Author, founder and consultant working across AI, climate, decarbonisation and the way professionals think and work.
Christian Keel is the author of Thinking Further, a practical guide to working with AI without handing over the judgement that makes you useful.
He is also a founder and management consultant with fifteen years in consulting and corporate roles, including PwC, BTS and Edge Impact.
At Beyond Zero Emissions, Christian served as COO and Head of Federal Projects, where he scaled the organisation from three to twenty-five staff and scoped hundreds of national decarbonisation projects.
He now leads commercial growth across government, health and utilities at Escient.
Areas of Interest
The problems he works on:
National-scale climate challenges
Decarbonisation programs where the numbers are large, the coordination is hard, and progress depends on getting many parties moving in the same direction.
Ambiguous, high-stakes problems
Turning complexity into something a team can actually start on.
Change and transformation delivery
Including impact assessment, training needs analysis, program management and project delivery.
Residential decarbonisation and climate resilience
Making the economics of home energy legible to ordinary households.
Selected Experience
Escient
Business Development Director, Victoria
Commercial growth across government, health and utilities.
Beyond Zero Emissions
COO and Head of Federal Projects.
Scaled the team from 3 to 25, coordinated a large volunteer base and scoped hundreds of national decarbonisation projects.
Edge Impact, BTS & PwC
Consulting roles across strategy, change and sustainability.
At BTS, Christian built the Strategy Alignment and Business Acumen service line, delivering leadership programs to global corporate clients.
RMIT [Re]Launch Pre-Accelerator
Mentored emerging founders by providing guidance on venture development, business strategy and turning ideas into viable startups.
Education
Excecutive MBA
RMIT
Postgraduate Diploma of Psychology
Federation University
Bachelor of Commerce and Arts
University of Melbourne
Christian was selected for the Australian delegation to the World Circular Economy Forum in Helsinki and has been a keynote speaker at two international Circularity conferences.
He has also presented Thinking Further at Deakin University and RMIT University, with sessions for Victorian Government agencies following.
Current Venture
A soil intelligence venture applying AI to regenerative agriculture. Christian founded the company and took it through the 12-week CivVic Labs accelerator.