Experts

If you’re on a quest for answers, then our hand-picked experts are the people to help you find them. These are the innovators, thinkers and great minds of our time that have spent a lifetime seeking and gathering information in those very fields that you are passionate about. And they can’t wait to share their passions and exchange ideas with you. Discovery Retreats gathers these experts to unravel the mysteries that intrigue us through hands-on experiences and workshops. They challenge and invigorate passionate adult learners through a learning experiences that inspires discovery. Join us on a memorable Discovery Retreat that feeds your curiosity.

Jeff Arnold
Chief of Global Digital Strategy, Discovery Communications, Chairman Emeritus, Howstuffworks.com

Jeff Arnold was instrumental in the success of HowStuffWorks.com, a web site which shows how stuff works on just about any topic.

Roko Belic
Academy-award nominated Film Director, Cinematographer, Actor

Roko Belic’s directorial debut, “Genghis Blues” (1999), won the Sundance Audience Award and was nominated for an Academy Award® for best documentary feature. Belic recently directed the 44-minute documentary “Dreams: Cinema of the Subconscious,” which was released on the “Inception” Blu-Ray.

Robert Biswas-Diener, Ph.D.
Managing Director, Positive Acorn and Part-time Instructor, Portland State University

Dr. Biswas-Diener is widely known as the “Indiana Jones of Positive Psychology” because his research on happiness has taken him to such far-flung places as Greenland, India, Kenya and Israel. Dr.

C.J. Brafford
Director, Ute Indian Museum, Montrose, Colorado

C.J. Brafford has been the Director of the Ute Indian Museum since 1996. The museum features one the most complete collections and exhibits featuring the Ute people of Colorado. She served as a museum curator for the Grand Teton National Park for eight years, overseeing the David T.

Sean Carroll, Ph.D.
Theoretical Physicist, California Institute of Technology

Dr. Sean Carroll is an accomplished author and theoretical physicist at California Institute of Technology in sunny Pasadena, California. His research interests include theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation.

John Foster, Ph.D.
Curator of Paleontology, Museum of Western Colorado

Dr. John Foster is Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of Western Colorado in Grand Junction. His research focuses on the dinosaurs, footprints, and paleoecology of the Late Jurassic terrestrial ecosystems of North America.

David Gann
Director of the Colorado Chapter Energy Program for The Nature Conservancy

Born in Aspen, Colorado, David Gann has spent a lifetime learning about the natural resources of the magnificent west.  After graduating from Colorado State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Fishery Management, Dave spent 19 years owning and operating a private trout hatchery near M

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., Ph.D.
Sr. Lecturer of Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Maryland; Author, Researcher

Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., is a dinosaur paleontologist and senior lecturer of vertebrate paleontology in the Department of Geology at the University of Maryland, with primary research specialties in the origin, evolution, functional anatomy, and paleobiology of carnivorous dinosaurs.

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