Paula Rizzo

Paula Rizzo is an Emmy Award-winning television producer, bestselling author of Listful Thinking & Listful Living, media-training coach, speaker, LinkedIn Learning Instructor, host of the live-stream show Inside Scoop, and creator of the popular online training Media-Ready Author. She also writes a regular column for Writer’s Digest and is an on-air contributor to WPIX in New York City. She’s working on her first fiction book. Visit PaulaRizzo.com for more and follow her on LinkedIn or on Instagram.

She media trains fiction and nonfiction authors who are both traditionally and self-published. Harper Collins, Hachette Book Group, and Time Inc have all hired Paula to prepare their authors for book launches. She’s also media trained executives from The New York Times, Dow Jones, Fortune 500 companies and privately owned organizations.

She's the founder of the productivity site ListProducer.com and best-selling author of Listful Thinking: Using Lists to be More Productive, Highly Successful and Less Stressed, which has been translated into 15 languages and was featured as one of Oprah.com’s “Self Help Books That Actually Help.” She’s also the author of Listful Living: A List-Making Journey to a Less Stressed You.

Paula is also a LinkedIn Learning instructor with several courses about media skills, productivity and optimizing work from home remote offices. Paula has served on the advisory board of Book for Kids, is a member of The Authors Guild and Women’s Media Group, as well as a founding member of Chief in New York City.

Her work has been featured on TV and radio, in print, and around the web. She’s also a keynote speaker and has presented at Toyota, HOW Design Live, MA Conference for Women, The Authors Guild, New York Women in Communications, Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), Chief, American Society of Association Executives, The Author’s Guild, Writer’s Digest Conference and many others.

Before becoming a best-selling author and media trainer, Paula spent nearly 20 years as an Emmy Award-winning television producer. Paula served as a writer and producer at WPIX, WCBS and WLNY in New York City. She also spent more than a decade as the senior health producer for Fox News Channel where she produced health, wellness, and lifestyle content with a range of top experts, including JJ Virgin, Jillian Michaels, and Deepak Chopra.