Dr. Robyn Walker is a professor emerita of management communication at the Center for Management Communication at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, where she taught business writing and business communication to undergraduate and graduate students. She earned a master's and a doctoral degree in communication from the University of Utah and a master's degree in professional writing from the University of Southern California. She also holds an M.B.A. Dr. Walker has held faculty appointments at the University of Arizona and California State University-Fullerton. Before entering academia, Dr. Walker worked as a professional writer and editor with such organizations as United Press International, McGraw-Hill and Novell. She also has worked as a writing consultant for companies such as Hoffman LaRoche Pharmaceuticals and Franklin-Covey, Inc. She has published articles and has delivered dozens of conference papers on intercultural communication, computer-mediated communication, communication leadership and business communication pedagogy. She is the editor of Business and Professional Communication Quarterly and former editor of the International Journal of Business Communication. She is co-editor of Discourse Perspectives on Organizational Communication (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press); co-author of LEADERSHIP TALK: A DISCOURSE APPROACH TO LEADER EMERGENCE (Business Expert Press) and FUNDAMENTAL THEORIES OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION: LAYING A FOUNDATION FOR THE FIELD (Palgrave-Macmillan). She is also a member of the Association of Business Communication (ABC).
