• Keynote "Entrepreneurship and the Future of Work: Pathways to Misery or Happiness?", 22nd European Congress of Work Psychology, May 21-24, 2025, Prague, Czech Republic https://eawop2025.com/

• Keynote "Wellbeing in Family Firms", IFERA 2025 CONFERENCE, June 2025,  Zadar, Croatia https://ifera.org/ifera-2025/

• Keynote "What we know and what we still need to know about entrepreneurs' wellbeing and health", 4th Health in Entrepreneurship Research Forum, Oct 10 & 11, 2024, Montpellier, France https://he-2024-montpellier.fr

• Conducting Experiments in Entrepreneurship Research, "Experimenting to Enhance Entrepreneur Well-Being?", 4th Paper Development Workshop for Early-Career Scholars, Groningen, NL, Feb 28-March 2, 2023

• Rencontre de St. Gall, August 29-31, 2022, Keynote "The Dark and Bright Sides of Entrepreneurship: A Multi-Level Perspective" St. Gallen, Switzerland

• German Congress of Psychology - Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie (DGPs) Kongress, Keynote "The Psychology of Entrepreneurs‘ Well-being: The State of the Art and Insights for the Future of Work" Sept 11-15, 2022 , Hildesheim, Germany.

• 20th IECER - Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship, Keynote "Resilient, Responsible and Sustainable Entrepreneurship: A Wellbeing Perspective" , Oct 26-28, 2022, Maastricht, The Netherlands

• 5th Entrepreneurial Process Workshop, How to publish: Focus on theoretical contributions, 25 April 2022, University of Seville Spain

• Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Post-Crisis Times Conference, Entrepreneurship, Covid-19 and Creativity, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain

• 32nd International Congress of Psychology, Keynote Psychology of Economics & Business: Entrepreneurs’ Mental Health and Wellbeing: A Review and Insights for the Future of Work July 2021, Prague, Czech Republic, https://www.icp2020.com/

• DIANA 2021 Conference, Female Entrepreneurship & Wellbeing, May 20-21, Nice, France

• 4PDS, The Future of Entrepreneurship, 26 April 2021, Seville Spain

• 16th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference, Indiana University, Kelly School of Business, Nov 8-9, 2019, USA, https://kelley.iu.edu/news-events/events/bloomington/social-entrepreneurship-conference-2019/index.cshtml

• Social Entrepreneurship Festival, 'Social Entrepreneurship and Social Inclusion: Between Fact and Fiction', June 20, 2018 University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

• 'Entrepreneurship, Well-being and Mental Health, Keynote at IMES - 6th Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Conference, May 30-June 1st 2018, Prague, Czech Republic

• 'Entrepreneurs' Mental Health and Well-being', Keynote at Entrepreneurial Process Workshop, University of Seville, Spain, April 2-3, 2018

• 'How to get published', Keynote at Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, Brisbane, Australia December 18, 2017.

• ‘Social Entrepreneurship: Proactivity for Social Change’, Keynote at European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, Dublin, Ireland, May 17-20, 2017.

• ‘Social Capital, Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship’, Keynote at Estonian Entrepreneurship University Conference‚ Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Organizational and Social Capital as a Key for Future Success, Tallinn, Estonia, May 4, 2017.

• ‘Organizations as Drivers of Social Change’ , Keynote at IESE-LUISS Conference on Responsibility, Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship, Rome, Italy, April 18-19, 2017.

• ‘Social Entrepreneurship and Social Change’, Keynote at International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC), Glasgow, September 5-7, 2016. 

• ‘Successful Social Entrepreneurship: Pathways to Social Change’, Keynote at the International Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship (ISSE) in Singapore April 22, 2016.

