Kirk Snyder

Kirk Snyder

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Kirk Snyder is nationally recognized as an expert on the modern workplace and business leadership. At the University of Southern California, he teaches business communication in the Marshall School of Business in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. He also speaks nationally on business leadership and gay workplace issues. As an author, researcher and educator, Snyder has generated attention from many of the world’s most prestigious publications, including TIME Magazine, Fast Company, Fortune, Details Magazine, strategy + business, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The Advocate. His new book, The G Quotient (Jossey-Bass/Wiley), was named one of the best business books of the year by strategy + business, honored as a selection on Harvard Business Review’s prestigious annual reading list as well as receiving rave reviews in top publications including Publisher’s Weekly, Library Journal and Fast Company. The G Quotient has also been featured as the subject of a TIME Magazine feature article and a cover story in Details Magazine. Snyder’s 2003 debut book, Lavender Road to Success, was named by Amazon.com as one of the best books of the year as a top ten editors’ pick. He lives in Southern California and holds an undergraduate degree in Business Entrepreneurship from USC and a graduate degree in Communication from Pepperdine University. He can be reached through his site.

Blog Entries by Kirk Snyder

Terrorists Among Us: Rep. Sally Kern

17 Comments | Posted March 10, 2008 | 02:55 PM (EST)


The war against terror is obviously running amuck in Oklahoma. Just last week, born again Sally Kern, one of the more detestable elected officials in this country, was once again modeling how fear and hate mongering can be a dandy way to fire up the Republican base.

In a...

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Corporate America: The New Gay Activists

Posted July 16, 2007 | 10:34 PM (EST)


In a recent study by Gallup, almost ninety percent of Americans said they believe gay people should have equal rights in the workplace. Interestingly, only forty-seven percent of these same people believe that being gay is "morally acceptable." So what has convinced nearly nine out of ten people across...

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Falwell's Gay Legacy: Hate and Discrimination

Posted May 15, 2007 | 10:49 PM (EST)


Jerry Falwell is dead but his political legacy of hate and discrimination lives on among the fundamentalists. As the face of the original, now-defunct Moral Majority, Falwell built this political action committee by exploiting fear and ignorance. Anti-gay, anti-woman and anti-science, Falwell -- along with his friends in the Republican...

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Closeted CEOs: Furthering the Bush/Blair Culture of Secrecy

Posted May 2, 2007 | 09:02 PM (EST)


Today my phone has been ringing off the hook from reporters asking me about my opinion on the latest gay scandal. Lord John Browne has resigned as CEO of British Petroleum, forfeited millions of dollars in bonuses and faces perjury charges all because he felt it necessary to keep his...

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Log Cabin Republicans: New Year, New Leader...Same Destructive Message

Posted January 2, 2007 | 01:55 PM (EST)


Log Cabin Republicans just elected a new leader, Patrick Sammon, a 32 year-old Roman Catholic, who wants to do his part to return the GOP to congressional power by "pursuing a unifying and inclusive conservative agenda." The ultimate in absurdist politics, this group and its leadership should hang their contradictory...

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Gay Marriage: Turning Up the Heat on Fundamentalists

Posted June 29, 2006 | 06:44 PM (EST)


In the upcoming months, the flames surrounding the cultural battle over gay marriage will once again blaze as Republicans continue to promote one of the greatest political hoaxes of modern times. Resorting to worn-out but stalwart methodologies to rile up their fundamentalist base, it's time to turn up the heat...

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Why Gay Men Are Outperforming the Good-Old-Boys in Business

Posted May 30, 2006 | 09:15 PM (EST)


All across the U.S. economy, from corporate America to small business, gay men are proving they have what it takes to be today's preferred organizational leaders. After recently completing a five-year research project spanning more than 3,000 working professionals all over the country, I found reported levels of job engagement,...

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