Boulder Crest Foundation

Ken Falke is the Founder and Chairman of Boulder Crest Foundation. Boulder Crest specializes in training military veterans, first responders, healthcare workers, and their family members who are suffering from the effects of stress. Boulder Crest is also advancing the science of posttraumatic growth through training programs and advocacy. Ken spent 21 years in the U.S. Navy as a bomb disposal specialist and is a successful entrepreneur who has started and sold two award-winning companies. Ken is the author of Lead Well: 10 Steps to Successful and Sustainable Leadership and co-author of Struggle Well: Thriving in the Aftermath of Trauma and Transformed by Trauma: Stories of Posttraumatic Growth. Ken holds a Master's Degree from Georgetown University in Public Policy Management.

Josh Goldberg has served as the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Boulder Crest Institute for Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) since September 2018. The Institute is part of the Boulder Crest Foundation, a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring first responders, combat veterans, and their family members live great lives in the midst of struggle, stress, and trauma. Since 2014, Josh has led the development, delivery, study, and scale of Posttraumatic Growth-based solutions to times of struggle. This effort with the development of the Warrior PATHH program, now delivered at Boulder Crest's PTG Academies in Arizona and Virginia, through Boulder Crest's Mobile Training Team, and with partners in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Maine, South Carolina, and Washington state.

Taryn Greene, Ph.D., is the Director of Research at the Boulder Crest Institute. She is a former active duty Air Force Intelligence Officer and two-tour veteran of Afghanistan. As a Health Psychologist, she specializes in psychological processes related to posttraumatic growth, resilience, and thriving in the aftermath of stress, trauma, and loss. She has published alongside Dr. Tedeschi and Dr. Moore on the topic of facilitating posttraumatic growth in first responders, military members, and veterans. Taryn brings expertise in positive psychology, trauma-informed care, and program evaluation, as well as experience utilizing applied research to investigate the experiences of refugee and immigrant populations overcoming adversity.

Bret A. Moore is a prescribing psychologist and board-certified clinical psychologist in San Antonio, Texas. He is the Vice Chair of the Boulder Crest Institute and a former active-duty Army psychologist and two-tour veteran of Iraq. He is the author and editor of 24 books including Transformed by Trauma, Treating PTSD in Military Personnel, The Posttraumatic Growth Workbook, Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple, and Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists. He has written over 200 book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, and popular press articles including features for Scientific American Mind, The New Republic, and Military Times. His views on clinical and military psychology have been quoted in USA Today, The New York Times, National Geographic, and The Boston Globe, and on CNN and Fox News. He has appeared on NPR, the BBC, and CBC.

Richard Tedeschi, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychological Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Distinguished Chair of the Boulder Crest Institute for Posttraumatic Growth, in Bluemont, Virginia, where he has been one of the developers of programs based on posttraumatic growth principles to help combat veterans and first responders. He has published several books and numerous professional articles on posttraumatic growth, an area of research that he developed while at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Tedeschi serves as a consultant to the American Psychological Association on trauma and resilience, is a Fellow of the Division of Trauma Psychology and the Division of Psychotherapy, and is Past President of the North Carolina Psychological Association.