Dr. Yeda Swirski de Souza, Ph.D.
Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos – UNISINOS
Yeda Swirski de Souza was born in 1957 in Porto Alegre (Brazil). She is a Professor in the Organizational Behavior and Strategy fields at Unisinos University (Brazil) since 2000. She has also been serving as Dean at Unisinos Business School since 2012. Yeda has two children, a son and a daughter who are already young adults. After getting a Ba in Psychology (1981, UFRGS, Brazil), Yeda did Graduate studies and training in clinical psychology. She had been a practitioner in clinical psychology for several years. In her mid-thirties she decided to shift her work to organizations and management. She did a Master in Business Management (1992, UFRGS, Brazil). She extended her clinical experience to consultancy in team work and leadership for different companies and had been an instructor in executive education programs. During 1995-1999, Yeda reconnected to academic work and did her Doctoral studies (PUCRS, Brazil). Her PhD thesis is focused on the relation between productive reasoning and organizational learning. In 2000, she was invited to be a part of Unisinos University faculty at the Unisinos School of Business. As a faculty member, Yeda has been responsible for courses in the Organizational Behavior field, either in the undergraduate and graduate levels. She also has been leading research projects and advising Master in Science and Doctoral thesis. Her interest in research is the investigation about knowledge and learning gaps companies from emerging economies needs to fulfill in order to belong to improve competiveness and belong to a global economy. The aim in these studies is to contribute to improve local companies, teams and leaders in order to turn them more prepared to perform globally.