HEART Summit 2026 - May 23 & 24

NTS CEO and co-founder, Graeme Sait, is an author/educator responsible for over 300 published articles and a popular book, Nutrition Rules!. He is an internationally sought-after speaker, specialising in soil, plant, animal and human health and wellness. That emphasis has now expanded to include planetary health, in recognition of the link between humus and carbon sequestration. Following his TEDx presentation in 2013, Graeme has continued to create major impact, influencing farmers, consultants, medicos, governments and key decisionmakers worldwide.

In South Africa, Graeme and the NTS agronomy team have trained all of the growers supplying Woolworths, the country’s largest supermarket chain. Their “Farming for the Future” initiative has proven a resounding success, and NTS has since been approached by two other supermarket chains in South Africa seeking similar training.

Dr Terry McCosker OAM is a pioneering Australian agricultural innovator, educator and researcher whose work has shaped sustainable land management and regenerative agriculture nationally and internationally. With over five decades in research, extension and property management across government and private sectors, he has published more than 40 scientific papers and made world‑first discoveries in areas such as pasture ecology, ruminant nutrition and livestock fertility early in his career.

In 1985 he co‑founded Resource Consulting Services (RCS), an organisation widely recognised for setting the benchmark in capacity building across rural and regional Australia.
Through RCS he introduced the GrazingforProfit™ School, which has transformed grazing, livestock and business management and supported thousands of producers to improve profitability and ecological outcomes.

In recognition of his extensive contributions to Australian agriculture - including his role in bridging traditional farming and regenerative systems, advancing farmer education and capacity building—Central Queensland University conferred on him an Honorary Doctorate of Agribusiness in 2015. Terry was honoured with the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2021 for services to agriculture.

A pioneer in soil carbon and carbon farming, he founded CarbonLink in 2007 to support farmers in measuring, managing and earning from soil carbon, and continues to champion nature‑based approaches that deliver ecological health alongside economic resilience.

Find out more about RCS here:
https://www.rcsaustralia.com.au/

Imprinted from a young age with the principles of regenerative agriculture, along with a deep curiosity of the human body and nature, Stacey holds a Bachelor of Health Science majoring in Naturopathy and a Masters of Human Nutrition. 

Stacey is passionate about providing high quality naturopathic care to all, working especially closely with those who live rurally and remotely. Her passion is to turn complex science into easy to implement, individualised, actionable steps; and empower others to be proactive about their own health.

She is endlessly blown away by the intelligence of nature and human physiology; and has a keen interest in linking human health outcomes to soil health, regenerative practices and systems thinking.

More about Stacey & her business, Cultivating Wellness, here: https://www.cultivatingwellness.com.au/about

Tom Cruise will not be making an appearance this year.

Beverley Unitt works as a professional Strategic Psychotherapist, Clinical Hypnotherapist & Certifying Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic-Programming…. not only is that a mouthful but it also makes for a rewarding and varied working week!

Beverley is a highly experienced educator and international conference speaker, sharing her expertise in mindset and motivation skills, all with relevant application for the audience she is in front of.

Delivering NLP Training Courses and preparing & certifying  Practitioner of NLP students since 2013, Beverley has a reputation for simplifying the complicated and this means any concepts, techniques, and strategies she educates are stickable, practical and instantly usable.

Dr Max Gulhane is a practising GP registrar and circadian health educator with an interest in regenerative farming as a means of providing highest quality food for optimal human metabolic health. He has a particular interest in Nguni cattle for their natural robust traits that make them the perfect vehicle to produce pure, chemical-free fully grass-fed beef.

Stuart McWilliam of Blackbird and Beast is a tradie-turned-first-generation regenerative farmer and dedicated practitioner of Natural Sequence Farming, who made the transition from suburban life and careers in plumbing and arboriculture to breeding Speckle Park cattle on his property in Laggan, NSW. Specialising in this innovative approach—pioneered in Australia and trained by Stuart Andrews of Tarwyn Park Training—Natural Sequence Farming focuses on mimicking natural landscape processes, employing strategic land-shaping such as contouring and earthworks to improve water retention, restore hydrological cycles, enhance soil biology, and regenerate degraded landscapes across Australia.

