Conference for Global Transformation
| Author | Biography |
| Larry Adams | Larry Adams earned a zoology degree at the University of California, Berkeley and pursued graduate studies in secondary science education at the University of California, Irvine, where he balanced teaching with summer surfing. His love of the outdoors led him to a master’s degree in animal science at the University of Wyoming, where he worked on a buffalo ranch and chaired a high school science department. He completed a doctorate in biological chemistry at the University of Michigan, followed by postdoctoral research in neuroscience and stem-cell biology. Today, he is grateful to teach science at a Montessori School in Nevada. |
| Hilary Burns | Hilary Burns is the creator and host of “The Getting Real with Hilary Show,” where she shares inspiring stories of transformation, resilience, and authenticity across global platforms including YouTube, iTunes, and Spotify. A three-time author, Burns explores how life’s challenges can be reframed as opportunities for growth and freedom. She has spent decades leading conversations in personal development, spirituality, and empowerment, blending humor, honesty, and vulnerability to create spaces where people feel seen and heard. Whether through media, writing, or coaching, Hilary is committed to raising the consciousness of the planet — one real conversation at a time. |
| Judy-Lee Chen Sang | Judy-Lee Chen Sang is a published author who faced the adversity of breast cancer and double mastectomy. While healing from surgery, Chen Sang discovered the fusion of her photography and technology, creating a new view of life that enabled her recovery and a place to speak from. Using the visual arts, she now advocates for women to have comfort in being breastless and for fashion designers to begin creating patterns and clothing for those without breasts. A Landmark Self-Expression & Leadership Program leader and a Landmark personal coach, Chen Sang is committed to graduates causing an unprecedented level of performance and produce miracles in their lives. |
| Sanaz Fotouhi | Sanaz Fotouhi is a writer and a mother, with an academic background and many lives behind her, who dips her fingers into many pots! Currently she divides her time between homeschooling her son, writing, and working with her husband on creating a lifestyle where they can divide their time between Australia, Cyprus, and travelling the world. |
| Cherylle Garnes | Cherylle Garnes has been a custodian of Landmark’s Inquiries of the Social Commons since 2022. She has enjoyed hosting and participating in the Discourses, Living as a Created Self, and Contribution inquiries. Her commitment for the world is that “Christians all over the world wake up, get into action, and show love, joy, and peace to all” with God “doing the rest.” One way that Garnes sees this happening is for the Bible to be translated into the 1,900 languages it has yet to be translated into so everyone will have access to it. |
| Rose Grant | Rose Grant brings skills in listening and leadership to foster healthy communities and vibrant ecosystems. Her advocacy for potent climate action includes early adoption of renewable energy, electric vehicles, and regenerative agriculture – often through unconventional partnerships with farmers and rural communities. Her content contributions to the Conference for Global Transformation have been recognized annually since 2022. |
| Susan Jones | Susan Jones is an empathic visionary, spiritual healer, and author devoted to creating partnership and community in every aspect of life. She teaches others how to activate their natural empathic gifts, create powerful clearings, and generate transformation in their personal and professional lives. A founding member of the Empowering Women Alliance, Susan is co-author of the #1 Amazon bestseller, “Empowering Women With Words: Life-Changing Conversations.” She continues to develop workshops, collaborative projects, and mentorship opportunities that reflect her passion for authentic prosperity and the expansion of human potential. |
| Ronel Kelmen | Ronel Kelmen is committed to reducing the risk and incidence of chronic lifestyle disease, having recovered herself from Type 2 diabetes and clinical obesity. Now a national board-certified health and wellness coach, she implements her whole-person health framework, The Ten Pillars of My Wellness, at Healthier Life Habits. Certified as a personal trainer and senior fitness specialist, Kelmen is also a licensed attorney and former math teacher, with master’s degrees in education and applied psychology. She enjoys many creative pursuits, has long been on a personal development path, and credits the Grateful Dead for her living in California. |
| Robin Kermode | Robin Kermode is a registered primary school teacher and brings creativity, play, and storytelling into learning through games and activities connected to the natural world. For twenty years, she created and facilitated Stories in Action, where young people danced their way into being great rugby players. She had a weekly column, “An Invitation from Papatūānuku,” for a year in the Gulf News, led the Rotoroa Island Education Program for two years, and since 2024 has been a Climate Restoration Relief Teacher. She also co-creates with young people to write children’s books celebrating Aotearoa’s native species. |
