Deirdre Gobeille Snyder is a Lecturer in Management Communication at Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in business writing, persuasive communications, interpersonal influence, and management presentations.
Prior to joining Cornell, Dr. Snyder was an Associate Professor at Providence College, where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in organizational behavior, negotiations, leading and managing, decision making, and human resources. She has spent more than 10 years teaching negotiations and leadership courses in the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s top-rated online MBA program, MBA@UNC. Dr. Snyder has developed and delivered executive education workshops on power and politics, negotiations, giving and receiving feedback, change management, decision making and biases, interpersonal influence, and conflict management.
Dr. Snyder studies the impact of loneliness and belonging at work, team accountability, and employee retention. Her work has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resources Management, and the Journal of Business Ethics, and featured at the Academy of Management annual meetings.
Dr. Snyder holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a Master’s of International Business from the University of South Carolina, where she focused on marketing and Spanish. Before obtaining her Ph.D., she spent 15 years working in corporate communications for a variety of organizations, including Cengage Publishing and CNN Latin America. Dr. Snyder has lived and worked in Spain, Mexico, and Argentina, and speaks conversational Spanish.