Phil Cooke

Author, Maximize Your Influence (Cooke Media Group, 2020)

TV and Film Producer, including "Let Hope Rise – the Hillsong Movie,” and feature documentary “The Insanity of God,” a Fathom event

Produced programming or lectured in 100 countries

Appeared on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, and profiled in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal

Lectured at Yale, Univ. of CA Berkeley, UCLA, and currently a visiting professor at ORU, Tulsa

Ph.D. Theology, Trinity College and Seminary

Married to Kathleen

(From www.PhilCooke.com)

An internationally known writer and speaker, Phil Cooke, Ph.D., has actually produced media programming in more than 60 countries around the world.  In the process, has been shot at, survived two military coups, fallen out of a helicopter, and in Africa, been threatened with prison. And during that time – through his company Cooke Pictures in Burbank, California – he’s helped some of the largest nonprofit organizations and leaders in the world use the media to tell their story in a changing, disrupted culture.

Phil was Executive Producer of “Let Hope Rise – the Hillsong Movie” released to theaters nationwide in 2016, and Producer of “The Insanity of God” a feature documentary that premiered nationwide as a Fathom Event. According to former CNN journalist Paula Zahn, Phil is rare – a working producer in Hollywood with a Ph.D. in Theology. He’s appeared on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, and his work has been profiled in the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

His book “Jolt!: Get the Jump on a World That’s Constantly Changing.” shares his secrets of making today’s culture of disruption and change work for you.  “One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do” helps you find the great purpose and calling for your life – and was named by the Washington Post as one of the Top Five Business Books for 2012.  His book, “Unique:  Telling Your Story in the Age of Brands and Social Media” is changing the way churches, ministries, and nonprofits engage today’s culture with their story.

His latest book co-written with Jonathan Bock is “The Way Back: How Christians Blew Our Credibility and How We Win it Back.” It takes a hard look at why today—particularly in the media—Christians are dismissed as irrelevant. Cooke and Bock show the Christian community how we can once again astonish our critics, and in doing so, completely transform ourselves, others, and the world for good.

He’s lectured at universities like Yale, University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, and is an adjunct professor at the King’s University in Los Angeles.  In addition to writing his blog at philcooke.com, he also blogs for The Huffington Post, and has been a contributor to Fast Company, Forbes.com,  Wired.com, and FoxNews.com.
Phil is on the Advisory Board for The Salvation Army and has been a long time member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and  The Producers Guild of America in Hollywood, and is a member of the Board of Directors for Image Journal.