Ben Wintour is a social entrepreneur, experienced creative leader and a judge on the Social Entreprenuer Index.

Ben was listed by Forbes as a 30 Under 30 social entrepreneur alongside Greta Thunberg, by the BBC worldwide as a person ‘changing the world’, by Red Bull as a key change maker and by Men’s Health as an ‘affable bloke’.

Ben’s real passion lies in working with teams to conceive and accelerate ideas that make a positive difference in the world. He has been mentored by some of the world’s greatest leaders in business, including the global chair of Tesla Motors. His dedication to social change has also been recognised at a national level by the UK Prime Minister.

Throughout his career Ben has launched initiatives and campaigns that look to tackle social and health issues including knife crime, poor mental health, smoking, blood shortage and climate change.

Most notable initiatives include Steel Warriors and Temple.

Steel Warriors is an anti knife crime charity that melt down knives taken off the street and recycle them into free outdoor community gyms. The gyms have been described by Men’s Health as the ‘best gyms in the world’. Ben dreamt up the idea with his co-founder and led the charities’ first campaign, reaching over 800 million people worldwide in over 42 different countries with no media spend. He also built a multi-disciplinary team, forged over 20 successful pro bono partnerships and led the charity to secure a multi-million-pound investment to scale nationwide. Steel Warriors won a gold for Innovation at the Global Good awards.

Temple was a B2B mental wellbeing app that offered employees an engaging daily workout for the mind, lending from habit forming technologies and removing the stigma that so often deters workers from engaging with current services. Ben dreamt up the product’s unique vision and design and worked alongside his co-founder, former Microsoft veteran Nikolaz Foucaud and leading Cambridge neuroscientist, Dr Becky Inkster to bring an MVP to life. The Temple app was used in over five different countries, had 3X higher user engagement than industry standard and a 95% approval rating with users.

Ben consults startups on their growth and has also been developing campaign and branding ideas for some of the world’s most valuable brands including Amazon, Uber, Goldman Sachs, Ebay, General Electric, Sky, UBS, KFC, Red Bull, Tinder and the NHS.