Dionne Pohler

Dionne Pohler joined Cornell University ILR School and the Scheinman Institute in July 2025. Dionne is also an associate editor at ILR Review and a practicing mediator.

Dionne has received several major awards and grants for her research, which spans topics on employment and HR practices, labour relations, conflict and dispute resolution, co-operatives, rural issues, and public policy. Current collaborative projects include exploring sources of conflict in different contexts and the role of mediators, impacts of COVID-19 policies on workers, rural-urban polarization, co-operative development and governance, and drivers of gender inequality. She edited the Labor and Employment Relations Association annual research volume, Reimagining the Governance of Work and Employment (2020) and co-edited Building Inclusive Communities in Rural Canada (2023). Her research is also published in peer-reviewed academic journals including ILR Review, Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Canadian Public Policy, and Human Resource Management.

Dionne holds a PhD in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the University of Alberta School of Business and a Bachelor of Commerce from Dalhousie University. Prior to joining the ILR School, Dionne held faculty and administrative positions at both the University of Saskatchewan Edwards School of Business and the University of Toronto Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources. From 2021-2025 she also held the Co-operative Retailing System Chair in Co-operative Governance at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy and Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives.