Faculty and Leadership Team

Econa has a global faculty of world-class and entrepreneur-centric clinicians, coaches, scientists, founders, investors, builders, academic researchers, instructors and thought leaders. Our faculty and leadership team members have come together to help you thrive and to build wellness, effectiveness and mental health resources for the global innovation ecosystem.

Wellness and Effectiveness Team

Michael A. Freeman, M.D.

Founder and author, Are Entrepreneurs Touched with Fire.

Adrienne Heinz, Ph.D.

Econa core faculty member and clinical research scientist at the VA National Center for PTSD and Stanford University School of Medicine.

Kerry Makin-Byrd, Ph.D.

Econa core faculty member, psychologist, researcher and fourth-generation American entrepreneur.

Phil Boissiere, MFT

Econa core faculty member, executive coach, adult ADHD and couples counseling specialist and entrepreneur.

Aaron Frazin

Econa core faculty member, executive coach, group facilitator, and entrepreneur.

Prapti Mehta, MD

Econa core faculty member, psychiatrist, specialist in trauma and women’s health and mindfulness.

Entrepreneurship Team

Erik Severinghaus, M.B.A.

Serial innovator and entrepreneur

Brian Requarth

Founder, Latitud; co-founder and CEO, Viva Real. Angel investor

Stephen Hays, M.B.A.

Founder, What If Ventures

Academic Relations Advisor

Tools for Founders Curator

Uri Neren, MBA

Serial entrepreneur, entrepreneurship policy advisor

Adri Jayaratne, M.A.

Chief of Staff, U.C. San Francisco Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Laura Shook Guzman, LMFT

Entrepreneur psychotherapist, Founder, Conscious Ambition and Co-founder, Women Who Cowork

Scientific Advisors

Johan Wiklund, Ph.D.

Al Berg Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University. Editor-in-Chief for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and co-author, Exploring the heart: entrepreneurial emotion is a hot topic