Invited podcasts

• LOWcast Are Entrepreneurs the Happiest People on Earth? link (spotify) link (LOW website)

• Brain for Business Podcast The Psychology of Entrepreneurship link

• The Most Awesome Founder Podcast Mitigating Startup Founder Burnout link (spotify)

• NAKED Podcast by the Future Farm Entrepreneurs' Mental Health link

• Enterprise Research Centre: The mental health and wellbeing of entrepreneurs link 

King's Business School 

• Office Hours Podcast: Why aren't more women social entrepreneurs? Cari Street speaks with Arosha Brouwer, CEO of Quan and Professor Ute Stephan

• Connections Podcast: How entrepreneurs can focus on their well-being while building their businesses (I speak to entrepreneurs Janos Barberis and David Walsh)

2025

• Reflections on 2025 JIBS Decade award “Revisiting Institutions and Social Entrepreneurship” Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY, June 28-July 2

• Women's Entrepreneurship, spoke at APPG 'Women and Work' meeting, 17 June 2025, here

• Women's Entrepreneurship, spoke at oral evidence session in UK Parliament, Common's Select Committee "Women and Equalities", 2 April 2025, recording here, press release; written evidence submission

• Entrepreneurial well-being, business growth and marketing, Alliance Manchester Business School, SME event, 6 Feb 2025

• Academic presentation: UCL 27 Jan 2025

2024

• European Commission, SME Assembly 2024, Nov 18-20, 2024, Budapest, Invited speaker on Sustainable Enterprise panel (video recording here), and Policy workshop 'The future ways of working: Mental Health Burden'

• The Past and Future of Entrepreneurship Research, University of Siegen, 5 July 2024 

• Oxford Residence Week for Entrepreneurship Scholars, Worcester College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

• Measuring Progress Seminar Series, STATEC, National Institute of Statistics and Economy, Luxembourg, March 21st, 2024, online research talk "Wellbeing and Entrepreneurship: What we know and what we still need to know", recording: https://youtu.be/fq7vbWDAPPM  

2023

• European Commission, SME Assembly 2023, Nov 15-18, 2023, Bilbao, Expert Roundtable Sustainable Enterprise

• Malta Enterprise Festival Oct 6, 2023, Malta, Keynote "Mindful Entrepreneurship" (link)

• ERC State of Small Business Britain Conference, "Entrepreneurship & the Pandemic", The Shard, London, 21 June 2023

• Keynote "Culture and Innovation", LERU Enterprise & Innovation (ENTE) Policy Group Meeting, March 7, 2023

• "Light and Dark Sides of Religion in Social Entrepreneurship", L.I.F.E. Research Conference, April 6, 2023

• EmpreSomos Central Amercia, Entrepreneurship and Wellbeing, June, 2023

• Oxford Residence Week for Entrepreneurship Scholars, Worcester College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

• Academic presentations: Aston Business School

2022

• European Commission, SME Assembly 2022, Nov 28-30, 2022, Prague, Expert Roundtable Sustainable Enterprise

• Oxford Residence Week for Entrepreneurship Scholars, Worcester College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, June 2022

• Health and Entrepreneurship Conference, October 6 & 7, 2022, Chicago, USA

• A better tomorrow? Work and Well-being in the Entrepreneurial Society, Steninge, Sweden 

• 'Why and how should social entrepreneurs engage with policy maker?' Impact Hub, OECD, Webinar, March 2022

• "The resilience of women-led businesses and women social entrepreneurship" King's Entrepreneurship Institute Event with the leader of the Labour party Sir Keir Starmer MP and the Shadow Chancellor of theExchequer Rachel Reeves MP, March 8, 2022

• Economic Behavior and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Cooperation, Consumption and Entrepreneurs, IAAP Webinar, Insights from Economic Psychology

• Spring Abilities Institute, Webinar 

• Inequality and Social Entrepreneurship, Instituto de Cidadania Empresarial (ICE), National Assembly, Brazil 

• TransCampus, TU Dresden-King's College Showcase for Saxon Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport

• Academic presentations: NEOMA Business School (Paris, France), Manchester University Business School

2021

• European Commission, SME Assembly 2021, Nov 16, 2021, Expert Roundtable Sustainable Entrepreneurship: SMEs in Europe after the pandemic and in view of the Green Deal, listen to the highlights in this podcast

• Erasmus Entrepreneurship Event & Valedictory Address for Roy Thurik, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam,  26. Nov. 2021 

• "Evidence Building for Policy Making Sandbox: Reflecting on SE policy", invited contribution to Jorden Social Enterprise Summit, 29. Nov. 2021

• Invited ECSB Webinar "New outcomes and new methods in entrepreneurship research: Understanding and Researching Entrepreneurial Well-Being and Recovery", 19 May 2021

• The Social Economy & Entrepreneurship post-Covid, Social Impact Hub Policy event, June 29th online