As a passionate advocate for regenerative agriculture, Stuart shares his family’s journey from suburbia to impactful land stewardship through public speaking, podcasts such as Corrective Culture and A Place to Call Home, and events like the Festival of Food & Farming and Regenerate, inspiring others to embrace solutions for landscape rehydration.

Learn more about Blackbird and Beast here:
https://www.nofarmnofood.com.au/

Randal Breen, along with his wife Juanita and their children Bridey and Eli, make up the team at Echo Valley Farm on Githabul country in the Goomburra Valley, Southeast Queensland. For the past 12 years they have been operating a stacked, multispecies, holistic operation, integrating pastured poultry, grass fed beef, a Brangus cattle stud, an on-farm boning and packing facility, and multispecies cover cropping. These diverse operations are rooted in the values of their 4 Goods - Good for the Animal, Good for the Land, Good for the Farmer & Good for the You (the consumer). The 4 Goods and a focus on a circular economy are key to their small farm’s viability and success.

As a first-generation farmer, Randal’s diverse background in Community Development, Social Science, Community Arts, and a trade in Carpentry has brought a unique approach to their farming, engagement with nature, and the diverse distribution model a paddock to plate operation entails. Randal also spent 8 years as the director of a Community Arts space with a focus on at-risk youth, emerging artists, and graffiti and public art, developing a drive for positive and lasting change; these goals and drivers now transferred to landscape and agriculture. With a historical background of farming, on the maternal side of Randal’s family, his passion evolved and expanded into agroecology and regenerating the landscape. This has meant a creative development of farming systems that work symbiotically and complementary to each other.

In full production for 12 years now, Echo Valley Farm feeds multiple families through its Community Supported Agriculture program, supplies a diverse number of restaurants/cafes and food distribution groups throughout
Brisbane, and countless other regular retail customers each week with food generated on the 700-acre multi-species regenerative farm.

Learn more about Echo Valley Farm here:
https://www.echovalley.com.au/

Carly and Grant Burnham are a leading beef producers located west of Monto in the beautiful North Burnett region of Queensland. With her husband, Grant and their four children they own and operate ‘Bonnie Doone’, a 20 000 acre organic certified beef grazing property. Six generations of connection to the land and primary production in Queensland, motivates Carly and Grant to continue innovating for a robust future of agriculture. Bonnie Doone
breeds and finishes cattle for export, domestic and direct to consumer markets. One of Australia’s most popular on farm AirBnB is integrated into the business, along with an agroforestry enterprise.

The Burnham’s focus on the environment and natural world ensures business, community and industry continue to understand the impact and potential agriculture has in solving climatic challenges. In 2023 Bonnie Doone was issued 94 666 Australian Carbon Credit Units upon undertaking a rigorous and world first soil carbon project. The Burnham’s are the largest holders of soil carbon credits in Australia. 2024 Organic Farmer of The Year and 2024 Australian Farmer of the Year Finalist, Grant and Carly combine creative and strategic practices, and work with the understanding our interconnectedness informs the potential for landscape, human and community regeneration.

They proudly initiated and funded a profit for purpose organisation in Monto that enabled the community to reclaim an almost 100 year old theatre for restoration and enhance the arts and cultural fabric of the their home town.

Grant Burnham: Company Director and Manager
- Associate Diploma Beef Cattle Production
- Neuro Linguistics Programming
- Grazing for Profit
- ExecutiveLink
- Certificate in Land Management

Carly Baker-Burnham: Company Director and Finance Manager
- MA Leadership and Management
- Post Grad Organisational Analysis
- Diploma Agriculture
- Diploma Agribusiness
- Neurolinguistics Programming
- Grazing for Profit
- Executive Link
- Certificate in Celebrancy

Find out more about Carly and Grant's farm here:
https://www.bonniedoone.com.au/

David McLean is the Managing Director of Resource Consulting Services (RCS), one of Australia’s leading agricultural consulting and education organisations specialising in regenerative land management and business performance. He is a highly respected advisor, educator and presenter, working with producers across Australia to strengthen both landscape health and business outcomes.

