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 Human Relations, 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.