Keynotes
Helsinki (Finland), 15th-17th June, 2026Professor Jari Hakanen
University of Helsinki (Finland)
Jari Hakanen is a research professor at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, a docent in social psychology in the University of Helsinki and a visiting professor at Keio University, Tokyo. His areas of expertise include positive work psychology and occupational health psychology with special interests in work engagement, burnout, job boredom, servant leadership, job crafting, work-family interface, and mental health. He has received gold medal of special merit for particularly distinguished and long-standing nationwide efforts to promote better work environments in Finland, as well as the advocate of good working life and the Finnish working life researcher of the year awards. Together with his collaborators he has received the best article awards from Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and from Journal of Organizational Behavior. He is convinced that despite many on-going work-life changes, workplaces are able to build sustainable well-being and flourishing.

Professor Sabine Sonnentag
University of Mannheim (Germany)
