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Meredith Marra is Head of the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand where she teaches sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis from first year to PhD level. She has been researching aspects of workplace discourse for close to 20 years and is Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project. Her primary research interest is the language of business meetings, but she has also published in the areas of power, (im)politeness, humour and aspects of identity (especially gender and ethnic identity) in the Journal of Pragmatics, Language in Society and Text & Talk. Meredith is co-author of Leadership, Discourse, and Ethnicity (OUP, 2011) with the Language in the Workplace team, and co-editor of Constructing Identities at Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Negotiating Boundaries at Work (EUP, 2017).