Deirdre Gobeille Snyder

Biography

Deirdre Gobeille Snyder is an award winning assistant teaching professor at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, an organizational psychologist and an expert in how people use communication to build credibility, exercise influence and move work forward. She teaches persuasive communication, interpersonal influence, business writing and management presentations to undergraduate and graduate students.

She also designs and delivers executive education programs on interpersonal influence, status, power and politics, negotiations, decision making, feedback and conflict management.

Snyder’s research interests include interpersonal influence at work — especially power, status, accountability and belonging — as well as how human communication is adapting in an AI driven workplace. Her research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management and the Journal of Business Ethics, and featured at the Academy of Management’s annual meetings.

Before earning her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Snyder spent 15 years in corporate communications, including roles at Cengage Publishing and CNN Latin America. She also holds a master’s degree in international business from the University of South Carolina and has lived and worked in Spain, Mexico and Argentina.

Education

PhD Kenan-Flagler Business School, University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, 2014
MS Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 1996
BS SUNY Geneseo, 1993

Research

• Snyder, Deirdre; Stewart, Virginia; Shea, Catherine. "Hello Again: Managing Talent with Boomerang Employees"Human Resource Management. 60.2 (2021): 295-312
• Stewart, Virginia; Snyder, Deirdre; Kou, Chia-Yu. "We Hold Ourselves Accountable: A Relational View of Team Accountability"Journal of Business Ethics. 183.3 (2023): 691-712
• Snyder, Deirdre; Newman, Kevin. "Reducing consumer loneliness through brand communities"Journal of Consumer Marketing. 36.2 (2019): 337-347
• Welsh, David; Ordonez, Lisa; Snyder, Deirdre; Christian, Michael. "The slippery slope: How small ethical transgressions pave the way for larger future transgressions"Journal of Applied Psychology. 100.1 (2015): 114-127

Awards

• Creative Teaching Award: Taking Learning Outside the Classroom, Honorable Mention (2026) Center for Teaching Innovation, Cornell University
• Faculty Teaching Recognition Award - Junior/Senior Core Spring (2025) Cornell Nolan School of Hotel Administration
• Faculty Teaching Recognition Award - First Year Core Fall (2022) Cornell Nolan School of Hotel Administration
• Outstanding MBA Faculty Award (2019) Providence College School of Business
• Greene Family Award for Teaching Excellence (2017) Providence College School of Business