MEET THE SPEAKERS

Upshift Summit 2025

HOSTS:

Ervin Laszlo

Ervin Laszlo

Ervin Laszlo is a philosopher and systems scientist. The author, co-author, or editor of 106 different books that have appeared in a total of 25 languages, he has written over 400 articles and research papers. Dr. Laszlo is the founder and president of the international think tank The Club of Budapest and of the prestigious The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research. The recipient of various honors and awards, including Honorary Ph. D.s from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary, Laszlo received the Goi Award, the Japan Peace Prize in 2001, the Assisi Mandir of Peace Prize in 2006, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 & 2005.

Ken D. Foster

Ken D. Foster is a Philosopher, Visionary, Author, and Syndicated Radio Show Host who delivers high energy messages that empower audiences to live courageously, tune into their brilliance, and maximize potential. For twenty-three years, Ken has Coached and Mentored CEO’s, Entrepreneurs, Executives and Senior Professionals to take the courageous path, expand their limitations, and free their spirit to bring in harmony, happiness and bottom-line results to their businesses and lives. He specializes in inspiring learners and leaders to live up to their highest potential, and he does this exceptionally well.

Ken D Foster
Nóra Csiszár

Nóra Csiszár

Nóra Csiszár has a Masters degree in Psychology with research on positive psychology, the science of happiness and human well-being. She is a martial-artist and a filmmaker. She is the Communications Director of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research.

SPEAKERS:

Christopher Van Buren

Christopher Van Buren has written numerous books on technology, business, travel and self- help. He has written for numerous magazines, including a Brazilian travel magazine (in Portuguese) and serving as the Brazilian correspondent for U.S.Industry Today and Food & Drink Quarterly magazines. Christopher is a student of neuroscience and has studied a wide variety of spiritual teachings, exploring connections to the collective consciousness, what he calls our Noble Soul. He is certified in NeuroEmotional Technique (NET) and is an accomplished artist, entrepreneur and intuitive.

Christopher Van Buren
Thomas Legrand

Thomas Legrand

Holding a Ph.D. in (Ecological) Economics and having studied international development, political science, and management, Thomas Legrand works in the field of sustainability for UN agencies, private companies, and NGOs. His new book is titled “Politics of being” which aims at aligning our institutions with our true reason to be here on Earth: becoming who we are, the best and most complete version of ourselves. In this groundbreaking work, Thomas Legrand Ph.D. proposes to fundamentally reframe our model of development from its current emphasis on “having” to one focused on “being”.

Lynne McTaggart

Lynne McTaggart is an award-winning journalist and the author of seven books, including the worldwide international bestsellers The Power of Eight, The Field, The Intention Experiment and The Bond, all considered seminal books of the New Science and now translated into some 30 languages. She’s also architect of the Intention Experiment, a global ‘laboratory’ involving thousands of readers around the world testing the power of group thoughts to heal the world.

Lynne McTaggart
Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson

For more than four decades, Marianne Williamson has been a leader of spiritually progressive circles. She is the author of 16 books, four of which have been #1 New York Times best sellers. A quote from the mega- bestseller A Return to Love, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…” is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers. Williamson founded Project Angel Food, a non-profit organization that has delivered more than 18 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients in the Los Angeles area since 1989.

Adam C. Hall

Adam C. Hall is committed to helping individuals, companies and organizations unlearn the beliefs, behaviors, and habits that shield them from discovering their purpose, mission and cause. An author, speaker, futurist, social architect, impact investor, advisor and conservationist—with 3 decades as a CEO & serial entrepreneur. He spent the last two decades as an impact investor dedicated to the quadruple bottom line: People, Planet, Profits with Purpose
— and founded of the EarthKeeper Alliance.

Adam C. Hall
Dr. Mária Sági

Dr. Mária Sági

Dr. Mária Sági, a native of Budapest, began her career as a classical pianist and turned subsequently to the study of medicine and psychology, specializing in personality theory, deep psychology, social psychology and the psychology of music. A leading member of the Club of Budapest since its inception in 1993, Dr. Sági currently serves as Science Director of the Club.

