Benjamin Wagner

Consultant , Author, Speaker, Filmmaker , Musician

Benjamin Wagner collects, develops and shares stories and strategies about transformation.

As a consultant and coach, author and speaker, filmmaker and musician, he leverages his thirty years of experience to help people and businesses transform themselves, and cultivate culture and community through storytelling.

From his half-decade helping launch Facebook’s Journalism Project globally, to his tenure transforming MTV News, to his award-winning PBS documentary, “Mister Rogers & Me,” Benjamin's focus is the essential nature of our shared human experience.

He has designed immersive, in-person and virtual live events around the globe, including Facebook’s F8, News Days and Executive Summits, and led on-location editorial initiatives for Elections, Oscar, Grammy and Video Music Awards.

Benjamin helped launch Facebook Media Central (the company’s first media partner center), Facebook Live and Paid Online Events.

He graduated with dual degrees in Journalism and Creative Writing from Syracuse University, and was a Fellow of the Sulzberger Leadership Program at Columbia University.