HEART Summit 2025 - Early Bird Now On Sale!

Jacob Wolki is an enterprising multi-species farmer from Woomargama, NSW.

Jacob and his family embarked on their Food Healing Journey in 2019. Little did they know that this journey would change the course of their life and lead them into being regenerative farmers and selling meat plus other value added items Australia Wide. Jacob has a keen interest in value adding and innovating in the food space to create a thriving farm business and healthy customers.

Qualifications: Basically finished High School (Year 10)

Jake's subject for day one will be “From Scripts to Steaks - A Regenerative Journey”

Jake's subject for day two will be “Innovating in Agriculture”

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

Stacey's subject for Day 1 will be "Nutritional Dark Matter".

Stacey's subject for Day 2 will be “Root to Resilience: How Soil Shapes Our Health”.

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.

Beverley's subject for Day 1 will be "Stopping Anxiety, Procrastination, and Overwhelm".

Tom Archer is a specialist rural consultant and manages his own 8,500-hectare grazing enterprise using holistic land management principles.

Tom Archer is the owner and manager of Archer Pastoral, a 8,500-hectare grazing enterprise in Goondiwindi, Queensland.

When he and his wife Antionette first purchased their property, Rexton, in 1998, it was severely overgrazed and degraded. There was bare ground over much of the property and what ground cover there was, was made up of undesirable vegetation.

They began by managing the property under traditional farming methods like spraying herbicides, but soon realised that their methodologies needed to change in order for the land to heal.

Upon attending a holistic management course, and later the RCS Grazing for Profit course, they began implementing holistic management practices and seeing results. They began using time-controlled grazing, implementing rest for pastures, and utilising low stress stock handling systems. Very soon, Rexton had transformed into a profitable and productive property.

The couple have since purchased a second property, Rainmore, which was also in a degraded state. Their new management principles have seen this property also become productive and profitable.

Throughout the years that they have been holistically managing the two properties, these methods were significantly increasing the carbon in their soils. Today, Tom and Antionette are in the final stages of one of Queensland's first carbon projects, and they will soon be seeing a profit from selling carbon credits.

Tom now provides consulting services to other pastoralists, advising fellow graziers so they can implement the methods that have worked on his properties.

Tom's subject on Day 2 will be "Our Journey of Change"

Stu is the Co-Founder of Audacious Ag, specializing in asset management, advisory, coaching, and livestock operations. With extensive experience in regenerative grazing and building natural capital across Australia, he is known for his hands-on approach and commitment to positive outcomes for landscapes, livestock, businesses, and most importantly people. Stu's passion lies in helping others achieve their vision, whether managing a large family office portfolio or scaling a smaller family operation. His life goal is to restore the ecological function of as much of the worlds grasslands as he can in this short dash. 

He enjoys running, golfing, reading, piloting, and adventures with his family.

Stu's subject on Day 2 will be "From the Heart - Mentally Managing the Highs and Lows of Life."

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/

Carly and Grant's subject for Day 2 will be "Reimagining our family farm by falling in love with nature"

As an elite performance coach, Rich centres his approach on the mastery of the breath. 

In the formative years of his professional life Rich served as an intelligence officer for the Australian Government, working exclusively in the field as a counter-terrorism expert. He spent several years leading investigations and operations against high priority national security threats, being deployed primarily under cover in Australia and the Middle East.

On returning to civilian life, Rich joined a boutique London-based executive search firm, Augmentum Consulting before returning to Australia to co-found InterSearch Australia, where he continues to maintain an advisory role.

After training with legendary Hawaiian big wave surfer Laird Hamilton in 2016, Rich dedicated himself to developing his understanding of breath control and its relationship to peak physical performance, mental resilience, and emotional control. 

Rich is a trusted advisor and mentor to world class athletes, senior executives and emerging talent through various school programs. He continues to explore the limits of human potential from his home in Noosa, Australia where he lives with his wife Bec and daughter Ryder.

Rich's subject for Day 1 will be "The Antifragile Life: Finding Calm in Chaos"

A regenerative Grazier trading and breeding cattle since 2001 and winner of a 2019 NSW Landcare Award – Australian Government Innovation in Agricultural Land Management. In 2016 Craig, became a Holistic Management Field Professional and Holistic Management educator.

Craig is a member of the Land to Market Verification team that checks and verifies the monitoring results for properties. Generally a landholding that achieves a rising Ecological Health Index (EHI) will obtain a seal verifying that they are regenerating their landscape. This opens the door to a wide range of end users seeking Regeneratively Produced Food and Fibre.

The verification team also provides support to landholders with interpreting their monitoring report results and ideas to continue to achieve improved ecological health outcomes.

Craig's subject for Day 2 will be "Land to Market".

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?".

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 Sanchez is well known for his integrative approach to medicine. His clinical interests include Nutritional Medicine, Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy (only in exceptional circumstances), Obesity, Diabetes, Cancer, Autoimmune and management of chronic diseases.

Dr Sanchez has been consulting in Australia since 1999, in General Practice and Emergency Medicine, qualified originally in Spain in 1995 and worked extensively in UK in general medicine, surgical specialties and teaching anatomy to medical students at Oxford University.

He is a fellow with the RACGP since 2011.

He has also trained with The Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine and Australasian College of Medical Nutrition.

He has special interests in enhancing sports performance through nutrition and strength training. 

In the last year Dr Sanchez has been
studying Quantum Biology as one if not the most important pillars of
health together with nutrition, movement and exercise.

• Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery, University of Seville, Spain
• Fellowship of RACGP
• Biobalance trained (Walsh Protocol)
• GAPS practitioner
• An extensive traveller of over 5 different continents studying cultures and food as medicine

Alex was raised in Toowoomba, moving to Brisbane in his mid 20s. His involvement with his family's farm began during his university studies when Susie and Bryant voiced their desires to go paddock-to-plate, building their website, branding, and social media channels.

Alex studied a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) and a Bachelor of Business (IT Management) at UniSQ, graduating in 2023. These skills have helped him excel in his role as co-founder of Eastwell Farms, combining an understanding of tech with agricultural principles.
He finds much joy in connecting with food provenance, and the importance of responsibly sourced produce.

Alex drives production of mushrooms at Eastwell, seeking out novel varieties to add to the repetoire of the farm's production, while optimising for successful growth.
He is also deeply interested in value-adding principles to any and all products Eastwell produces. He sees enormous potential in regeneratively farmed produce, and deeply desires to share this value with his community.

Alex spends his free time playing piano, guitar, drums, also pursuing music production. He likes to read, write, and play tennis. He has an insatiable desire for trying new things.

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.