Keynotes
Keynote Speaker
Nov 2020: Keynote Speaker at DCU’s Transform and Scale-up Conference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syVwGW_DA0k
Nov 2020: Keynote Speaker at EBN Congress- “Regional Ecosystems shaping European Innovation”. EBN is a network of 140 quality-certified EU|BICs (business and innovation centres), and 40 other organisations that support the development and growth of innovative entrepreneurs, start-ups, and SMEs.
June 2019: Keynote Speaker at Diana Impact Day, Boston where 200+ entrepreneurship stakeholders congregated to collectively explore practical solutions, develop best practices in acceleration and funding, and generate needed policy solutions.
Jan 2019: Keynote speaker at PwC Event on Diversity and Inclusion.
Sept 2018: Keynote speaker at Google Event on The Entrepreneurial Mindset
May 2018: Invited to Áras an Uachtaráin by President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina to celebrate Female Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Creativity, and the Sustainable Economy.
April 2018: A keynote speaker at the Skillsnet Ireland SME Research Stakeholder Conference - Stimulating SME Growth in Ireland.
March 2018: Keynote speaker at Bank of Ireland and Enterprise Ireland’s International Women’s Day Event.
March 2016: Keynote speaker at the 2016 PWC Annual Family Business Survey Launch
https://www.pwc.ie/survey/2016-irish-family-business-survey.html
In the news
Media Coverage
July 2021: The Irish Independent: Does working from home mean falling down the career ladder?
Feb 2018: Forbes: Do Women-Only Networking Groups Harm Female Entrepreneurship?
Feb 2019: The Irish Times: DCU gets €1m funding to examine issues affecting female entrepreneurs (Funding part of EU initiative to improve gender equality through institutional change)
March 2018: The Irish Times: Entrepreneurship: what’s gender got to do with it?
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/entrepreneurship-what-s-gender-got-to-do-with-it-1.3442058
March 2018: Women Mean Business: The Entrepreneurial Mindset
https://www.womenmeanbusiness.com/2018/03/the-entrepreneurial-mindset/
March 2017:The Irish Times: Business networking for women only: Is there still a need?
‘It’s not that it’s any less competitive – women are as driven to succeed as men’
Oct 2015: The Conversation: Do Tech Accelerators have a sexism problem?
https://theconversation.com/do-tech-accelerators-have-a-sexism-problem-47072
On the air
Radio
In June 2016, I was invited to appear on Dublin City Fm’s “Women Hour” to comment on the role of Women in Family Businesses with Trish McConn from Dualway.
Podcasts
Podcasts
April 2021: Featured on the Women in Leadership Podcast with Angie Mezzeti. (3rd most downloaded)
Photo Gallery
May 2018: Invited to Áras an Uachtaráin by President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina to celebrate Female Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Creativity and the Sustainable Economy.
March 2017- Bank of Ireland International Women’s Day Event
June 2022: The Diana Conference and Impact Day, with the Ukrainian Ambassador Larysa Gerasko
March 2016: Keynote speaker at the 2016 PWC Annual Family Business Survey Launch
Nov 2020: Keynote Speaker at EBN Congress- “Regional Ecosystems shaping European Innovation”.
Sept 2018: Keynote speaker at Google Event on The Entrepreneurial Mindset