Kyle Behrend is an AI educator, consultant, and builder who helps nonprofits and mission-driven organisations put AI to work in ways that actually stick.
He is the founder of AI Impact Hub, an education-first platform built on a single idea: the people inside an organisation are best placed to find its AI solutions — they just need the foundational skills to get there. Its courses, weekly learning labs, and free resources support a community of more than 250 members. He also founded AI Mates, a deliberately small Australian community for people who are past the tutorials and ready to ship real things.
Kyle has collaborated with OpenAI to produce practical AI training for their global nonprofit community, and has delivered more than 200 workshops across four continents — including the Fundraising Institute Australia conference, UC Berkeley, and a social enterprise incubator in Berlin. His technical work spans AI agents, automations, voice agents, and MCP knowledge servers, much of it built for organisations that could never have afforded it the old way.
His path into AI was an unusual one. Kyle spent 13 and a half years at Edgar's Mission, a farmed animal sanctuary outside Melbourne, where he was the first paid staff member and built the organisation's entire digital infrastructure from scratch. Solving real problems for a stretched, mission-driven team still shapes how he teaches today.
Kyle writes The Leverage Point, a newsletter on AI and systems change for the nonprofit sector, and lives on a small rural property in New South Wales with his family and a revolving cast of rescue animals.