Meet Shannon Deer.

Professional Biography

Dr. Shannon Deer, Ph.. D., CPA is the associate dean for undergraduate programs at Texas A&M’s Mays Business School and a clinical associate professor. Dr. Deer has served in many roles across Mays Business School, most recently as the assistant dean of graduate programs and the director of the Full-Time MBA program. Prior to that, Dr. Deer was the assistant department head and instructor in the Department of Accounting at Mays for almost 10 years. Dr. Deer returned to Texas A&M to teach after working in public accounting. During her time in public accounting, Dr. Deer served large SEC filers as well as large private exploration and production companies. She has maintained a connection with practice through outside consulting and teaching executive development.

Dr. Deer’s work emphasizes the importance of corporate social responsibility along with the intersection of business and solutions to social challenges. Specifically, she explores ways businesses can leverage human resource development tools to invest in women to positively impact the business, community, and individual families. Her upcoming book – Business Doing Good: Engaging Women and Elevating Communities – outlines six principles business leaders can implement to effectively hire women who have experienced incarceration, poverty, addiction, and/or engagement in the sex trade. While making a difference to both these women and communities, businesses benefit from the women’s resourcefulness, resilience, ability to motivate, and other unique skills and perspectives only available to someone who has overcome difficulties.

Dr. Deer’s career has also focused on the energy industry from multiple perspectives – accounting, finance, and sustainability. The intersection of her experiences positions her well to support companies in their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efforts as well as profit focus.

Dr. Deer is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award, the Ernst & Young Teaching Excellence Award, and the Baggett Teaching Award. Dr. Deer was honored to serve as a Fish Camp namesake in the summer of 2013 (a freshman orientation camp).

Dr. Deer received her BBA Accounting, MS Finance, and Ph.D. Education and Human Resource Development all from Texas A&M Universi

Research interests: Environmental, social, governance (ESG); corporate social responsibility (CSR); women in business; anti-trafficking; business solutions to social problems

Personal Biography

Shannon grew up in Sugar Land, Texas near Houston. She is much more coordinated in water than on land. She coached summer league swim team in Sugar Land for many years during high school and college, played Water Polo on A&M’s women’s club team, and coached a Masters swim team at A&M. Shannon also loves to wakeboard.

In her spare time, Shannon loves to spend time with her husband. Shannon and her husband Ryan are avid Aggie football fans. They were married on Kyle Field in 2011 (a little hardcore). She also loves relaxing on her screened porch and feeding her fish.