Working with internationals and organizations on activation, direction, participation, and the hidden layers behind stuckness.
About Ben Brink
Building around transition, community, futures, and hidden systems.
I am the founder of Flux Forward and the host of Bennu Community. Not Yet is where I keep the wider thinking behind the work: identity, belonging, systems, future-facing work, and the space between ideas and action.
Story
From philosophy and media to community, business, and future-facing work.
My path has not been linear. I started in philosophy and journalism, moved into business development and growth, spent years building communities and media projects, and later rebuilt parts of my own life after moving countries.
That is why transition is not an abstract topic for me. It is personal, professional, and practical. I care about the moments when people have capacity, experience, and ambition, but the system around them cannot fully read what they bring.
Flux Forward grew from that question. Bennu helped me listen to many nonlinear journeys. Not Yet gives me a place to think in public before the ideas become too fixed.
Current work
What I am building now.
Three active threads behind the work.
Flux Forward
International talent activation in the Netherlands.
Helping internationals and organizations close the gap between potential and participation.
Bennu Community Nonlinear journeys and transformative conversations.A podcast and media space with 40+ conversations on migration, identity, work, and change.
Not Yet Journal The thinking layer behind the work.Notes, frameworks, and reflections while the work is still becoming.
Selected signals
A few numbers behind the work.
Not everything important can be counted. But some signals help show the scale behind the thinking.
100+internationals directly supported through sessions, workshops, and practical programs.
300+participants engaged through online and in-person events.
40+Bennu conversations published with founders, professionals, and internationals.
20,000+people reached through 20to30 events and community work over the years.
Selected experience
Roles that shaped the work.
Hosting conversations about moving countries, career change, identity, and nonlinear journeys.
Designed a community-building framework for a deep tech and medical sciences incubator in the northern Netherlands.
Founded and led a community project for people in their twenties, with 220+ in-person events and 100+ online events.
Worked across growth, marketing, business development, journalism, media, research, and community-building roles in Iran, Malaysia, Norway, and the Netherlands.
Education and programs
Learning threads.
Master, International CommunicationHanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen
Business Development ProgramVentureLab North
Futures Literacy Intensive ProgramFLIP 2024
McKinsey Forward ProgramProfessional development program
BA PhilosophyUniversity of Tehran
MBA Program, MarketingUniversity of Tehran
Collaborate
Bring me in when the conversation needs both care and structure.
I work best where transition, systems, identity, and practical next steps meet.
TalksInternational talent activation, identity capital, hidden systems, future of work.
WorkshopsNavigation, translation, visibility, stability, practical activation.
PanelsMigration, belonging, community building, future of work conversations.
Thinking partnerFor founders, teams, and communities trying to turn complex transitions into clear next steps.