Veronica Rueckert is a Peabody Award-winning communications coach and specialist. She was the host of Wisconsin Public Radio‘s statewide news magazine Central Time and hosted the statewide call in program, The Veronica Rueckert Show. Earlier, she worked as a senior producer and contributor on the national program To the Best of Our Knowledge distributed by Public Radio International. Her essays have aired to a national audience via NPR and PRI. Currently, she works with clients at Veronica Rueckert Coaching and conducts media training and national media outreach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Veronica holds a degree in vocal performance and specializes in teaching people how to work with their speaking voice as an instrument of self-expression and uncover its innate potential, persuasive power, and inherent strength.