The Talking About Organizations Podcast crew are all volunteers — we do this for the learning, for the great conversations we have, and for the camaraderie we enjoy. We are a mix of traditional scholars and regular practitioners from all around the world and all fields of organization studies and management science. We think of ourselves as a community of practice (see Episode 94) who like to span boundaries and challenge our own ways of thinking.
We are also very respectful and believe in the virtues of polite academic discourse. We are a “clean” language podcast and our conversations are recorded organically with only light editing. We also do not use AI or other tricks to artificially enhance the recordings. What you hear is honest group dialogue. That’s the TAOP way!
Tom Galvin
EdD / Podcaster / Administrator
Tom is an associate professor studying strategic leadership and management, and has published on matters of professional education, organizational change, organizational communication campaigning, and professionalism. He also has a variety of interests such as sports and the use of sports metaphors in organizations, the use and misuse of science when bridging with practice, and identity transitions. Linkedin
Pedro Monteiro
PhD / Co-founder / Podcaster
Pedro is an ethnographer of work and organizations focused on bureaucracy/formal organizational structures. His research examines how organizations develop, recognize and integrate expertise and the social (dys)functions of bureaucracy via qualitative methods. He is currently an assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Linkedin Website
Gretta Corporaal
PhD / Podcaster
A sociologist of work and organizations, Gretta’s academic interests center around the future of work and how digital technologies enable new models of work and organizing to emerge. Her current research is an ethnography of the creation and adoption of online labor platforms. Linkedin Website
Samantha Ortiz-Casillas
PhD / Podcaster
Sam is an ethnographer of work and organization in the contexts of public administration and political collective action. Her research examines how people organize and work towards social change—through public policy, regulation, or community organizing—in complex and sometimes hostile environments. She is an assistant professor at Nova School of Business and Economics. Linkedin Website
Sarah Otner
PhD / Podcaster
Sarah is an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) of Organizational Behavior at Kingston Business School. She works at the intersection of Organizational Theory and Economic Sociology. Sarah’s research focuses on awards and prizes, with specific phenomenological interests in cultural domains, the evaluation of elites, and non-linear career trajectories. She serves on the Editorial Board of Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ). Twitter Linkedin Website
Rohin Borpujari
PhD / Podcaster
Rohin is an Assistant Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the UCL School of Management. His dissertation investigated how secretive innovation is organized, using an in-depth historical case study of the Manhattan Project. Rohin’s research aims to understand how people navigate knowledge sharing and concealment while managing associated social dynamics of inclusion and exclusion within and across organizations. His work on the Manhattan Project has been recognized with Best Paper and Murray Davis ‘Thats Interesting!’ awards at AOM and EGOS respectively. He joined as a guest on Episode 92: Organizational Secrecy — Case of the Manhattan Project and joined as a full-time cast member in 2023. LinkedIn
Miranda Lewis
PhD / Co-founder / Podcaster
Currently Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Bayes Business School, Miranda leads core modules on the undergraduate programme in Business and Management. Her research looks at top management teams and the nexus between cognition and growth literature. She has focused on growth ambitions in the case of family businesses. Linkedin
Catherine Jackson
MBA / Podcaster
Catherine holds an MBA from the Warwick Business School. A journalist by trade, for the past 11 years she has been working in the not-for-profit sector as a consultant in fundraising and communications. Previously she worked as a print journalist for publications in the UK and Ireland. Linkedin
Laura Adler
PhD / Podcaster
Laura is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Yale Department of Economics. Her research examines topics at the intersection of organizations, gender, and cultural sociology with a focus on the future of work. Her recent research explores how the interaction between organizations and pay equity laws has shaped employers’ pay-setting practices. Using multiple methods including in-depth interviews, archival research, and survey experiments, this project provides insight into pay-setting as an organizational practice and site for the reproduction of inequality. Linkedin
Anupama Kondayya
PhD / Podcaster
Anu is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. Her research interests include Organizational and Institutional Change, Diversity and Inclusion, Neo-Institutionalism, Social Symbolic Work, Social Evaluations, Business and Management History, and Eastern and Indigenous Perspectives. She is a qualitative researcher with experience in collecting and analyzing archival and interview data. Linkedin
Frithjof Wegener
PhD / Podcaster
Frithjof is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University, Duesseldorf, Germany. He specializes in organizational design and strategy at the intersection of research, teaching, consulting, and professional speaking, with a strong focus on sustainability and innovation. Grounded in a pragmatic approach, He balances academic rigor with hands-on, practical solutions to real-world challenges.. Linkedin X
Leonardo Melo Lins
PhD / Podcaster
A sociologist by training, Leonardo currently works at the Brazilian Network Center (NIC.br) where he is responsible for the conduction of the ICT Enterprises survey and to promote the use of ICT by Brazilian enterprises. His research interests include institutional theory, organizational change, digital economy, and public policy to foster development. Linkedin Twitter
Ralph Soule
EdD / Co-founder / Podcaster / Cast Member (2017-2021)
Ralph (also known as “Rafael”) is a retired United States Navy Captain and a co-creator of the podcast. He holds a Doctorate in Human and Organizational Learning from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Dmitrijs Kravčenko
PhD / Founder / Administrator / Cast Member (2015-2020)
A philosophically inclined social epistemologist, Dmitrijs is the creator of the podcast and is currently Assistant Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia. He holds a Doctorate in Management from Warwick Business School, UK.
Jarryd Daymond
PhD / Cast Member (2017-2022)
Jarryd is a Postdoctoral Researcher at The University of Sydney Business School and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Jarryd’s research examines strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship practices in organizations, which are areas he first became interested in while consulting on strategy interventions. His current postdoctoral work includes collaborating with scientists, engineers and biomedical researchers to advance knowledge about science commercialization.
Maikel Waardenburg
PhD / Cast Member (2018-2022)
An interpretive scholar, who is particularly interested in connections between organizations from different domains. Maikel’s research interests include organizational change, hybridization and public-private partnerships. He is based at Utrecht University’s School of Governance, NL.
Ella Hafermalz
PhD / Cast Member (2017-2020)
Ella Hafermalz joined the KIN research group in 2018. Ella has a PhD in Information Systems and Work and Organisational Studies from the University of Sydney Business School in Australia and also holds degrees in Teaching, Media and Communications, and Cultural Studies from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research looks at how technologies are used to facilitate new ways of working. Ella is particularly interested in how distance and remoteness are experienced by workers, and her research has looked at how colleagues skillfully use technologies to achieve a sense of being together even when they are physically apart.