Jill Schiefelbein

Dr. Jill Schiefelbein helps businesses humanize automation.

Thriving at the intersections of communication, education, and technology, Dr. Jill is an international keynote speaker, trainer, and consultant working with companies from small brick-and-mortar storefronts to Fortune 500 organizations.

University faculty-turned-entrepreneur, she’s an award-winning business owner, author, and recovering academic. She taught business communication at Arizona State University for 11 years, analyzed terrorist documents to provide counter-terrorism messaging strategies to the military, and was a pioneer in the digital education space. 

Now, Dr. Jill is a leading researcher and consultant in the space of synthetic media, particularly around using hyper-realistic avatars to communicate. She serves as an adjunct professor in the doctoral program at the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida, teaching business analytics, generative AI strategy, and examining the future of business communication.

She's the Chief Experience Officer and Partner at Render, a start-up specializing in creating digital likeness solutions and providing integrated generative AI services. And the host of the Humanize Automation podcast.

The author of four books, her latest, Effective Business Communication For Dummies, was released through Wiley in fall 2024.