Michal Izak is a Professor in Organisation Studies at the Chester Business School, University of Chester. He is an active researcher and has published in international scholarly journals such as Organization Studies; Human Relations; Work, Employment and Society, and many other. He is an Associate Editor of Management Learning journal, as well as an editorial board member of Organisation Studies, and acts as a regular reviewer to over thirty academic journals. He is the Business School Research Lead and REF 29 Unit of Assessment coordinator (UoA 17). He also conducts research outreach activities (recently: TEDx), and writes for practitioner outlets. Prior to joining the University of Chester he worked at the University of Essex, Lincoln and Roehampton, as well as had a brief career in consulting before joining the academia.