Mike is a strategist, designer, technologist, storyteller, and entrepreneur who has spent his career building things, brands and products, teams and companies. He co-founded KM more than 15 years ago around a simple idea: bring good people and different disciplines together to solve meaningful problems and create real value.
His work sits at the intersection of design, technology, and business. He has started and grown companies, advised leaders and organizations, and worked hands-on across brand, software, film, emerging technology, and growth—often all in the same day. It’s given him a perspective that connects what gets made with how organizations lead, operate, grow, and adapt.
Around KM, his role is equal parts creative instigator, strategist, problem solver, mentor, and occasional mad scientist. He still likes being close to the work—whether working through a business problem, shaping an idea with a client, prototyping with AI, or sitting alongside the team figuring out how to make something better.
Mike cares deeply about helping people grow, building things that matter, and exploring where technology is taking us—without losing sight of the people it should ultimately serve.
When he’s not at KM, you’ll likely find him with his family, working on something at the farm, chasing another idea, or somewhere down a late-night research and writing rabbit hole.
Beyond KM
Mike’s work extends across a small group of organizations exploring how design, technology, media, and business shape what comes next.
In early 2026, Michael Keene succeeded Dave Gilmore, leading work around the future of design, leadership, business, technology, and the built environment.
Co-Founder
A media and ventures studio exploring consequential ideas through film, media, technology, and ventures.
What Mike Works On
The common thread is helping organizations understand what should exist next… and then helping make it real.
Design
Brand strategy, identity, product design, UI/UX, digital experiences, and creative direction.
Technology
Software, digital products, AI, automation, intelligent systems, and emerging technology.
Business
Strategy, growth, leadership, organizational change, entrepreneurship, and venture building.
Story
Film, documentary, media, editorial, narrative, and communicating ideas that matter.
Selected Work
A few projects and ventures that reflect the range of Mike’s work across design, technology, business, media, and the built environment.
Films + Media
Through KM and Inverted, Mike develops films and conversations exploring technology, creativity, industry, and the ways technological change reshapes human life.
Long-form conversations with people shaping technology, culture, design, and the future, including an ongoing exploration of the history, present, and future of the internet and AI.
Thinking
Mike writes and speaks about the changing relationship between design, technology, business, and human creativity, particularly how AI and emerging technologies are changing what it means to create, lead, and build.
Read Michael’s work at DesignIntelligence →
Recognition
Work by Mike and the KM team has been recognized by Awwwards, the Telly Awards, W3 Awards, Communication Arts, and other design and creative organizations, with projects and organizations featured by ABC World News, CNN, Forbes, and others.
