Bio Ben Ivey
Ben Ivey is an international speaker, business coach and serial entrepreneur, He is the founder of Entrepreneur Lifestyle, where he helps businesses simplify LinkedIn lead generation, streamline systems, and leverage AI to drive sustainable growth.
Known for his humour and dynamic style, Ben is a global speaker who delivers powerful, engaging presentations that spark real change. He has spoken at over 260 events internationally, and has completed a TED talk in Mandarin Chinese.
Over the past decade, Ben and his team have helped 450+ businesses, including Fortune 500 companies like Coca-Cola, HSBC, and Maersk, to build sustainable systems, boost revenue, and operate more efficiently.
Ben's Story
Ben Ivey’s entrepreneurial journey began early. At 13, he started a business selling chocolate at school, which despite his best intentions was closed down due to competition with the school tuck shop. After various other entrepreneurial ventures Ben hit the ground running during his time at university with a new venture selling sports bags across the UK.
Alongside his business, Ben had always wanted to inspire those around him. After giving a series of talks across schools in the UK he published his first book at age 21, helping students with memory techniques and inspiration to “dominate” their exams.
His entrepreneurial spirit led him to the Start-Up Bus competition in Europe, where he came 3rd, involving hundreds of entrepreneurs from seven countries. This experience paved the way for him to build an app in Silicon Valley with an international team. However it was here that his journey took a different path.
Despite owning his own business and working with his growing team, he was feeling overwhelmed, lost and unfulfilled. This in parallel with losing his father to suicide led him to feel like his life was lacking purpose and meaning. Ben began on a destructive path of self-sabotage, burn out and damaging relationships. After this downward spiral, Ben became obsessed with the question: Is it possible to build a successful business whilst living a great lifestyle simultaneously?
Learning from mentors like Allan Kleynhans, and world-renown speakers such as Tony Robbins, Chloe Madanes, T Harv Eker, Andy Harrington and more. Ben travelled around the world attending events to figure out how to be fulfilled whilst running a successful business. He became a certified Robbins Madanes Strategic Intervention Coach, NLP Trainer and Lead Facilitator for Zero Suicide Systems Nu- Rekall. Using these skills, as well as many other tools, he overcame his self-sabotage in business and started to inspire thousands of entrepreneurs around the globe to do the same.
As demand grew for his coaching and speaking skills, Ben created the Entrepreneur Lifestyle Certification Program, training students to become coaches and inspirational speakers. He expanded his impact globally, even running simultaneous events in the UK and China.
It was during this period from 2014-2019 that Ben helped successful entrepreneurs to live the lifestyle they thought they would have when they started their business, whilst boosting business success. As his skills grew he also started to work with senior leadership teams of large companies such as Maersk, HSBC and Coca Cola.
Now a bilingual speaker Ben started to coach in Chinese and decided he wanted his first ever talk in Chinese to be on a TED stage. It was in April 2019 that he had this opportunity. His purpose was to inspire people in China in their local language and at the same time show them how you can do anything you set your mind to. (He learnt the entire speech off by heart before the event!)
However when COVID-19 struck this momentum hit a halt as Ben could no longer fly around the world and inspire audiences. His entire business based around speaking on stage and coaching online was no longer sustainable. He had to revamp his entire business online and invested £90k+ in business coaching, online marketing courses and lead generation until throughout his learning, he found a system that worked consistently.
Since then his company Entrepreneur Lifestyle has helped service based business owners, consultants and coaches to build and scale 6 figure businesses online.
Specialising in helping these business owners scale their business sustainably primarily using Linkedin.
To aid these entrepreneurs further, he developed a done for you Linkedin Ads: Snap Ads, to further add value to his clients who didn’t have the time to do this themselves.
Alongside the new direction of his company Ben has also been actively involved in a family-run commercial real estate business since 2022. His aim throughout has been to implement automation, systemisation, and scaling strategies to improve its operations for sustainable business growth.
Outside of his business ventures Ben enjoys taking on challenges in all aspects of his life, whether it is a 72 hour water fast, a triathlon, tough mudder, spartan warrior race or the Wim Hoff iceman training. Most recently in 2024 he has taken on the challenge of doing a marathon and improving his skills as an amateur tennis player.
He also enjoys investing in the stock market, cryptocurrency and mentoring young entrepreneurs looking for guidance at the next stages of their entrepreneurial journey. He is happily married to Evelyn after a 4.5 year long distance relationship and is currently based south of London in Kenley. He still loves travelling around the world, and as he likes to say: we work hard to enjoy life so we might as well enjoy it!
As his story carries on unfolding, he never loses sight of his mission to inspire 10 million business owners around the world to live their ideal entrepreneur lifestyle whilst boosting business growth.