| Barbara Lewthwaite | Barbara Lewthwaite lives her life in obedience to the universe’s guidance. She has been gifted with psychic skills to see people at soul level. Her extraordinary experiences have set her apart from the everyday world. This has been a lonely road to travel; her unique perspective allows her to view the world as evolving rapidly toward peace and love. She sees the current world events as part of the transition. She shares her knowledge and perspective here as a reassurance and a road map for others on their own spiritual paths. |
| Felicia Nagamatsu | Felicia Nagamatsu is the founder of TrainYourGenius.com, a community where neurodiversity is joyful, natural, expected, and essential. She views male and female brain wiring as evidence that neurodiversity affects all humanity and sees neuro-intelligence as a solution whose time has come. Nagamatsu works to shape language and education that preserve natural genius and honor the self-worth of every individual. She is a global advocate for the joy of neurodiversity, raising awareness of neurodiverse strengths/gifts. Nagamatsu is a friend, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, speaker, teacher, coach, author, and inventor, and considers her neurodiverse marriage of 49 years her greatest achievement. |
| Zara Pamboukhtchian | Zara Pamboukhtchian is a personal coach and creator of Playful Productivity, working primarily with people with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. A senior Landmark graduate and former staff member immersed in a decade of ontological training, she is committed to transforming overwhelm into authentic, joyous action. With a career spanning technology, leadership development, design, and entrepreneurial ventures, Pamboukhtchian leverages her own ADHD-driven pattern recognition and playfulness to help others turn complexity into clarity and adversity into partnership. |
| Pam Pence | Pam Pence is a dedicated advocate for humanity and the Earth, applying her business, somatic trauma healing, generative dialogue facilitator, and spiritual guide skills as they are called for. She has earned a master’s in business administration, holds a certified public accountant license, and various certificates as a yoga therapist, practitioner of healing modalities, and meditation teacher. She is committed to co-creating a compassionate, just, and ecologically sustainable world. |
| Shana Pereira | Shana Pereira was a global strategist, cultural diplomat, and walking miracle whose life bridged activism, spirituality, and transformation. Born into a family of human rights leaders from Timor-Leste, she led award-winning campaigns for global brands and survived a double organ transplant in 2020. Pereira’s work weaved sacred leadership, interfaith community building, and narrative restoration, inviting people to live from their divine core. Through Halibur, her interfaith spiritual platform, and her writings, she guided individuals and communities to reclaim their voice, power, and lineage. She embodied the following belief: The flame God lit inside each of us, no human can extinguish. |
| Evangeline Pesca | Evangeline Pesca is a business leader and creative thinker whose work explores the intersection of leadership, resilience, and human possibility. As chief executive officer of a minority women-owned manufacturing company, she is committed to building organizations where people feel valued, supported, and inspired to contribute beyond perceived limitations. Raised between cultures, Pesca brings a perspective shaped by both adversity and generosity. Her writing reflects a lifelong inquiry into how sharing, courage, and responsibility shape the way we lead and create possibilities for others. She shares her life with her husband Davide and her three daughters Arianna, Gabriella, and Kara. |
| Ritu Raj | Ritu Raj is a contemporary abstract artist whose journey comprises decades in technology leadership with a return to creative expression. After 30 years as a business executive, Raj rediscovered painting during the 2020 pandemic, transforming personal renewal into a professional art practice. Drawing on influences from Indian modernists, Western abstraction, and a life lived across cultures, Raj’s work invites dialogue between movement, emotion, and space. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman in Los Angeles, Raj integrates disciplined process with improvisation, fostering visual experiences that encourage reflection, connection, and change – values that mirror the transformative spirit of both art and human potential. |
| Rich Schuster | Rich Schuster is one of the elders of Landmark’s Wisdom Course Area. Schuster is committed that all people have access to the created dimension of being and that they are thereby empowered to be up to great and challenging work. In addition to having had a productive career in physics and engineering, he is a student of, and has trained many people in, practices of communication to support aliveness and productivity. Schuster and his wife, Noreen, celebrate more than 40 years of marriage and participation in service of transformation. |