International broadcast and podcast trainer, consultant and talent coach Valerie Geller works throughout the world, as a speaker, trainer and consultant. Her coaching practice focus is on news, talk, information, and personality programming, helping to grow audiences.

Geller’s Powerful Radio books teach storytelling and communicator techniques to podcasters, professional broadcasters, students and communicators in sixty countries. Her books have been translated into 9 languages.

GELLER’S work, originally developed for broadcasters, expanded to documentary films and podcasts, including podcast award winners for Audible.com, Morning Brew Daily, and Conde’ Nast Digital. You can see some of the shows she’s worked with at http://www.creatingpowerfulpodcasts.com/clients

Geller’s international roster of both commercial and public media includes broadcast and media organizations at more than 500 stations in forty three countries.Her client list includes the BBC, the CBC Canada, ABC in Australia, NPR, Bloomberg, CBS, Univision and CNN. She’s worked training communicators and teaching the Powerful Communicator methods in Europe, Russia, Canada, Mexico, South America, the Middle East, Singapore, Malaysia, Africa and the USA.
After a radio career that included programming WABC in New York, plus various management, news, and on-air positions at KOA, Denver, WPLP,St. Petersburg, KIOI, San Francisco, KTAR, Phoenix and KFI in Los Angeles, she formed training and consulting company, Geller Media International.

As a conference keynoter, moderator and workshop and seminar leader, Geller has presented at over 200 national and international and state broadcast association conferences. She is a regular lecturer at colleges, including the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and New York University.

Geller has served on a number of boards, including for the Associated Press, The Radio/TV News Directors Association, The National Association of Broadcasters, International Radio Awards NY Festivals and for the Executive Board of Directors for Mentoring Women in Radio. In 2010 she was honored with the prestigious Rockwell Lifetime Achievement Award for Broadcasting and for the past 17 years Radio Ink Magazine has named her on their list of the ”25 Most Influential Women in Radio.” She is also a contributor to several books about podcasting, including Viral Podcasting and Lets Talk Podcasting, and several additional (Routledge) text books for the audio media industry.

Beyond Powerful Radio - An Audio Communicator’s Guide to the Digital World from Routledge Press is Geller’s fifth book.