Most leadership training teaches better tactics. We help you discover your ultimate purpose.
Purpose Maker is a wisdom and leadership development firm for high-performing entrepreneurs, athletes, business owners, and leaders who have mastered the how — and are now ready to deepen their why.
When leadership identity & purpose are crystal clear, everything else — your decisions, your culture, your energy, your family — falls into alignment.
That's what we build here.
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There's no shortage of leadership training. So why does the emptiness come back?
Most programs are built around a simple assumption: if a leader learns better frameworks, develops stronger skills, and builds better habits — everything else follows.
And those things matter. We're not dismissing them.
But there's a layer beneath all of it that most training never touches. The layer is where identity & purpose lives. Where calling lives. Where the answer to "why does any of this matter?" lives.
When that layer goes unaddressed, the frameworks eventually hollow out. The skills get applied without conviction. The habits fade when life gets hard. And the leader — who has done everything right on paper — finds themselves looking for more.
Purpose Maker was created exactly to address these issues.
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The Team
Coach MJ
Dr. MJ Wegmann (affectionately known as Coach MJ or Brother Michael) is the founder of Purpose Maker Leadership.
Born from the fire of a Veterans crisis.
After a profound, life-altering realization while leading a Veterans suicide-prevention initiative, Dr. MJ Wegmann didn't set out to build a leadership company. He set out to stop warriors from dying.
While leading a Veterans suicide-prevention initiative, his program reached over 6,000 Veterans on the brink in its very first year. And in that work, he discovered something that changed everything: The same crushing absence of purpose that quietly destroys a warrior after service is already eroding the lives of the most "successful" leaders in boardrooms, corner offices, locker rooms, and pulpits across the country.
That realization forged an unbreakable conviction — and Purpose Maker was born from it.
We teach the deep leadership and culture principles through our proprietary T.I.P. Method and L.I.F.E. Principles framework.
Dr. Wegmann is also the President of Social Responsibility Inc 501c3.
Social Responsibility Inc. is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving quality of life within society through education and research. Our development and design team works to strategically implement new interventions that help people overcome significant social challenges.
Coach Brian
Brian Wagner, simply put, is a Futurist.
Brian is the Visionary & Developer of Purpose Maker, a Certified Purpose Maker Leadership Executive Coach and also a Certified John Maxwell Leadership Coach.
He is a seasoned executive and strategic leader with over 40 years of experience driving innovation, value chain optimization, and transformative growth with Fortune 500 companies.
As co-founder and principal of PTIS LLC, he has advised over 300 Fortune 500 and Forbes 1000 companies, delivering actionable strategies in sustainability, digital transformation, and market disruption. His foresight programs, including the “Future of Packaging” (2004–Present), have shaped board-level decisions across CPG, manufacturing, and retail sectors.
In 2008 he was inducted into the Michigan State University School of Packaging Hall-of-Fame. An inventor with patented packaging technologies and recipient of prestigious awards like the Riester-Davis-Brody Lifetime Achievement Award, Brian is recognized as a thought leader in packaging and strategic planning.
Brian’s governance expertise spans multiple boards, including roles with Michigan State University, the City of Petoskey, and nonprofit organizations focused on education, arts, and philanthropy. He is also past Executive in Residence at the WP Carey Business School at Arizona State University, advisor to Cal Poly State University Packaging program, and many other industry Boards.
Coach Brian teaches leaders how to become a Legacy Purpose Maker.
Coach Ben
Founder of Redi-Rock International, Author
Ben is Lead Strategist at Purpose Maker and is the founder of Redi-Rock International, a licensor of retaining wall forming systems and business opportunities with customers around the world.
The business saw early success in Northern Michigan, and Ben had the vision to take the company globally. Setting up manufacturers first in North America, Redi-Rock now has over 120 manufacturers in 22 countries on 6 continents.
Ben built one of the largest privately held companies in America and an incredible team of engineers, sales professionals, marketing executives, and operations staff. In 2015, Ben transitioned out of the day-to-day operations at Redi-Rock and has been pursuing his purpose of helping others pursue their passions and achieve their goals through consulting work with business people, authors, and ministries.
Ben also continues to hold an active role as the Chairman of the Board for Redi-Rock, as well as sitting on the boards for multiple other companies. Redi-Rock has been recognized with multiple awards – including Michigan Celebrates Small Business’ “50 Companies to Watch” in 2018 and “Strategically Focused Award” in 2020, and the President’s E Award for Exports awarded by President Trump in 2021.
Ben was also instrumental in building multiple businesses alongside his large extended family – including Manthei Veneer, Manthei Construction, Sky Valley Resorts, and Manthei Capital. He holds a bachelors degree in Psychology from Spring Arbor University.
Ben cares most about improving culture and giving back. Ben is the author of In His Majesty's Service; From Success to Significance. He currently spends his time mentoring others and serving on multiple ministry boards including TEF in China. He also spent 15 years on Cru’s Military Ministry Advisory Board.
