The Lavin Agency Speakers Bureau
A speakers bureau that represents the best original thinkers,
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A speakers bureau that represents the best original thinkers,
writers, and doers for speaking engagements.
When we treat our time as a precious resource, we gain purpose, motivation, and happier lives.
How do we increase our creativity, happiness, and ability to pay attention? We never seem to have enough time to do it all, but CASSIE HOLMES says that time isn’t only a challenge—it’s the solution. Cassie—UCLA professor and one of the Best 40 Business Professors Under 40—is the bestselling author of Happier Hour, a practical guide to taking control of time and finding fulfillment. It’s a Wall Street Journal bestseller that Amazon named one of their 20 top Business and Leadership books of the year. Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, saying, “As thorough as it is practical, this one’s well worth readers’ time.” A leading speaker on the science of happiness, Cassie will show you why too much free time is as bad as too little, how we can get time-rich instead of time-poor, and actionable strategies for designing a happier week.
“[Happier Hour] has an intellectual heft that puts this a notch above similar volumes, and her presentation remains accessible and remarkably unstuffy throughout.”— Publishers Weekly starred review
Everyone who’s ever expressed frustration at not having enough time to do the things they truly enjoy has probably been met with this response: make time. For Cassie Holmes, renowned happiness expert, it’s not about making time—it’s about protecting the time we already have. An award-winning professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision-Making at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Cassie’s research examines how focusing on time (rather than money) increases happiness, how the meaning of happiness changes over the course of one’s lifetime, and how much happiness people enjoy from extraordinary versus ordinary experiences. When we’re able to see our days, weeks, months, years, and careers broken down into the quality of our time, we can use that information to reconstruct our schedules, and lives, based on what we need. “In my empirical pursuit of happiness, I’m just hoping to help people of all ages find a bit more happiness in their lives,” Cassie says.
Cassie’s groundbreaking book Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most is a bright, deeply relatable guide to recharging and the ultimate antidote to overscheduling. Cassie reveals why having too much free time is as unsatisfying as too little (two to five hours each day is best), and how to build days that aren’t just full—but fulfilling. Katy Milkman, bestselling author of How to Change, calls “an absolute gem–useful, evidence-based, and a pleasure to read. Armed with the insights conveyed in Happier Hour, we can all find greater fulfillment in the time we have.”
Cassie’s research has been published in such top-tier academic journals as Psychological Science and the Journal of Consumer Research. Popular accounts of her work have been featured on NPR and appeared in The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Scientific American, The Washington Post, and many more. Her research on “giving time” was featured in New York Times Magazine’s “32 Innovations that Will Change Your Tomorrow.” She was called one of the Best 40 Business Professors Under 40 in Poets & Quants, and received the Early Career Award for her distinguished scholarly contributions to her field from both the Association of Consumer Research and the Society of Consumer Psychology. The course she developed and now teaches, Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design, is among UCLA’s most popular for MBAs and Executive MBAs alike.
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. She’s also a faculty affiliate with The UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute—an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to the research, education, and practice of kindness.
Speaker on Stress and Leadership in the Workplace Columbia Business School Professor Host of The TED Business Podcast
Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at Wharton 2024 "Top 40 Under 40" Business Professor Author, Femonomics (Forthcoming)
Prof. of Social Psychology & Organizational Behavior at Stanford Director of the Polarization and Social Change Lab
Speaker on Stress and Leadership in the Workplace Columbia Business School Professor Host of The TED Business Podcast
Author, Ordinary Magic Co-Director, Dweck-Walton Lab at Stanford Professor of Psychology, Stanford
Author, A Brief History of Intelligence AI Entrepreneur and Founder of Bluecore Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree
First Deputy National Cyber Director for Technology and Ecosystem Security Former White House AI Council Member Former Google Global Head of Product Security Strategy
Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School Author of Alive at Work
Author of Jerks at Work and Job Therapy NYU Professor of Psychology
Author of Grit, the #1 New York Times Bestseller | Pioneering Researcher on Grit, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
2024 Nobel Prize Winner | 3rd Most Cited Economist in the World | MIT Institute Professor | Bestselling Co-Author of Why Nations Fail and Power and Progress
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Creator of The 1619 Project | Executive Producer of the Emmy Award-Winning 1619 Project Hulu Docuseries | MacArthur Genius
Nike's Former Chief Marketing Officer | Author of Emotion by Design
CEO of The Atlantic | Former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED
Our most precious resource isn’t money—it’s time. We’re allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture that keeps us feeling time poor —like we never have enough. Since we can’t add more hours to the day, how can we optimally spend the time we do have and feel confident in our decisions—for ourselves and our employees?
Based on her wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Profe...