Kirk Snyder is an award-winning business communication professor at the University of Southern California, critically acclaimed author, and Fortune 500 speaker. His work fuses the studies of communication, culture, and careers set within the contemporary workplace.    

Kirk’s work has been featured in TIME Magazine, Fast Company, Fortune, GQ Magazine, strategy + business, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Wall Street Journal, The Advocate, as well as on BravoTV.  His writing has been widely recognized including a Top Ten Editors' Pick by Amazon, a best business book of the year nod by strategy + business, a place on Harvard Business Review’s prestigious annual reading list, as well as receiving  starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Library Journal.

At his alma mater, the University of Southern California, Kirk teaches in both the undergraduate business and MBA programs.  His work has also made him a sought after speaker and communication advisor at companies, organizations, and universities across America that include Cisco Systems, The Commonwealth Club of California, Goldman Sachs, The Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, McDonald’s Corporation, McKinsey & Company, Morgan Stanley, Novartis, Portland State University, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC), Reaching Out MBA, Unilever Corporation, University of California (Berkeley, San Francisco, and Merced), and the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Kirk studied Entrepreneurship in USC's business school as an undergraduate, and his masters and doctoral studies span the disciplines of Communication and Organizational Change and Leadership.

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