David comes from a fifth-generation sheep and cattle grazing family in south west Queensland, bringing deep practical experience to his work. He graduated from the University of Queensland in 2004 with first-class honours in a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Rural Technology), and has extensive training and research in facilitation, communication, ecology and business analysis.

David’s association with RCS began as a client while managing an intensive time control grazing enterprise in north Queensland. After experiencing the impact of RCS principles firsthand, he joined the organisation full-time in 2007 as an advisor and educator and has since progressed to Managing Director, leading a national team supporting agricultural businesses across diverse production systems.

Specialising in helping people in agriculture perform at their best, David combines hands-on operational experience with rigorous technical knowledge and high-level analysis. He delivers the full suite of RCS education programs, including Farming & Grazing for Profit™ and ExecutiveLink, with expertise spanning grazing management and ecology, business analysis and benchmarking, soil health, livestock systems, succession planning and team development.

David believes growth should serve a clear purpose—improving profitability, building resilient businesses and regenerating land for the long term.

Find out more about RCS here:
https://www.rcsaustralia.com.au/

Scott left Australia in the 1990s with a calling to understand health at a deeper level, travelling to Germany to train with some of the world’s leading health professionals. 

There, he opened his first clinic, beginning a journey that would span continents and transform lives.

With over 30 years’ experience in integrative health, Scott has practiced across Australia, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, founding a pioneering clinic in Berlin renowned for innovative gut health therapies, detox programs, vaccine damage therapies, and cutting-edge dark field microscopy. 

His work has supported internationally recognised actors and directors, world champion ahtletes, long-haul pilots for Emirates Airlines, and high-performance environments including Nasdaq in the Middle East.

Now based in Queensland, Scott runs a thriving clinic, bringing the precision of German naturopathic medicine together with a deep, human understanding of balance between body and mind.

Michael has been practicing osteopathy since 2011. He is passionate about holistic health and believes in each person’s ability to achieve optimal functionality. Osteopathy is the perfect medium for him to explore the abilities of the human body to adapt and evolve. His approach to problem solving is largely based on the interconnectivity of all things. Whether that be the neck's effect on the heart, or the soil's effect on the gut, the ultimate goal of osteopathy is to find the cause of the problem, address it and in doing so allow the system to thrive. 

Michael has worked as a mobile osteopath traveling around remote Australia and as far as India working closely with world renowned orthopaedic surgeons. He approaches treatment as a generalist and has thus been lucky enough to treat people of all ages from newborns to centenarians.

Ian Lowe is an emeritus professor in the School of Environment and Science at Griffith University. His extensive publications record includes 16 books. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. He has filled many advisory roles to all levels of government, notably chairing the advisory group that prepared the first national report on the state of the environment.

He has received many awards for his work, including an AO in 2001. He still plays cricket and was in the first Australian over-70s team to tour England. He moved to the Sunshine Coast twenty years ago, sings in the Noosa Chorale and is a member of the Noosa Biosphere Reserve Foundation.

Qualifications:
- B.Sc. University of NSW
- D.Phil from University of York
- D.Univ Griffith University
- D.Univ Sunshine Coast University
- D.Sc. University of NSW

Ian's subject for the dinner will be "Is
a sustainable future still possible?".

Bryant's long history in agriculture has many Change points. Starting in Longreach with the family running a wool sheep & cattle property. He has also run cattle at Baralaba, Wandoan, Taroom, and Chinchilla, before moving to the Sunshine Coast in 2018.

With 20+ year of Regenerative farming experience that has been building to the current position of Paddock to Plate Grass Fed Grass Finished Beef in the Kin Kin Valley. Side by side with wife Susie, making this fresh start to move the coastal farm to a chemical free operation. So many paradigms had to be busted. 

His passions have been centred around environmental stewardship ever since he discovered the importance of Regenerative Agriculture through Resource Consulting Services (RCS) in 2003. Implementing infrastructure change to all aspects of the farm (Water, Fences Roads and Yards) so as to allow management that drives environmental change.

Driven by the desire to help others understand the possibilities from the different way of thinking. From the Soil Up, reinvigorating health to all levels. With our own personal health as a driver of change.

Learn more about Bryant through some of the podcasts he's been featured in here.

