2024 Keynote Speakers

Josh Tickell is an internationally recognized author, film director, speaker, and expert on regeneration and the climate. In 2008, he released his first feature film “FUEL,” which won the Sundance Audience Award for Best Documentary. Producing and directing with his wife Rebecca Tickell, he followed the movie up with 20 critically acclaimed, award-winning films. In 2017, Josh Tickell’s book, Kiss the Ground, How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body and Ultimately Save the World became an Amazon bestseller in four categories. The documentary, “Kiss the Ground,” won 75 awards, became a mainstay for agriculture hearings in Washington D.C. and was released on Netflix to rave reviews by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and a 99% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Rebecca Tickell is a director, producer, and environmental activist. Her career in film began as a child when she performed in “Prancer,” John D. Hancock’s 1989 Christmas classic. Her environmentally conscious documentaries include “The Big Fix,” which was selected for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. In 2020, the Tickells’ film, “Kiss the Ground,” starring Woody Harrelson, launched on Netflix with a reach of more than 1 billion people; the movie is credited with putting regenerative agriculture on the map. Her latest film, “Common Ground,” was the recipient of the Human/Nature Award at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and is the highly anticipated sequel to “Kiss the Ground.” The Tickells live on Big Picture Ranch, a five-acre regenerative farm and film studio campus.

Balvinder Singh Sodhi, senior Landmark Forum Leader, is Vanto Group’s country manager for India. He specializes in designing and implementing mission-critical initiatives to drive growth agendas for businesses and achieve sustained breakthrough performance. He also provides individual consulting to extend leadership capability, rapidly improve organizational performance, and seize growth opportunities. His strategic and practical insights have guided business leaders in technology, financial services, retail, manufacturing, education, and commercial infrastructure. Prior to joining Landmark, Sodhi held senior positions in information technology in India for more than 15 years. He was Microsoft’s financial controller for the Indian Subcontinent, and finance controller with NIIT, an international provider of premier IT education.

Jennifer McAllister is senior vice president of finance for Travel + Leisure Co. and principal financial officer for the Wyndham Destinations business line. Travel + Leisure, with net revenue of $3.6 billion in 2022, is the world’s leading membership and leisure travel company, with a portfolio of nearly 20 resort, travel club and lifestyle brands. For 25 years, McAllister has represented the hospitality and vacation ownership industries through leadership roles in finance, analytics, operations, and international development. She has led teams of more than 500 associates and has a proven track record of leadership development and talent growth, as well as producing extraordinary business results. She holds a degree in accounting from The College of William & Mary and is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Information Systems Auditor.

Anna Sun Choi is a singer, songwriter, energy coach, Forbes author, and TEDx speaker on the topics of finding peace in times of chaos and shifting from burn-out to brilliance. She serves conscious business leaders who want to quiet their mind chatter, cut through distractions, and tap into boundless energy in order to catalyze a tipping point for global enlightenment. Her 20 years of energy coaching blend ancient wisdom, energy mastery and brain education as a Dahn master healer, Korean qigong yoga instructor, Awakened Life meditation teacher, and taekwondo martial artist. Choi was a former Self-Expression & Leadership Program leader for Landmark for seven years.

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. With an interest in social justice, reducing homelessness and supporting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, she is actively involved in the Skid Row Running Club, law enforcement, veterans’ causes, the Compassion Prison Project, and the Transformation Foundation. When she becomes involved in a project, she goes after it with her unstoppable enthusiasm and energy. For instance, when she saw the movie Skid Row Marathon, she met the players, got involved, learned to run marathons, wrote articles promoting the club and engaged sponsors. Hunt is a former introduction leader for Landmark.

Daniel Kamanga lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. His promise for the world is “1 million African leaders by 2030.” A graduate of Werner Erhard’s Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership course, he is proud that more than 500 Africans have taken the course. Kamanga is the director of communication at Africa Harvest and also runs the Africa Leadership Transformation Foundation in South Africa, an organization he founded. He is a former journalist and submitted one of the top three articles for our 2022 conference journal in which he makes the case for changing the conversation about corruption by redefining it as out-of-integrity behavior.