Leading Fundamentals. Steffenhagen enjoys working from her desk overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. She belongs to two outrigger canoe clubs, paddling twice weekly as part of her wellbeing regimen. Reliable for generating miracles, she recently became engaged to her fiancé Paul Milligan, a dream come true for them both. She is a stand for all of humanity living their dreams and beyond. |
| Peter Fiekowsky | Peter Fiekowsky, author of Climate Restoration: The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race, is a physicist, educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Silicon Valley entrepreneur with 27 patents. He has 30 years’ experience as a citizen lobbyist for poverty and climate issues, and recently has been working to build the organizations required to ensure the survival and flourishing of humanity. His mission is to leave a world we’re proud of to our children. To that end, he founded the Foundation for Climate Restoration, Methane Action, Climate Restoration Safety & Governance Board, Humanity Day and, most recently, restoretheclimate.org. |
| Rachel Barwell | Rachel Barwell, a neurodiversity-specialist educator, promotes equal access to dyslexia remedies. Her commitments span social justice, environmental, and equity issues, and she works to transform the pace and effectiveness of climate adaptation and restoration action. She is a founding member of the InnoVuntu Initiative, which addresses the intersection of critical problems in Zambia. In that role, she helps stakeholders transform Zambia’s food systems, for a future where’s Zambia’s people, environment, and economy are thriving. Barwell is also a founding member of the African Women’s Leadership and Mental Wellbeing Program, drawing together thousands of women across Africa to develop their leadership. |
| Ray Stoddard | Ray Stoddard was co-chairperson of the Conference for Global Transformation, with Laurie Ford, from its inception, until 2013. He previously led Landmark’s Self-Expression & Leadership Program and was a staff member for Landmark. He retired as a business consultant in 2018 and is now a senior facilitator in training for the Facilitated Wisdom Unlimited course in Europe. |
| Reza Razeghi | Reza Razeghi is a retired executive for Landmark’s Personal Coaching Division. His life, simply told, is about people being well — people serving their communities with joy, compassion, and fulfillment. Razeghi stands for a world that works for everyone, with no one and nothing left out. Within that stand, he has coached thousands of individuals to find purpose in service to a better future for their communities. |
| Rich Schuster | Rich Schuster is one of the elders of the Wisdom Course Area. He is committed that all people have access to the created dimension of being, that they are thereby empowered to be up to great and challenging work. In addition to having had a successful career in physics and engineering, he is a student of — and has trained many people in — practices of communication to support aliveness and productivity. Rich and Noreen Schuster celebrate more than 40 years of marriage and participation in service of transformation. |
| Robert Thomas | Robert Thomas has been a geospatial professional for more than 20 years, mapping and analyzing environmental data. He helped start the Earth@Peace organization and the Bordercats Working Group to address climate change, endangered species recovery, disaster response and recovery, and empowering communities most affected by these issues, through education and research. His commitment is unlimited transformation, adventure, and harmony with everyone and everything on the planet; a world at peace. Thomas is also a member of the State of World Scorecard Team and has an interest in connecting conference attendees’ projects to the state of the world. |
| Robin Kermode | Robin Kermode is a primary school teacher with experience creating and leading educational programs that engage young people through collaborative play, dramatic inquiry, stories, dance, and games. She developed two key programs for schools: 1) Stories in Action, a program where students explored roles such as great sports players, rugby players, and sustainable heroes and 2) Rotoroa Island Education Program. This initiative involved students in becoming Kaitiaki, or guardians of nature. Kermode was a weekly nature columnist for the Waiheke Gulf News and currently works as a primary school substitute teacher, focusing on climate and self-restoration in Auckland, New Zealand. |
| Robyn Maitland | Robyn Maitland is a creative artist bringing transformative learning ideas to organizations and government with more than 25 years of experience. Currently serving within the State Department of Health for the Commonwealth of Virginia, Maitland’s commitment is that all people experience magnificence in genius expressions of passion and purpose. |
| 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 privileged to write the Call for Papers and Other Contributions for the 2024 Conference for Global Transformation. |
| Saeed Seyed | Saeed Seyed has been in leadership positions for many years in the technology field and has worked for large corporations in telecommunications, computing, and graphics. As a leader in innovation with 20 patents, he has had responsibility and accountability for managing teams globally. He has been engaged in the area of transformation over 30 years and is currently leading Werner Erhard and Michael Jensen’s course, Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership. He has been married for more than 30 years and has two daughters. |
