How can we use our time wisely and be happier in 2025?

Time is our most precious resource. We all have just 24 hours a day but our culture glorifies being busy and leaves us feeling like we never have enough. We can’t add more hours to the day, so how can we experience lives that are not just full, but also fulfilling?

At this special event Professor Cassie Holmes will explain how we can immediately improve life by changing how we perceive and invest our time. She will share new insights and tools to help you spend your time wisely, avoid distractions, create more joyful moments, build a purposeful schedule and look back without regrets.

Cassie's ground-breaking research will help you feel less overwhelmed, more present and more satisfied with your life overall. And she'll explain how it all starts by transforming just one hour into what she calls a "happier hour".

So join us and get 2025 off to a really positive start - with practical, science-based advice to live better. By investing in what really matters, you can change your life for the better.

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About the speaker

Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and an award-winning teacher and researcher - and a bestselling author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.

Cassie’s research examines such questions as 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. Cassie’s work has been published in such top-tier academic journals as Psychological Science and the Journal of Consumer Research. Her work has also featured on NPR and in publications such as The Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Scientific American and the Boston Globe.

Prof. Holmes developed and teaches the course Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design, which has become one of UCLA’s most popular courses. Pulling insights from research in psychology and behavioral decision making, this course provides students with ideas and tools to apply to improve their day-to-day living and the design of their career and life overall. She also has a Ph.D. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and a B.A. from Columbia.