Jake holds Bachelor degrees in both Natural Resources and Urban and Regional Planning and then progressed on to unlearning and relearning with the paradigm-busting Grazing for Profit, Executive Link and recently CREATE with Integrity Soils in Yellowstone, Montana.  When not studying to satisfying his curiosity, he’s working with the family running their sheep, cattle, carbon and cropping farm in Wombat, NSW.

Bringing together his practical experience and ecological insights, Jake is a passionate storyteller who loves to navigate complex topics to present simple take home inspiration. Jake is also the founder of Catalyst Soils where he offers agroecological coaching.

Jake has always been fond of, and fascinated by, the complexity and intelligence of nature. It’s where he finds joy, solace, and inspiration. From farming to fishing, Jake believes in ecological magic—the abundance that’s possible when we work with nature as a collective community. Every farm, and every human, holds unrealised potential, and with the right lens, limitations can become gateways to growth.

Find out more about Catalyst Soils:
https://www.catalystsoils.com.au/

Dr Gupta is a vocationally registered general practitioner who runs an integrative medicine clinic on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. His main passion relates to finding the underlying causes and innovated approaches to managing chronic illness. Dr Gupta graduated from medical school at the University of Queensland in Australia in 1999. He worked in the hospital system for ten years before a brush with illness led him to embracing a more holistic model of patient care.

His initial approach was heavily dietary and nutritionally oriented but later he came to know of environmentally related illnesses such as mold-related illness, tick-borne disease and heavy metal toxicity. He has now treated over 10,000 patients with such environmental illness and is passionate to share his knowledge with other practitioners keen to add this to their tool kit.

Garry was once a merchant banker in Sydney & London. After returning to the country in 1984, he and his wife Linda farmed cattle for 30 years. They were early adopters of many Regenerative farming techniques.

Garry has been a teacher, senior consultant & facilitator with Resource Consulting Services. He taught the full range of courses on offer.

Garry & Linda were introduced to subtle energy some 25 years ago, and it has made an enormous difference to their life’s journey and to many other people.

Garry is a Dawson Program practitioner & teacher, and an accredited facilitator in Geomancy under the Quantum Leap program. He is currently Chair of Quantum Leap Subtle Energy Limited and is passionate about extending the use of subtle energy as widely as possible.

His strength is in strategic thinking, understanding how complex issues can be simply addressed, and in being a catalyst for change. He describes himself as a “specialist generalist”. He is an effective teacher/facilitator partly because he can draw from experience in such a wide variety of fields.

Garry has been heavily involved in
community affairs, including inaugural President of Bingara & District Vision 2020, which facilitated a Vision for his community under the theme of “Regeneration”, He has been deeply involved in extending that vision to 2030 and in a wide range of forward-thinking community affairs.

Garry & Linda have been together for 58 years and are incredibly proud of their two sons, Scott & Hamish, and their families.

Garry is very positive about the future of farming and of smaller rural communities, and in readying people to look for the opportunities in change. In addition, he is passionate about enabling people to live to their full potential, and for this to overflow into the broader community.

Dr Pran Yoganathan is an experienced gastroenterologist who left a busy metropolitan practice in Sydney to settle in the New England region of NSW, driven by a deepening interest in how modern food systems contribute to society’s escalating disease burden.

Working out of his cattle farm in the rugged but beautiful landscape of Tingha, he explores the relationship between soil, food, and human health, particularly how disturbances in the gut microbiome mirror the degradation of agricultural ecosystems. He views the rhizosphere as the planet’s richest microbial biobank and believes that the health of the soil is reflected in the health of the people it nourishes.

Concerned by the rise of chronic illness, Dr Yoganathan advocates for a new synthesis of farming and medicine, one where how we live is inseparable from the diseases we develop. His clinical practice centres on a holistic approach that integrates nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle medicine. He collaborates closely with like-minded allied health professionals to achieve optimal outcomes for his patients.

Bringing the experience of having founded and led Australia’s largest gastroenterology network, he is now proud to serve the communities of the New England region through his private practices in Armidale and Tamworth. He lives with his wife, Tamera, and his three children in Armidale.

Learn more about The Centre for Gastrointestinal Health here:
https://centreforgastrointestinalhealth.com.au/