Louise Mullany is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham UK. She has researched language and identities in the workplace for the last 25 years and published a number of books, articles and chapters with international publishing houses. She is founder and director of Linguistic Profiling for Professionals, a research centre and business unit at the University of Nottingham. She has delivered research-based consultancy and training on the sociolinguistics of diversity and inclusion to over 300 nationl and international businesses and organisations. She leads the global Language, Gender and Leadership Network, funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council. Recent books include Globalisation, Geopolitics and Gender in Professional Communication (with Stephanie Schnurr, Routledge) and Professional Communication: Consultancy, Advocacy, Activism (Springer). She is Commissioning Editor for Routledge New York’s monograph series, Applied Professional Communication.