Programs & Workshops
From keynotes and full-day retreats to webinars and workshops, every Econa program translates peer-reviewed science into practical frameworks for entrepreneur resilience, wellbeing and mental health. Programs are delivered by Econa's speakers — Dr. Michael Freeman, Cristina Poindexter and Dustin D. McMahon — and every engagement includes the live Entrepreneur Wellbeing Check.
Core Programs
Four research-grounded programs in entrepreneur resilience, wellbeing and mental health — each designed to meet entrepreneurs and their ecosystems where they are. Alongside them, Econa's speakers bring four talks built on the same body of science.
High-functioning stress is part of the entrepreneurial profile — but unmanaged, it compounds. This program delivers evidence-based tools for recognizing, regulating, and channeling stress in the context of venture-building, drawing on Econa's clinical and research expertise.
Learn More →Burnout among entrepreneurs is not a character flaw — it is a predictable outcome of misaligned systems. This program helps entrepreneurs and their support ecosystems identify early warning signals, build recovery protocols, and design sustainable operating rhythms.
Learn More →Research associates entrepreneurship with unique personality traits and a set of mental health concerns including ADHD, depression, and bipolar spectrum conditions. These mental health differences embed entrepreneurial superpowers and vulnerabilities. This program helps investors, board members, and advisors understand, support, and unlock the upside of neurodivergent entrepreneurs.
Learn More →A structured three-module series built for accelerators, university entrepreneurship programs, and incubators introducing entrepreneur resilience, wellbeing and mental health at the cohort level. Module 1: Self-Awareness. Module 2: Tools & Frameworks. Module 3: Building a Resilient Team Culture.
Learn More →The Speaker Series
Two speakers. One body of science. Cristina Poindexter and Dustin D. McMahon bring four talks to founder communities, investors and ecosystems — every engagement includes the live Entrepreneur Wellbeing Check, run anonymously in the room in real time.
A science-backed call to shift startup culture from surviving to thriving. Most founders operate closer to survival than they admit, and most stay silent about it. This keynote reframes founder wellbeing as a measurable spectrum, and sends audiences home with the language, the science, and one concrete next step.
Best for Founder communities, accelerators, conferences · Formats Keynote · Fireside · Interactive workshop
A working session on the science of founder health — and your firm's stance toward it. An evidence-first salon on what the research actually shows: mental health challenges touch most founders — not an anomaly, but part of the entrepreneurial mind itself. Investors leave with the science, shared language, and a map of the roles they can play, from passive to reactive to proactive — each modeled by leading firms, each open at any level of budget or expertise.
Best for VC firms, family offices, boards · Formats Investor salon · Briefing · Keynote
Bridging the gap between research and practice. There is no shortage of wellbeing research, or of advice, but the bridge between them is missing. Dustin translates what the science actually supports into practices a founder can use the next morning, cutting through the noise to what holds up under pressure.
Best for Founder communities, accelerators, teams · Formats Keynote · Workshop
An interactive case study on what founders actually feel. Founders get endless advice on what to do, and almost none on what it feels like to do it. This interactive session walks through a real founder's story and stops on the moments people rarely admit to, leaving the room with shared language for the hardest parts of building.
Best for Founder communities, intimate salons · Formats Interactive session · Fireside
Speaking & Events
Keynotes and workshops from Econa's team of entrepreneurs, researchers, and clinicians. Whether you are hosting a cohort kickoff, an LP summit, or a university entrepreneurship week, an Econa speaker delivers talks that move audiences — and leave them with tools they will actually use. Availability is limited. Engagements are accepted selectively.
Keynote presentations, 60–90 minute workshops, half-day retreats and full-day programs — every Econa program translates peer-reviewed science into practical frameworks for entrepreneur resilience, wellbeing and mental health.
A workshop that gives investment teams a research-backed framework for understanding entrepreneur neurodiversity, supporting entrepreneurs effectively, and reducing preventable entrepreneur churn.
Through the Book an Econa Speaker page — choose a program, a format, and submit the event inquiry form.