About

Kirk Snyder

Dr. Kirk Snyder is an award-winning Professor of Business Communication at the University of Southern California, critically acclaimed author, and Fortune 500 speaker. He also serves as Chair of the Department of Business Communication at USC Marshall. Kirk’s work fuses the studies of careers, communication, and culture, set within the contemporary workplace.  His new book, Finding Work You Love: 3 Steps to Getting The Perfect Job After College, for Penguin Random House's best-selling Ten Speed Press imprint, is available at all of your favorite booksellers.  

Kirk’s work has been featured in TIME Magazine, Fast Company, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, GQ Magazine, strategy + business, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Wall Street Journal. His writing has been widely acclaimed 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 organizations 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 holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business; a master’s degree in Communication from Pepperdine University, Seaver College; and earned his doctorate degree in Education in the discipline of Organizational Change and Leadership, also from the University of Southern California.