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Ben Keene
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Transform purpose into action with Ben Keene, impact entrepreneur, community builder and event host. Ben works with organisations to create genuine belonging, design purpose-driven businesses, and harness AI for social good. Founder of multiple successful ventures including Raaise and Rebel Book Club, he speaks at prestigious venues from CIA Las Vegas to London Tech Week.
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Ben Keene is a global community builder, impact entrepreneur, and trusted event host who helps leaders, teams, and organisations turn purpose into action.
Ben has founded multiple successful ventures, including an eco-village on a remote Fijian island, the global Rebel Book Club learning community, and Raaise, a climate tech funding platform. His speaking engagements span prestigious venues from the CIA in Las Vegas, London Tech Week and Blue Earth Summit, to leading global clients like Samsung, Weatherby's and Airbnb.
Through his work, Ben helps organisations create genuine connection and belonging that drives performance. He specialises in showing leaders how to build communities rather than just teams, design businesses that deliver both profit and purpose, and harness AI responsibly to accelerate social impact. His approach combines an entrepreneurial mindset with practical frameworks that address today's most pressing business challenges.
Audiences leave Ben's sessions with immediately applicable tools like the Tribe Builder Method, techniques for turning uncertainty into progress, and designs for creating lasting communities. His story-driven, participatory style ensures participants gain practical skills rather than just inspiration.
Book Ben when you need more than ideas – when you need the energy, frameworks and confidence to turn purpose into action.
Topics, sessions and talks
Ben Keene demystifies artificial intelligence and reframes it as a force for social and environmental benefit. Drawing on real-world examples, he explains how individuals and organisations can use AI responsibly to enhance creativity, inclusion, and impact. His optimistic and practical approach invites audiences to see technology not as a threat, but as a tool for purposeful innovation and positive change.
Ben Keene shows how adopting an entrepreneurial mindset—curiosity, experimentation, and empathy—can drive creativity and adaptability in every profession. Using stories from his ventures and global collaborations, he illustrates how to transform uncertainty into progress, challenge assumptions, and design work that matters. His sessions encourage individuals and teams to think like builders, not bystanders, in shaping their future.
Ben Keene explores how genuine connection, shared purpose, and belonging can transform teams into thriving communities. Drawing on his experience building movements around the world, he shares practical methods to create trust, collaboration, and energy at work. His approach helps leaders move beyond hierarchy to foster a sense of ownership and identity that drives both performance and wellbeing.
Ben Keene reveals how community-building principles can unlock innovation in climate technology. He explains why every successful environmental solution starts with people united by shared purpose and values. Combining entrepreneurial insight with on-the-ground experience, he demonstrates how organisations can design ventures that deliver profit and purpose in equal measure, turning collaboration into a competitive advantage.
Ben Keene transforms organisations by building purpose-driven communities that deliver both profit and impact, drawing on his success with ventures from Fijian eco-villages to climate tech platforms. Book Ben to host or speak at your next event for an experience that connects people, ideas, and action.
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Ben Keene structures sessions around personal venture narratives — drawing on experiences such as founding an eco-village in Fiji and the Rebel Book Club — paired with named practical frameworks, including the Tribe Builder Method, which participants can apply directly following the session.
Ben Keene's sessions cover responsible AI for social and environmental benefit, entrepreneurial mindset and adaptability, and building communities through shared purpose and belonging. He is the founder of Rebel Book Club and an eco-village in Fiji, with speaking credits at London Tech Week, Blue Earth Summit, and for clients including Samsung and Airbnb.
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