Commencement Speaker

Commencement Speaker 2025: Simone Stolzoff

Simone Stolzoff
Author, Writer, Journalist

Simone Stolzoff is an author, designer, and workplace expert from San Francisco. A former design lead at the global innovation firm IDEO, he regularly works with leaders—from the Surgeon General of the United States to the Chief Talent Officer at Google—on how to make the workplace more human-centered. His journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, and numerous other publications. His debut book The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work was published by Penguin Random House and is currently the #1 bestselling work-life-balance book in the country. He is a graduate of Stanford and The University of Pennsylvania.