With more than 20 years of international teaching experience, Laura Zizka, PhD, has been a faculty member at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) since 2002. As an Assistant Professor, she teaches Business Communication, Academic Writing, and Crisis/Strategic Communication to undergraduate and graduate students as well as coaching Student Business Projects and undergraduate theses. Since 2017, Dr. Zizka has begun teaching similar courses online in the Blended MBA (EHL).

Since completing her PhD in Management, Dr. Zizka has presented papers at education, hospitality, and management conferences and published papers on various communications topics linked to both higher education and the workplace. Her main research areas include communications, higher education, hospitality management, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM) education, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)/sustainability actions, initiatives, and reporting. She is also interested in the gaps between higher education and the workplace.