About Susan Miller

Susan Miller is the founder of Voicetrainer, LLC, a voice coaching and communication consulting business serving clients in the Washington DC area, nationally and internationally. As a vocal coach, she specializes in the refinement of the speaking voice, elimination of public speaking anxiety, effective communication, and treatment of the injured voice user and has over twenty-six years of experience with professional and amateur speakers, radio and news broadcasters, non-native speakers, and singers. Dr. Miller designs and implements programs to enhance clients’ voice quality, diction, projection, communication, and presentation needs. She works with corporate, government, association and diplomatic clients.

Dr. Miller writes and speaks about vocal power, vocal health, and communicating with impact. She is a featured speaker for national and international organizations such as the Smithsonian Institution and the Japan Society of Logopedics and Phoniatrics. She has also appeared on NBC, CBS, NPR and other national radio and television programs. Dr. Miller analyzed the voices of the 2008 presidential candidates in the recent Wall Street Journal article Talk is Cheap in Politics, But a Deep Voice Helps. She was also featured in the New York Times article My Voice Has Got to Go in July 2005 and in the Financial Times Why Do Women Sound Like Frogs in December 2005. Her tips regarding vocal health have appeared in magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens, Rock and Roll, the Washingtonian, Bottom Line Health, and the American Way. Her CD Vocal Vitality was featured in the Wall Street Journal article A Personal Trainer for Your Voice in February 2004. Her book Be Heard the First Time: the Women's Guide to Powerful Speaking was released in March of 2006. Her next book, The Voice of Success will be released in September of 2008.

Dr. Miller is a clinical consultant and an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at the Georgetown University Hospital and a clinical associate for The George Washington University Voice Treatment Center. Dr. Miller is a scientific fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngology, a certified speech-language pathologist and a Board Recognized Fluency Specialist. She is a member of the Women of Washington, the Voice and Speech Trainer’s Association, the Career Women’s Golf Association and an affiliate member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

Dr. Miller received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Communication Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. She holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech Hearing and Language Association. Dr. Miller has directed speech and hearing clinics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC.

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