Dr. Jude Currivan

Dr. Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author, previously one of the most senior business women in the UK and co- founder of WholeWorld-View. Having grown up as the daughter of a coal miner in the north of England, she has since journeyed to more than eighty countries around the world and for the last twenty -five years has lived in the sacred landscape of Avebury. She has experienced multidimensional realities since early childhood and worked with the wisdom keepers both incarnate and discarnate of many traditions.

Dr. Jude Currivan
Steve Farrell

Steve Farrell

From the pinnacle of Silicon Valley success as co-founder of two high-tech firms, Steve Farrell pivoted to lead Humanity’s Team, a global nonprofit helping people everywhere awaken to our interconnectedness. After contributing to the Gold Nautilus Award-winning book “Our Moment of Choice — Evolutionary Visions and Hope for the Future,” Steve details his journey from the American Dream to conscious leadership in his new book, “A New Universal Dream.”

Riane Eisler

Riane Eisler, JD, PhD(h), is the recipient of many honors, such as the Distinguished Peace Leadership Award earlier given to the Dalai Lama, and internationally known for her groundbreaking contributions as a systems scientist, futurist, and cultural historian. She is author of many books, including The Chalice and the Blade, now in its 57th US printing and 27 foreign editions, The Real Wealth of Nations, hailed by Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking,” and Nurturing Our Humanity, Oxford University Press, 2019, co-authored with Douglas P. Fry.

Riane Eisler
Debra Poneman

Debra Poneman

Debra Poneman is an award-winning speaker, best-selling author, sought-after seminar leader, talk-show host ,and in-demand media guest. Her clients have included corporate executives, popular celebrities, New York Times best-selling authors—and even household names. As a speaker, Debra delivers high-energy, content-rich, deeply impactful presentations that stay with audience members long after she leaves the stage. She also sits on the boards of several non-profits including Aid Still Required, the Communiversity of South Africa, and the Shot in the Dark Foundation.

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Marie Diamond

Marie Diamond is an award-winning speaker and an internationally recognised leader and author in the field of the Law of Attraction, Feng Shui, Dowsing, Meditation and Shifting & Clearing Energy. She is a world-renowned Feng Shui and Energy Master and has been featured in global phenomena The Secret as the only European master. She is recognised around the world as a Business- and Spiritual Mentor to Celebrities, CEOs, and Top Entrepreneurs worldwide. More than 1 million people have studied online and in-person with Marie Diamond. She is one of the top speakers and authors in Mindvalley.

Marie Diamond
Sister Jenna

Sister Jenna

Sister Dr. Jenna is a spiritual mentor, author, radio and tv personality, and speaker. She is host of the America Meditating Radio Show and founder of the Brahma Kumaris Meditation Museum in Maryland and Virginia. She serves as one of the Evolutionary Leaders In Service to Conscious Evolution and was selected by Empower a Billion Women 2020 as one of 100 most influential leaders of 2015. She sits on numerous advisory boards including: Conscious Good Media; Global Women’s Network; Global Love Button, The Wisdom Council for the Summer of Peace and Visionary Peace Builder.

Rollin McCraty

Rollin McCraty is a scientist, psychophysiologist, executive vice president and director of research at HeartMath Institute, member of the Global Coherence Steering committee and project coordinator of GCI’s Global Coherence Monitoring System. His primary interests include the physiology of emotion, especially the mechanisms by which emotions influence cognitive processes, behavior, health and the global interconnectivity between people and Earth’s energetic systems.

Rollin McCraty
Lynne Twist

Lynne Twist

For more than 40 years, Lynne Twist has been a recognized global visionary committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, empowering the status of women and girls, supporting social justice, and environmental sustainability. Lynne’s on the ground work has brought her a deep understanding of global issues, the challenges women and girls face worldwide, people’s relationship with money, and the transformation of human consciousness.

