Co-founder: Harmonious Entrepreneurship Society
Co-director: Harmonious Entrepreneurship Ltd
Dr. Felicity Healey-Benson (BSc, PGCE, MSc, MBA, DBA, FHEA) practices as a Lead Researcher and Entrepreneurial Learning Champion at the International Institute for Creative Entrepreneurial Development, Research, Innovation, and Enterprise Services, University of Wales Trinity St David. In 2022, she completed a doctoral study exploring the lived experience of higher education lecturers fostering higher order thinking skills in students. Her research and publication portfolio builds on her previous teaching experience across academic and professional programs in areas such as leadership, strategy, sustainability, and entrepreneurship. She has led the development of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as a breadth of professional qualifications. As an academic entrepreneur, Felicity set up Emergent Thinkers.com and Pirates in Education to promote new educational and business practices for sustainability and wider economic and social development. Felicity is an EntreComp Champion who led Dafen Primary School, Llanelli, to achieve Pioneer EntreCompEdu and EntreComp status globally. She is co-founder, with Dr Mike Johnson, of hanfod.NL which aims to shape and strengthen phenomenology’s contribution to networked learning. Felicity is actively engaged with numerous professional associations and networks related to her research, entrepreneurship education, coaching, and sustainability interests. She has taken on a breath of roles ranging from primary school governance, and local council education scrutiny committee representation, to her university’s Humanities Development Board. Prior to academia, she worked as a Kaizen Technician and Continuous Improvement Engineer at Unipart, supporting culture change through embedded continuous improvement. She later transitioned into consultancy roles focused on business improvement, learning, and development across sectors including housing, local government, and e-commerce.
With Professor David A Kirby, she co-founded the Harmonious Entrepreneurship Society.
“I believe passionately entrepreneurship, and specifically a harmonious approach, is key to the transformation of our current learning ecosystem, and, specifically, can help promote new literacies and applied creativity and innovation in support of the UN’s Sustainability Development Goals”.
https://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/staff/felicity-healey-benson/
https://www.emergentthinkers.com/about-felicity
What People Say
David changed my academic life by his insightful thoughts during the last ten years. We held workshops on Entrepreneurial Universities in Turkey and Iran with @Hiroko_ENTR
Aidin Salamzadeh Faculty Member @ University of Tehran; Editorial Advisory Board @ The Bottom Line (Emerald)
David inspired my career. I was trained by him at a UKSEC bootcamp for #EntEd ers in 2005 after I was teaching Ent Finance for 5 years to expand my portfolio. I was delighted when he came to Egypt and I had thought provoking conversations with him
Shima Barakat Entrepreneur| Director| Academic| Mentor committed to growing sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems
Felicity brings new energy, fresh thinking and years of practical thinking to entrepreneurship education. In particular, Felicity is asking new and old questions of the field, finding new answers and forcing us all to revisit our current assumptions.
Assoc. Prof Colin Jones, University of Southern Queensland & Author of ‘How to Teach Entrepreneurship’ (2019) & ‘How to Become an Entrepreneurship Educator’ (2020)
HES 2020-2024 