Jill Geisler

Jill Geisler is the Bill Plante Chair in Leadership and Media Integrity at Loyola University Chicago. Geisler teaches and coaches newsroom leaders worldwide. She also serves as the Freedom Forum Institute Fellow in Women’s Leadership, heading its Power Shift Project, which helps media organizations build cultures free of harassment, discrimination and incivility. Prior to accepting the Loyola chair, she spent 16 years guiding the leadership and management programs of the Poynter Institute. Her first career was in broadcast journalism as a reporter and anchor, and one of the first female TV news directors in the United States at WITI-TV in Milwaukee. She is the author of the book “Work Happy: What Great Bosses Know” and writes a management column for the National Press Club Journalism Institute. Geisler has been inducted into multiple media halls of fame. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from UW–Madison and a masters in leadership studies from Duquesne University.