SINEAD HEWSON:
Sinéad Hewson founded the Dutch impact start-up Unconventional Innovators, a community of innovators, changemakers & doctorates who don't fit the mainstream. She works internationally on transformation, business scale-ups, and high performance. Her background is in health, business and communication, with a focus on co-opetition, group dynamics and transformative mindsets. She completed her PhD in TU Dublin, Ireland, researching decision-making when communication is at the heart of an organisation’s strategy development. She has held a number of board positions in organisations focused on gender equity, health policy and online health delivery and is listed as an EU expert. Sinéad speaks internationally, lectures at Webster University Leiden and is based in the Netherlands.
UNCONVENTIONAL INNOVATORS:
Our purpose is to tackle low participation rates of under-represented groups in the innovation eco-system. We aim to achieve this by developing a community and platform that provides users with resources, tools and supports to bring their innovative ideas, work-arounds and know-how into real world situations. There are three pillars in our business model: leadership (Unconventional Leaders), innovation & research (Unconventional Doctorates) and entrepreneurship (Unconventional Entrepreneurs. In 2025 our focus is on Unconventional Doctorates.More...