Jill Geisler is Senior Faculty/Leadership and Management at The Poynter Institute. She teaches and consults in the field of leadership and change management in print, broadcast and online newsrooms, and facilitates strategic planning for organizations that want to improve. She's the author of "News Leadership at the Head of the Class: The Journalist's Guide to Teaching Leadership Skills and Values."

Geisler joined Poynter in 1998 after a 25-year career in broadcast journalism. She was the country’s first female news director of a major market network affiliate and built an award-winning newsroom culture at WITI in Milwaukee, her home town. Hers was a teaching newsroom, where coaching and collaboration were as important as ethics and enterprise.

She is the author of numerous articles on journalism leadership issues and developed Poynter’s weekly online “Leading Lines” column, serving thousands of subscribers. She has led programs for the Knight and Nieman Fellows, minority journalism organizations, the Radio-TV Digital News Association, Public Radio News Directors and the International Women’s Media Foundation. She teaches and consults in news organizations, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Oregonian, along with an array of television stations and station groups in the U.S. and abroad.

Geisler was the University of Wisconsin Journalism School’s 1972 “Outstanding Journalism Graduate,” and recipient of its 2004 Distinguished Service in Journalism award. She earned a master's degree in Leadership and Liberal Studies from Duquesne University in 2004.

Read her complete Poynter profile here.