Valerie Geller

Who is Valerie Geller?

Valerie Geller is an International Broadcast Consultant, Author, public speaker, communications coach and trainer working throughout the world to help broadcasters build their audiences. In 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. 2010, 2011 and 2012 the trade magazine Radio Ink listed her as one of the "50 Most Influential Women in Radio". In 2011 Radio Ink named her among the top broadcast consultants in the USA. In 2010, Geller was named as recipient of the Conclave's highest honor: The Rockwell Award for lifetime achievement in radio.

Geller accepts 2010 Rockwell Broadcasting Award on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxu4fPXiTdA

Valerie Geller works with broadcast outlets that emphasize news and talk. She also wrote a weekly column for www.radio-info.com, "News/Talk Edge." She has guest lectured at various universities and colleges on broadcasting and news including the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York City. and the film school at New York University and the Swedish Royal Technical Institute in Stockholm.

Geller has authored several books on radio broadcasting and communications for news/talk information and personality broadcasters for radio, TV and the internet, including Creating Powerful Radio – A Communicator's Handbook M Street Publications, 1994; The Powerful Radio Workbook – The Prep, Performance & Post Production Planning ISBN 0-9647930-5-9; and Creating Powerful Radio-Getting, Keeping & Growing Audiences from Focal Press 2007. There is also an instructor manual by Melissa McConnell Wilson and Linwood Hagin for Creating Powerful Radio. Her fourth book: Beyond Powerful Radio – A Communicator's Guide to the Internet Age from Focal Press was published in April 2011.