Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University, Courtesy Professor of Education, Stanford Graduate School of Education; One of the World's Leading Researchers on motivation and mindsets; Author, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (2006); Co-Author, "Mindsets and Mental Health" (2023, Nature Mental Health), "Teacher Mindsets Help Explain Where a Growth-Mindset Intervention Does and Doesn't Work" (2022, Psychological Science), "Motivation: A Valuation Systems Perspective" (2019, Emotion in the Mind and Body), Academic Tenacity: Mindsets and Skills That Promote Long-Term Learning (2014), and Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality and Development (2000)
Director, Neuroscape; Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco; Co-Founder and Chief Science Advisor, Akili Interactive Labs; Creator of VR games, such as Engage, NeuroRacer and the Glass Brain, a 3D brain visualization that combines neuroimaging technologies of MRI and EEG to display personalized, real-time brain activity while learning; Host, PBS special "The Distracted Mind with Dr. Adam Gazzaley"; Co-Author, “Enhancing Attention in Children Using an Integrated Cognitive-Physical Video Game” (2023) and The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World (2016)
Health Psychologist; Award-Winning Psychology Lecturer, Stanford University; Invited Lecturer, Stanford University School of Medicine; Recipient of the Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford University’s highest teaching honor; Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Yoga Therapy; Author, The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connections, and Courage (2019), The Upside of Stress (2016), and The Willpower Instinct (2011)
Chancellor's Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine; Researcher on the impact of digital media on people’s lives and our decreasing attention span; Author, Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity (2023); Co-Author, “Understanding Smartphone Usage in College Classrooms” (2019, Computers & Education)
The Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; Past President of the Society for the Science of Motivation and the International Social Cognition Network; Winner of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology’s Best Dissertation Award and Career Trajectory Award, the Society of Consumer Psychology’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, and the Fulbright Educational Foundation Award; Author, Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation (2022)
Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Executive Director of the Learning and Emotional Assessment Program (LEAP), Massachusetts General Hospital; Co-Director of the Clay Center for Healthy Young Minds; Author, Bright Kids Who Couldn’t Care Less: How to Rekindle Your Child’s Motivation (2023); Co-Author, Bright Kids Who Can’t Keep Up: Help Your Child Overcome Slow Processing Speed and Success in a Fast-Paced World (2014)