Greg Walton

Dr. Greg Walton is the Michael Forman University Fellow in Undergraduate Education and Professor of Psychology at Stanford's School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S). He leads the Lifting the Bar research team. 

Dr. Walton is a leading expert in psychologically “wise” interventions to support belonging among diverse groups in school and to reduce inequalities, including developing such interventions, integrating them in school practices, evaluating them in ecologically valid field experiments, and scaling them. He is the author of Ordinary Magic: The Science of How We Can Achieve Big Change with Small Acts.

Validated interventions created by Dr. Walton have been integrated into scores of institutional practices reaching hundreds-of-thousands of students. Dr. Walton co-founded the College Transition Collaborative, a center at Stanford that has partnered with dozens of colleges and universities to implement and evaluate interventions to support students’ sense of belonging in college.