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Susan Miller, Ph.D. is 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 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 lectures and writes about vocal power, vocal health, speech anxiety, effective
messaging, and communicating confidently. She has been a featured speaker for
associations such as Grammy Musicares, the Washington Performing Arts Society, the
Georgetown University Center for Professional Development, the Executive Women’s Forum,
the Junior League of Cincinnati, and the Levine School of Music. Dr. Miller taught two six-week
courses for the Smithsonian Associate Resident Program; Cultivating the Medium of the
Message; Your Voice and Communication Challenges in the Workplace. She has been
featured in the July 2005 New York Times article My Voice Has Got to Go and in the
December 205 Financial Times article Why Do Women Sound like Frogs. Her tips
regarding vocal health have appeared in magazines including Better Homes and Gardens,
Rock and Roll, the Washingtonian, Bottom Line Health, and the American
Way. Dr. Miller has been heard on the Diane Rehm Show, WTOP, Georgetown University
Forum and Derek McGinty Show. She has appeared on CBS, Channel 8 Healthline and
Montgomery Community Television and provided 30 second voice analyses to callers and
guests of the Diane Rehm show broadcast from the Newseum. Dr. Miller lectured
internationally at the Japan Society of Logopedics and Phoniatrics and has published in
professional journals. Her recent CD Vocal Vitality was featured in the February 3,
2004 Wall Street Journal article A Personal Trainer for Your Voice. Her first book
Be Heard the First Time: the Woman’s Guide to Powerful Speaking, featuring many of her
voice coaching techniques, was released in March of 2006. Her second book Don’t Let
Your Tongue Tie You Up will be released in Spring 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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