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Ben Feller: Speaker Reel
Ben Feller
Former Chief White House Correspondent for the AP, Leading Adviser to Corporate America
- Speaker and moderator lauded as “thoughtful, entertaining, enthralling”
- Riveting White House stories from the front row to history
- Trusted adviser to companies on how to engage audiences – and win
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Ben Feller is a speaker and moderator who has covered two U.S. presidents and now counsels some of the world’s leading companies, making him a distinctive choice for any event. Honored as a “master of deadline reporting” during his distinguished White House reporting career, Feller is a strategic adviser whose appeal on stage is rooted in the expertise he brings to his work: an ability to engage any audience with stories, humor, and loads of actionable advice.
Feller’s style is informed by an award-winning journalism career, one in which he drew details out of presidents and thousands of other people around the world. He served as the Chief White House Correspondent for The Associated Press, the largest news organization in the world. For more than six years, Feller covered Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, traveling aboard Air Force One and often driving the national debate with the questions he asked.
An event organizer who booked Feller said: “We always come away feeling energized, informed and entertained by a conversation he leads. And that is on top of my appreciation of his work on the toughest beat in journalism. Put simply, he's an extraordinary talent.” Said another: “He kept our audience riveted. His resume speaks for itself, but he was more than that to us. He was a true partner.”
Feller’s work has shaped the mindset and the narratives of companies, universities, foundations, and industries. He is a partner at maslansky + partners, the communications firm that created Language Strategy – the discipline of finding exactly the right language to ensure audiences will listen, care, and act. He brings a dual perspective of business and journalism, having challenged presidents and thrived in the most demanding media environment in America.
Feller is also the author of the children’s book “Big Problems, Little Problems,” a tale of conquering frustration no matter what the problem. It is built on Feller’s love of parenting, his career in problem-solving, and his pride in watching his son Sam grow. In the book, a dad teaches his son to solve the daily challenges of life – and, in turn, learns the surprising ways in which a child can remind a grown-up what's important, too. Reviewers said: “This book should be in every home with little ones,” and “I could not have found a more relatable book if I tried.”
Feller’s career began in 1993 as a reporter for the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pa. He also wrote for the News & Record in Greensboro, NC. and The Tampa Tribune in Tampa, Fla. Feller served as the National Education Writer for The Associated Press before moving onto the White House beat.
During his time covering national politics, Feller won the Gerald R. Ford Prize for being a “master of deadline reporting and an astute analyst of the meaning of President Obama’s initiatives.” The same year, he won The Merriman Smith Award for reporting on soldiers returning from war in caskets, with coverage “whose style had echoes of Edward R. Murrow in its taut, gripping writing.”
Feller then pivoted to business and joined Mercury, a global strategy firm, before joining maslansky + partners in 2022. A native of State College, Pa., Feller graduated with distinction from Penn State in 1992. He lives in New York City.
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Ben Feller: Associated Press Interview with Obama
Ben Feller: New Children's Book
HOW TO MAKE ANY AUDIENCE CARE
The ability to inspire people to care about your story begins with a simple premise: It’s not what you say that matters, it’s what they hear. Ben Feller has made a career of connecting with audiences from the briefing room to the board room to the living room. Come for communications tips to succeed in business and life, infused with inside-the-West-Wing stories you will not want to miss.
A MODERATOR FOR ANY MISSION
You have a packed conference, but how can you be sure your attendees will be inspired? With rigorous preparation and a keen sense of how to read the room, Ben Feller is the distinctive choice to moderate any discussion. Get everyone engaged, led by a communicator who has conducted thousands of interviews and has a knack for knowing what will keep audiences enthralled.
ESG AND DEI: HOW TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE
Partisan backlash over Environmental, Social and Governance work (ESG) has caused a reckoning, with companies left with a difficult choice: Back away, sit still, or move forward? In a revealing session, learn how reframing ESG actions as “Responsible Business” can shrink the backlash – and how companies can smartly discuss diversity, too, amid the crackdown on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
FRONT SEAT, FIRST QUESTION: A WHITE HOUSE PERSPECTIVE
Before Trump and Biden, there was Obama and Bush – and an entirely different White House world. The perspective from that period offers an illuminating context to the decisions and the drama unfolding today. As the former chief White House Correspondent for the Associated Press, Ben Feller went everywhere Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama did for six years – on Air Force One, in the Oval Office, around the world. Come hear about the front seat to history.
PARENTAL PROBLEM-SOLVING: HOW TO MAKE THOSE BIG PROBLEMS LITTLE
Ben Feller is an award-winning writer who covered two presidents and now helps people and organizations tell their own stories. Ben’s most important title – Sam Feller’s dad – is the one that drove him to write Big Problems, Little Problems, a father-son tale about conquering life’s frustrations together. The book opens up an important discussion about parenting because it is written from the view of a dad, a perspective that can inform any event focused on modern-day parenting.
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