Phill Keene

Coaching Culture Advocate | Building Sales Teams that Win and Stay | Soon-To-Be YouTuber | Public Speaker to Bring Energy to Your Team

📍 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 3 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 United States
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Board Member
Apr 2019
An engagement platform and fundraising tool to actively engage people and improve the lives of those in our communities. Our platform includes - Online Campaign Registry: Finding the right people to support your cause doesn’t have to give you a headache. Whether you need to fund a new project, spread awareness for your noble cause, or target individuals who care, Donaide can make it as easy as setting up a wedding registry; you express your need and donors give. Piece of cake. Volunteer Engagement: The volunteer burnout rate is skyrocketing. Why? Most don’t feel useful or appreciated. Effective communication is essential to foster genuine, lasting relationships Donaide helps you connect with volunteers, have access to volunteer profiles to record their preferences and interests, and enables you to easily communicate with them. All for easy and insightful volunteer management. Donor Engagement: The key to your supporters? Communicate, engage, nurture. Go beyond transactional fundraising and build lasting, sustainable, and real relationships with your donors. Our matching algorithm connects you to donors who actually care about your cause and are ready to make a real impact. Not only will we help you connect to the right people, but we help you engage them for the long haul, transforming them from one-time supporters to lifetime advocates. Matching Algorithm: No more endless researching. Our matching algorithm helps donors immediately connect to causes they care about. The best part for you? You only get people who truly care about your mission and are ready to make an impact. There’s absolutely no work on your end, you just get the best of the best.
early stageFundraising
Board Member (Indianapolis Chapter)
2015
Top revenue leaders rely on Emblaze as their revenue insights community. Lead with certainty by leveraging three forms of exclusive insights: Peer Insights - Engage with like-minded peers via in-person and online events, and in forum cohorts. Research Insights - Access the latest research and evidence-based findings and recommendations for how to improve sales performance. Buyer Insights - Get a one-of-a-kind, 90-day lookback at your most recent wins/losses/no decisions to identify where your teams may be struggling with specific sales performance and buyer experiences.
Family Owner | Board Member
Oct 2011
Since 2010, Bier Brewery is committed to the highest quality and best tasting bier in Indianapolis. Our mantra is, “Quality, quality, quality.” From unique water profiles as a base for each beer, to balance and subtlety in all styles – we simply love making great beer.
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Experience · 4 entries
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2019
Board Member
Apr 2019
An engagement platform and fundraising tool to actively engage people and improve the lives of those in our communities. Our platform includes - Online Campaign Registry: Finding the right people to support your cause doesn’t have to give you a headache. Whether you need to fund a new project, spread awareness for your noble cause, or target individuals who care, Donaide can make it as easy as setting up a wedding registry; you express your need and donors give. Piece of cake. Volunteer Engagement: The volunteer burnout rate is skyrocketing. Why? Most don’t feel useful or appreciated. Effective communication is essential to foster genuine, lasting relationships Donaide helps you connect with volunteers, have access to volunteer profiles to record their preferences and interests, and enables you to easily communicate with them. All for easy and insightful volunteer management. Donor Engagement: The key to your supporters? Communicate, engage, nurture. Go beyond transactional fundraising and build lasting, sustainable, and real relationships with your donors. Our matching algorithm connects you to donors who actually care about your cause and are ready to make a real impact. Not only will we help you connect to the right people, but we help you engage them for the long haul, transforming them from one-time supporters to lifetime advocates. Matching Algorithm: No more endless researching. Our matching algorithm helps donors immediately connect to causes they care about. The best part for you? You only get people who truly care about your mission and are ready to make an impact. There’s absolutely no work on your end, you just get the best of the best.
early stageFundraising
2017
Founder | YouTuber, Executive & GTM Advisor, AI Strategist
Jan 2017
We started this because the cycle was breaking people. Hire. Onboard. Inspect. Replace. Repeat. We watched that cycle chew through good sellers, good managers, and good companies, and we got tired of pretending it was normal. So we built something to break it. This isnt one bad company. Its an epidemic. Quota attainment sat at 43.83% last quarter. Sellers spend 60% of their time on everything except selling. 57% of teams say their cycles are getting longer, not shorter. Sales turnover runs at 35% against 13% for the rest of the workforce. Those arent outliers. Thats the system working exactly as broken as it was built. We watched it happen from the inside. A rep gets hired into a role with no plan, thrown a deck instead of a system, judged on numbers nobody explained how to hit, and quietly replaced when the quarter goes bad. Then the company starts over and calls it a new hire, not a repeat of the same mistake. We built The Sales Builder to stop that repeat. This is for the seller doing everything right and still watching the number miss. This is for the sales leader out of patience for one more platform, one more reorg, one more quarter of doing more with less. This is for the fractional executive running the whole thing alone, no bench, no one to call at 9pm when the deal falls apart. We believe the cycle is a choice, not a law of nature. We believe a good seller who fails is usually a leadership failure wearing a reps name tag. We believe nobody leads well alone. We believe proof beats polish. The cycle doesnt break itself. Somebody has to build the system that replaces it. Thats what were doing. If your team is stuck in it, lets talk.
2015
Board Member (Indianapolis Chapter)
2015
Top revenue leaders rely on Emblaze as their revenue insights community. Lead with certainty by leveraging three forms of exclusive insights: Peer Insights - Engage with like-minded peers via in-person and online events, and in forum cohorts. Research Insights - Access the latest research and evidence-based findings and recommendations for how to improve sales performance. Buyer Insights - Get a one-of-a-kind, 90-day lookback at your most recent wins/losses/no decisions to identify where your teams may be struggling with specific sales performance and buyer experiences.
2011
Family Owner | Board Member
Oct 2011
Since 2010, Bier Brewery is committed to the highest quality and best tasting bier in Indianapolis. Our mantra is, “Quality, quality, quality.” From unique water profiles as a base for each beer, to balance and subtlety in all styles – we simply love making great beer.
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