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Dr. Benjamin Garner
Creator of Career Launch, marketing professor, and PBS documentary filmmaker Dr. Benjamin Garner (Ph.D., University of Kansas) is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Director of the Sales Program at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas. He created Career Launch by The Softskill Professor, a 12-video, documentary-style career readiness curriculum that CTE and Work-Based Learning programs in Illinois and Georgia use to teach high school students the soft skills and professionalism employers look for. [See Career Launch →] Dr. Garner is also an independent documentary filmmaker whose four films have been broadcast on PBS. Two were distributed nationally through NETA and have each aired in 30 or more states. His films explore the outdoors, food and agriculture, and travel and tourism, and have screened at festivals including the Kansas City FilmFest and the Tallgrass Film Festival. His research, published in more than 25 peer-reviewed journal articles in outlets such as the Journal of Business Research, Journal of Consumer Marketing, and Journal of Marketing Education, examines how people buy, sell, and connect around local food, tourism, and brands. At UCA, he received the College of Business Exemplary Boundary Spanner Award in 2024 and 2026, and the Engaged Teaching Award in 2025. What ties it all together is making ideas happen and getting them seen. His latest film, Arkansas Wild, has aired 358 times on PBS stations across 30 states, backed by a PR campaign in which Dr. Garner personally pitched more than 250 media outlets. Explore his work
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