Create Impact.
Catalyze Change.
Cultivate Resilience.

About

Benjamin Wagner helps people and organizations bridge the gap between where they are and where they want to be.

By identifying strategic opportunities, fostering conditions for transformative change, collaborating on that change, and unlocking individual and collective potential, Benjamin helps people chart a course toward measurable outcomes and exponential impact.

From his half-decade helping launch Facebook’s Journalism Project globally, tenure helping transform MTV News, and Media Transformation Challenge Fellowship to his award-winning PBS documentary, Mister Rogers & Me, and forthcoming Friends & Neighbors documentary, Benjamin's work centers on the fundamental nature of our shared human experience.

Across his strategic consultancy, leadership development, and creative work, he explores how we navigate adversity, foster connection, find meaning, cultivate resilience, and drive transformation.

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Consultant

Benjamin consults, coaches, and advises organizations, teams, and individuals.

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Speaker

Benjamin delivers engaging, insightful, and impactful presentations and workshops.

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Testimonials

"We found Benjamin’s insights incredibly beneficial. His engaging and knowledgeable approach made this workshop an invaluable experience."

- Chambrel, Philadelphia

"Working with Benjamin provided practical, valuable, and actionable communications insights applicable to the industry keynote we were prepping, the company more broadly, as well as my day-to-day engagements."

- John, San Diego

"Benjamin's message was spot on and delivery was stellar!"

- Jen, Wilmington

"Benjamin is a person of vision, and is not afraid of the hard work it takes to get things done.  He’s been a great partner."

- Charlie, Portland

“Benjamin embraced and expanded on my vision, using his deep experience and expertise to accelerate and amplify our launch and growth.”

- Elizabeth, Wilmington

"Benjamin leveraged his experience and expertise to help our team gain comfort and confidence with the difficult realities of their work, and suggested practical and tangible steps towards success."

- Áine, Dublin

"Benjamin's keynote address was a highlight of our annual leadership conference. He provided attendees [tools] they could apply to their daily life immediately."

- Charlie, Wilmington

"In someone else's hands, a topic like workplace wellness might come across as academic or mystical. But Benjamin shares the fundamentals of human behavior in an authentic, approachable, and actionable way."

- Lindsay, Wilmington

"Benjamin’s workshop provided the kind of thoughtful and lightweight nudge our team needs periodically to keep grounded, aligned, and productive."

- John, Wilmington

"Benjamin's wisdom comes from vulnerability and lived experienced, and is wrapped in humor and compassion.

- Zach, Newark

“Benjamin’s distinctively empathetic understanding of human nature was the ingredient that helped our audience to understand the past as more than trivia and the present as more than a battleground.” 

– Brenton, Connecticut

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