• International Expert Podcast “How does the Covid pandemic affect small and medium-sized enterprises? Which economic policy measures can strengthen their resilience in the future?” European Commission & Institute fuer Mittelstandsforschung (IFM Bonn) here

• Global Entrepreneurship Network UK (GEN UK), Wellbeing - Flying Lessons for Women Entrepreneurs, 8 March 2021, online, recording here

• 89 London, The Effects and Consequences of Covid-19 on SMEs, 23 Feb 2021, recording

• Westminster Business Forum, Jan 26, 2021, Priorities for supporting new businesses to start-up and scale-up in the UK 

• Academic presentations: University of Exeter, University of Kassel,  IFM Bonn & University of Siegen, European Business School, Middlesex University 

2020

• Global Entrepreneurship Week, "Entrepreneurs' Well-being and Resilience: Why you should care about your well-being as an entrepreneur, and how you can do that" , Nov 20, 2020 

• Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Issue Forum, Health, Health Care Access and their Impact on Entrepreneurship: Landscape and Policy Considerations, Oct 29, 2020 

• European Commission, SME Assembly 2020, Expert Roundtable, The impact of COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs, Society and Policy in Europe, Nov 17, 2020, recording of the roundtable, summary of insights

• Oxford University, Happiness Institute, UK: Happiness Festival 2020 in support the WHO COVID-19 Relief Fund, 24-26 July 2020; What do we know about the 'Well-being of Entrepreneurs' 

• OECD, Paris, France (invited expert, Expert Workshop on Heterogeneity in Entrepreneurship) 

• Academic presentations: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile; Warwick University, Warwick Business School, UK

2019

• MIT – King’s Summit on Health Entrepreneurship, UK http://mitkingslondonsummit.com/

• Academic: Rutgers University, Rutgers Business School, Newark, USA; University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Dresden University of Technology, Faculty of Psychology, Germany

2018

• Academic: WU Wien/Vienna University of Business and Economics, Austria; Victoria University Wellington, Faculty of Psychology, New Zealand; University of Sydney, Business School, Australia; University of Queensland, Business School, Australia; University of Adelaide, Business School, Australia; Queensland University of Technology, Business School, Australia; Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic; London South Bank University, UK

2017

• European Commission, Expert Group for Social Entrepreneurship (GECES), Brussels, Belgium

• Academic: University of Oxford, Said Business School, UK; Ivey Business School, Western University, London, ON, Canada; KU Leuven, Flanders Business School, Belgium; University of Surrey, Guildford, UK; Invited speaker Journal of Business Venturing, Special issue Workshop, Entrepreneurship and Well-being, Sveninge, Sweden

• Ghent University, Business School, Belgium

• University of Bath, Centre for Research on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, UK

• University of East Anglia Business School, Norwich, UK

2016

• National University of Singapore, NUS Business School, Singapore

• EAWOP (European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology) Early Career Summer School, Aston Business School, UK

• EFEISIS Social Entrepreneurship Conference, Brussels, Belgium

• Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK, Aston University

• Japan Foundation & Kobe University, London, UK

2015

• London School of Economics (LSE), UK

• ESSEC Business School, France

• European Commission and OECD Expert Workshop on ‘Strategies and Policies to Scale-up the impact of Social Enterprises’, Brussels, Belgium

• Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, BIS Enterprise Research Conference, London

• UnLtd SEE Change Scale & Growth Conference, Nottingham.

• Social Entrepreneurship Exchange Network, Birmingham

• EFESEIIS Stakeholder Workshop, Warsaw, Poland

2014

• UK Parliament, House of Commons, Policy Breakfast, London, UK

• Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands,

• University of Reading, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Workshop, UK

• International Forum on the “Development of Social Enterprises in China”, Shanghai, China

• 2010-2013

• European Commission, Europe 2020 strategy conference, Brussels, Belgium.

• Ivey Business School, Network of Business Sustainability (NBS) Industry Leadership Council, Toronto, Canada

• University of Stavangar, Norway.

• Aston Business School, Birmingham, UK

• Birmingham Leadership Foundation, Enterprise Adventure programme, Birmingham.

• ESRC Seminar Series “Reconstructing Social Enterprise”, Sheffield Hallam University

• CIPD South Yorkshire, Sheffield, UK

• Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK

• ESRC Festival of Social Science Event, Entrepreneurial leadership, Sheffield, UK.