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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