Simon Chan

Simon Chan, MBA is a Global Ambassador for the Stanford Center on Longevity, Founder and CEO of Adapt with Intent, and Co-Chair of The Nexel Collaborative, a global alliance of universities advancing post-career learning and life transitions. A former Chair of the Board of Governors at Wilfrid Laurier University, a Canadian public university, he brings a distinctive cross-sector perspective shaped by leadership in university governance, global financial services, and Canada’s leading innovation ecosystem. Through senior strategy and innovation roles at Manulife Financial and Communitech, he has helped organizations navigate workforce transformation, demographic change, and emerging technologies. Recognized for his leadership in the emerging longevity field, he bridges higher education, workforce strategy, and longevity, helping boards, university leaders, and organizations rethink how institutions can support learning, work, contribution, and renewal across longer lives. He advances the concept of the Life Course University, exploring how longer lives, artificial intelligence, and demographic change are reshaping the role of universities as institutions that support learning, work, contribution, and renewal across the life course.