Dr. Bradley Nelson

Dr. Bradley Nelson, D.C. (ret.) is the developer of the most advanced form of energy medicine on the planet. A holistic Chiropractor and Medical Intuitive, Dr. Nelson is one of the world’s foremost experts in the emerging fields of Bioenergetic Medicine and Energy Psychology. His bestselling book, “The Emotion Code,” is helping people all over the world to improve their lives by ridding themselves of their imbalanced emotional baggage. The Body Code is being used successfully by doctors and laypeople alike to improve the health of thousands of people all over the world.

Dr. Bradley Nelson
John Assaraf

John Assaraf

John Assaraf discusses how to free yourself from unconscious beliefs that prevent you from truly achieving your goals. Assaraf gives a brief glimpse into his life as he discusses the thoughts and beliefs that prevented him from succeeding and what he did to overcome them. Then, he delves discusses the subconscious mind, the place where the deepest beliefs reside, and reveals what it is that separates those who achieve their goals from those who just set their goals. Throughout the discussion John Assaraf offers simple strategies for winning the inner game so that winning the outer game of success is easily done.

Jackie Woodside

Jackie Woodside, CPC, LICSW is a best-selling author, TEDx speaker, radio, television personality and seminar leader who is passionate about the expanding the edge of human potential. Jackie provides custom training programs, workshops, and keynote speeches for businesses, government, non-profit organizations, spiritual centers and national organizations around the country. Jackie’s Life Design coaching programs have been in such great demand that she has begun offering “Certified Life Design Coach” training programs throughout the country so that many more people can experience the amazing benefits of “Living life by design!”

Jackie Woodside
Stephen M. R. Covey

Stephen M. R. Covey

Stephen M. R. Covey is a New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Speed of Trust and Trust & Inspire. He is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his stewardship, became the largest leadership development company in the world. Stephen personally led the strategy that propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to become one of the two most influential business books of the 20th Century, according to CEO Magazine.

Bill Strickland

Bill Strickland, director emeritus, leads the Strickland Global Leadership Institute, a nonprofit he founded that focuses on developing vocational training & arts education centers across the U.S. He is the former president, CEO and executive chairman of Manchester Bidwell Corporation and its subsidiaries, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild (MCG) and Bidwell Training Center BTC), both founded in 1968. Under his leadership, the organization has completed the development of a new medical technology complex and a facility as a mortgage-free asset for MCG and BTC.

Bill Strickland
Judy Wilkins Smith

Judy Wilkins Smith

Judy Wilkins Smith is a highly-regarded international, organizational, individual and family patterns expert, systemic coach and trainer. Founder of the US company, System Dynamics for Individuals & Organizations, she is a sought-after motivational and informational speaker for conferences and businesses. Passionate about individual human potential, visionary leadership and positive, accelerated, global change, Judy’s work is truly revolutionary.

David Lorimer

David Lorimer is a writer, lecturer, poet, editor and spiritual activist who is Founder of Character Education Scotland, Global Ambassador and Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission which seeks the expand the evidence base of science of consciousness beyond a materialistic world view. He has also been editor of Paradigm Explorer since 1986 and completed his 100th issue in 2019. He was the instigator of the Beyond the Brain conference series in 1995 and has co- ordinated the Mystics and Scientists conferences every year since the late 1980s.

David Lorimer
Alexander Laszlo

Alexander Laszlo

Alexander Laszlo, Ph.D., is President of the Board of Directors of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS), Director of Research at the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research (LINPR), and Co-Founder and Global Collaborator of Global Education Futures (GEF). He served as the 57th President and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), and was Director of the Doctoral Program in Management at the Graduate School of Business Administration & Leadership (EGADE-ITESM), Mexico.

Mark Victor Hansen

Mark Victor Hansen is probably best known as the co-author for the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series and brand, setting world records in book sales, with over 500 millions books sold. Mark also worked his way into a worldwide spotlight as a sought-after keynote speaker, and entrepreneurial marketing maven, creating a stream of successful people who have created massive success for themselves through Mark’s unique teachings and wisdom. With his endearing charismatic style, Mark captures his audience’s attention as well as their hearts.

Mark Victor Hansen

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