--- title: Howard Schultz at Arizona State: Read Commencement Speech description: Howard Schultz, the former CEO of Starbucks, delivered the commencement address at Arizona State University. Read the full speech here canonical: https://time.com/4773797/howard-schultz-commencement-address-arizona-state/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-10T15:07:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:50:42.551Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Howard Schultz's Commencement Speech at ASU: 'Your Generation Can Bring People Together' og:description: Read the former Starbucks CEO's full speech og:url: https://time.com/4773797/howard-schultz-commencement-address-arizona-state/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c79249ecb35a1e3/6988ccb8ab6d773ec26ae0af/howard-schultz-commencement-address-asu.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4200 og:image:height: 2363 og:image:alt: US-ECONOMY-STARBUCKS-enterprises og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Howard Schultz's Commencement Speech at ASU: 'Your Generation Can Bring People Together' twitter:description: Read the former Starbucks CEO's full speech twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c79249ecb35a1e3/6988ccb8ab6d773ec26ae0af/howard-schultz-commencement-address-asu.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz's Commencement Address at Arizona State University by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 10, 2017 3:07 PM UTC  Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz speaks at the annual meeting of shareholders in Seattle, Washington on March 22, 2017. Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz speaks at the annual meeting of shareholders in Seattle, Washington on March 22, 2017.Jason Redmond—AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 10, 2017 3:07 PM UTC [_Starbucks_](http://fortune.com/fortune500/starbucks-146/) _executive chairman_ [_Howard Schultz_](http://fortune.com/2017/05/09/howard-schultz-starbucks-arizona-state-commencement-speech/)_, the company’s former CEO, delivered the_ [_commencement address_](https://vimeo.com/216709188) _at Arizona State University on Monday._ --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4773797/howard-schultz-commencement-address-arizona-state/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4773797/howard-schultz-commencement-address-arizona-state/"},"headline":"Read Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz's Commencement Address at Arizona State University","datePublished":"2017-05-10T15:07:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:50:42.551Z","description":"\"Summon your compassion, your curiosity, your empathy towards others\"","url":"https://time.com/4773797/howard-schultz-commencement-address-arizona-state/","keywords":["Education","College","Commencement","graduation","transcript","transcripts","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c79249ecb35a1e3/6988ccb8ab6d773ec26ae0af/howard-schultz-commencement-address-asu.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c79249ecb35a1e3/6988ccb8ab6d773ec26ae0af/howard-schultz-commencement-address-asu.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-ECONOMY-STARBUCKS-enterprises","caption":"US-ECONOMY-STARBUCKS-enterprises","creditText":"Jason Redmond—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/education/","name":"Education"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4773797/howard-schultz-commencement-address-arizona-state/","name":"Read Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz's Commencement Address at Arizona State University"}}]}] ```