| Sean Potter | Sean Potter is an artist with passions for vitality, health, and artistic expressions. Musical expression is his focus in his spare time. Professionally, Potter is a service technician in a power division with United Rentals. His commitment is for full self-expression and that everyone is heard and appreciated. |
| Sel Hwahng | Sel J. Hwahng, Ph.D., (they/them/their) is assistant professor of women’s, gender, health, and sexuality studies at Towson University and recently received a Master of Science degree in cardiovascular epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health. Hwahng edited and co-authored a book entitled Global LGBTQ Health and has received numerous honors and awards, including being inducted into the Delta Omega Public Health Honorary Society, Alpha Chapter. They have led the Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership course to graduate and undergraduate students at several higher educational institutions in the United States and India. |
| Selma Harwell | Selma Harwell, master spiritual healer, integrates ancient healing gifts that were awakened by an early childhood trauma and led her toward living as a modern-day medicine woman. Her commitment to motherhood started then and, through Landmark, developed into helping mothers as creators of world peace and healers. Harwell’s spiritual connection is also accessed through poetry and pottery. Participating with Landmark for more than two decades, she is a stand for family and global contribution. As a custodian of the Inquiries of the Social Commons, her development contributes to peace for herself, her family and healing the world. |
| Shafeea Zubair | Shafeea Zubair works on the intersection of leadership for social transformation and well-being. Much of her life’s work has been in the Maldives, leading transformative initiatives in education policy, teacher education, adult education and skills training, women in development, and political reform. She co-designed the Zambian Climate Leadership Transformation Summit in October 2020, which was an inquiry into climate leadership led by the Africa Leadership Transformation Foundation and University of Zambia. Zubair is also a founding member of the InnoVuntu Initiative and the African Women’s Leadership and Mental Wellbeing Program. |
| Shirley Loo | Shirley Loo has been participating with Landmark since she did The Landmark Forum more than 30 years ago. She regularly participated around the Washington, D.C., Wisdom Unlimited course, which included two years as registration fulfillment team leader. The D.C. course was first in registration effectiveness her first year and tied for first place her second year. Her commitment is, “people are thriving, enjoying life, and leading great lives.” She is a custodian of the Inquiries of the Social Commons and hosts one of the weekly Contribution calls. During her current Wisdom Unlimited course, she created herself as “joyful contribution.” |
| Stan Carpenter | Stan Carpenter is curious. He earned a university degree in cultural anthropology, ceramics, and architecture. Carpenter participated in The Landmark Forum in 1994, opening him to new possibilities that included living and working in England. Since retiring in 2006, he has been participating in the Wisdom Course Area and in numerous Landmark developmental programs. His commitments are most recently being expressed in the Landmark Training Academy and in developing capacities for crafting conversation and conversational spaces where transformation may occur. He is married with Jerry Baden. |
| Steve Cuvin | Steve Cuvin was raised between New York and Paris. He began working in restaurants at age 12 and co-owned a restaurant in Montreal at age 20. He collaborated with his mother, a fashion designer, and they designed clothing together in New York. He painted houses in San Francisco for three decades, studied interior architecture, and presently owns a fireplace store in northern California. He is a graduate of The Landmark Forum since 1989. Cuvin is a father to two grown daughters, Fiona and Hannah, is married to Jean Morris, lives in Occidental, California, and is a pug lover. |
| Sudha Kumar | Sudha Kumar,holds a doctorate in clinical pharmacy, is a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist,and currently leads teams, trains, and mentors clinicians in pursuing and in delivering excellence in health care. Her passion lies in providing excellent care for patients. Kumar has been participating in this work since 1996 and is one of the designated custodians of the Inquiries of the Social Commons. She is committed to people experiencing vitality and vibrance with play and leisure. |
| Susan E. Jones | Susan Jones, author, workshop creator, and public speaker, combines dynamic visionary leadership with a powerful passion for co-creation, cultivating a unique environment for personal and professional transformation. She is a founding member and leadership team partner with Empowering Women Alliance, who’s global vision is to support women discovering their personal power and authentic self-expression through published authorship and other collaborative offerings. Jones is also a national community coordinator, trainer and mentor with People4People, an inspired organization dedicated to reviving local economies through supporting small businesses, securing supply chains, and generating profit sharing for business members and individual community educators. |
