She teaches organizational behavior to undergraduate and MBA students in the School of Business. Deirdre received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from UNC-Chapel Hill. At UNC she taught MBA classes in Ethical Leadership, Leading and Managing, Leading from the Middle, and Negotiations. She received the Wayne De Lozier Fellowship Award to the outstanding Ph.D. student in 2013. Her research interests include the impact of emotions on behaviors at work, organizational attachment, and ethical decision making. Her work on ethical decision making was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.