Dr. Gregory specializes in positive psychology, a field that examines healthy human functioning such as courage, hope, optimism, and happiness. He worked internationally with children and adolescents as a psychotherapist and consulted with leaders in higher education, media, and business.

He serves as the Executive Director of the Media Psychology Research Center of Boston and is a board member of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra (www.bostonphil.org) and Dr. Phil Zimbardo's Heroic Imagination Project (heroicimagination.org).

 He consulted with Hit Entertainment on the educational content of "Bob the Builder" and worked in conjunction with KCET to develop "Sid the Science Kid.  He also served as the Director of Continuing Education at the New England Conservatory and introduced online registration, online courses, and expanded specialized certificate offerings.

He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Higher Education Administration and Human Development and Psychology. He has held appointments with the National Cancer Institute in Hawaii, the Spencer Foundation, the University of Chicago and completed his post-doctoral studies at the Harvard Medical School.  He served as a clinical intern at the Tavistock Institute in London where he worked as a consultant to the entertainment industry and as a leader in the treatment of refugee children suffering from trauma.

Dr. Gregory lived and worked in Austria, Germany, England, New Zealand, and Spain.  He is a Board member of the Oversees Education Fund, El Salvador, a non-profit organization that builds schools and health clinics in rural and poverty-stricken areas of the country and provides micro-credit loans.  He received the Littauer Fellow Master in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School and worked with the Public Diplomacy Collaborative and Shorenstein Center of Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard examining 21st century models of leadership.

He currently is the Director of the Organizational and Leadership Psychology program at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, which provides graduate degrees in Higher Education, Organizational Psychology and a new doctoral program in Leadership Psychology.  

 

PUBLICATIONS

NEW for 2013 Publication: Editor, Whole Leadership.  The Oxford Handbook of Whole Leadership. Oxford University Press, 2013.

Gregory, E. (2012). Children's Media Use: A Positive Psychology Approach. The Oxford Handbook of Media Psychology. Oxford University Press, 2012.

Gregory, E. (2006). Revolutionizing Organizational Development through Positive Psychology. OD Practitioner. South Orange, New Jersey: Organization Development Network.

Gregory, E. (2005). Positive Psychology. In Celia B. Fisher and Richard M. Lerner (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.

Zamarripa, M.X., Wampold, B.E., & Gregory, E. (2003). Male gender role conflict, depression, and anxiety: Clarification and generalizability to females. Journal of Counseling Psychology 50(30), 333-338.

Gregory, E. (2002). Psychological engagement in daily life. Doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.

AREAS OF FOCUS

• Adaptive Leadership
• Action Research
• Social Psychology of Business
• Positive Psychology and Organizational Structure
• Organizational and Leadership Psychology
• Media Psychology
• Narrativity