| Susan Halim | Susan Halim is committed to a world where everyone embraces and celebrates their and each other’s contributions. As an engineer with passion for growth and development, Halim has unique expertise in both supply chains and human interactions. She has more than 30 years’ experience in the corporate world and as an entrepreneur and holds a master’s degree in engineering from University of Toronto. As a custodian of the Inquiries of the Social Commons, she hosts the Contribution inquiry on Mondays. She leads a thriving team in a global corporation, co-owns a flourishing business, and serves as a certified strength coach. |
| Susan Harrington | Susan Harrington, a Landmark personal coach, is highly creative with keen ability and skill to empower individuals with barriers that have stopped or constrained them. She is relentless in pursuing and creating unpredictable results and extraordinary performance. Harrington has 35 years of experience as a business coach and leader and holds a bachelor’s in communications from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. As a Landmark program leader, she has led to thousands of people with diverse backgrounds, always with a commitment to impact participants’ performance in areas that matter most to them and impact satisfaction with their lives. |
| Susie Fraser | Susie Fraser is passionate about all of us cherishing the Earth, giving ourselves the sustainable future of a world where human and natural ecosystems are honored, valued, and nurtured. She loves inquiring, and experimenting with generative listening and speaking. She creates collages as a practice, exploring the language of images. Fraser sees politics and politicians as resources – a valuable and fascinating exercise in reframing. She loves her friends and attending classical music and opera. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with Paddy Gaul. This is her 25th Conference for Global Transformation. |
| Terry Kirtz | Terry Kirtz, a wife, mother, and grandmother, is committed to empowering others to live a fulfilling life. She completed more than three decades in the public schools sector and “rewired” her life to support others in having a life of contribution and participation in those communities that are important to them. Leaving Maryland and moving to Idaho has offered her an opportunity to continue her work in the brain injury community by becoming a new board member of the Brain Injury Alliance of Idaho. She also empowers and enables those who cause transformation, herself included. |
| Tobin White | Tobin White, source of and designer of the programs in Landmark’s Wisdom Course Area and Personal Coaching Division, has been a Landmark staff member for 24 years. He is a senior consultant and senior personal performance coach. He studied art and design at Virginia Commonwealth University and had a successful career as an interior designer before joining Landmark. |
| Tracy Hunt | Tracy Hunt has enjoyed a lengthy career as an operations manager for several law firms and has a side business as a personal trainer and wellness coach. She considers herself an ambassador in the global community of transformation and is passionate about prison reform, reducing homelessness, and supporting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. Hunt is actively involved in the Skid Row Running Club, law enforcement, veterans’ causes, the Compassion Prison Project, and the Transformation Foundation, and is a former introduction leader for Landmark. Her commitment for the world is, “by 2030, all people will be honored and recognized as family.” |
| True Shields | True Shields (they/them) is a full-time staff member in Landmark’s Wisdom Course Area, serving as the operations manager and content manager of the Conference for Global Transformation, the editor of the conference journal, and the manager of the Inquiry Explorations program that runs year-round between conferences. Shields is a linguist, avid language learner (currently studing Scottish Gàidhlig), and advocate of the Antinet Zettelkasten for creating a personal-thinking companion to turn content consumption into ever-expanding creative expression in the world. Their commitments include, “love, community, pride, and joy,” their cat Sasha’s neighborhood adventures, and the revitalization of endangered languages worldwide. |
| Wendy Keilin | Wendy Keilin is committed to creating the next world economy for a world that works for everyone. Where a powerful few control much of the world’s resources, what does equity look like? In a future where human labor is no longer required, what kind of economy could we create? A transformational leadership consultant to high-performance teams and leaders, Keilin’s work led to this inquiry and provides a springboard for forwarding it. On the State of the World Scorecard Team, she inquires, “If transformation starts locally, how do we measure its emergence? Who measures? With what agenda? What could we measure?” |