Meet Dawn Snyder
Founder | Fearless Leader
Dawn M. Snyder is the founder of Dawn Snyder Associates, a learning and performance firm that provides consulting on learning strategies, curriculum architecture, performance assessment and evaluation. Dawn has a proven track record of bringing practical, cutting-edge solutions to organizations who want to take performance to the next level. She helps these organizations achieve results by combining contemporary evidence-based best practices from a variety of disciplines, including learning and talent development, performance improvement and change management. She is the go-to consultant for initiatives that impact global learning and performance and talent development.
Dawn has also worked within organizations as a manager and change agent to build high-performing teams and programs that achieve transformative business results. She is recognized as an expert on analyzing what “good” looks like and helping groups at all levels push past barriers and achieve dramatic market, revenue and business success.
She is at the forefront of leading and managing remote and culturally diverse global teams.
Her superpowers include figuring things out using analysis and research techniques, translating research into practice, getting people on the same page, motivating and empowering teams and individuals, and aligning strategies and processes to desired results.
Dawn is passionate about supporting emerging talent and has worked in universities and corporations to build curricula and teach in programs that credential high-performing individuals. She teaches graduate-level classes in performance improvement, change management, evaluation, organizational learning, knowledge management, leadership, and project and relationship management. She advises doctoral students on their research.
Dawn holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology and is also a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) and Certified Change Management Practitioner (Prosci). She serves on the Advisory Board of the Doctorate of Professional Studies in Instructional Design Leadership at Franklin University and is the President of Central Ohio Chapter of ATD.