Mountaineer Andrew Lock OAM
first Australian to climb all fourteen of the world's 8000 metre mountains
Health and well-being author, Prof. Kerryn Phelps
Diet and Nutrition expert, Jaime Rose Fronzek
Novelist, Maxwell Grant
Gyonpo Tshering, Author, National Library & Archives of Bhutan
Finance Journalist, Adele Ferguson
Film Director, Paul Cox
Art critic and painter, Giles Auty
Psychologist, Dr. Lucy Blunt
John Larkin, Author/journalist
UK journalist Rebecca Wicks
Author/curator Heather Robinson Long
Author and Historian, Professor Peter Monteath
Journalist and author June Alexander
Paris based photo-journalist Carla Coulson
Vegan writer/illustrator Angela Stafford
Nonfiction author, Marlee Ranacher of Bullo River Station
Novelist Cam Lavac
Author and Champion BASEjumper Heather Swan
Novelist Joy Dettman
Author and military historian Dr. Peter Ewer
TV Presenter and Nutritionist Zoe Bingley-Pullin
Author and activist Shirley Shackleton
Janet Fife-Yeomans, author and journalist
Basia Bonkowski Broadcaster, journalist and author
David L. Mearns, UK based deep-sea shipwreck hunter who found HMAS Sydney and The Centaur
Dr. John A. Long, palaeontologist and author
Dannielle Miller, educator for teenagers
Teacher, philosopher and consciousness researcher
Adventure author Jon Muir
Military history author/scholar Dr. Kathryn Spurling
Author and journalist Rupert Guinness
Singer-songwriter Helen Reddy
Melbourne Age national editor and author Michael Gordon
Film-maker and author Nick Bleszynski
Israeli adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg
High profile gardener Don Burke
Radio presenter Derryn Hinch
Author Stephen Downes
Guardian journalist Roger Maynard
Australian Financial Review Journalist, Tony Walker
Journalist Cameron Forbes
Adventure author and Everest summiteer Lincoln Hall
Journalists Iain Finlay and Trish Clark
Travel author Garry Weare
Journalist Ben Hills
Anthropologist Kirk Huffman
Sociologist Dr. Zita Weber
Layne Beachley - (literary agent only) Women's world surfing champion
Childrens' and Young Adult author:
- Rowan McAuley

U.S authors
Kimberly Roberts, author and yoga and meditation teacher
Dr. Mark Thompson, Clinical Psychologist and online dating specialist
Martin Strel, Ultra marathon and Amazon River swimmer
Matthew Mohlke, Adventure author
Anne-Elise Hagen, New York Yoga instructor/author
Will Chaffey, Adventurer, writer

Venice based foreign correspondent Uli Schmetzer

Filipina novelist, Josè Dalisay