Cassie Holmes

Cassie Holmes is a Professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Cassie is an expert on time and happiness and author of the upcoming book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, which is based on her wildly popular MBA course, Life Design for Happiness. Cassie's research on the role of time in cultivating life satisfaction has been published in leading academic journals and earned her multiple Early Career Awards. Cassie was identified by Poets & Quants as one of the best 40 business professors under 40, and popular accounts of her research have been featured on NPR and in such publications as The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Scientific American. Previously, Cassie was a tenured faculty member and award-winning teacher at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a Ph.D. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and a B.A. from Columbia.