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This synopsis provides a concise overview of my contributions to the field of gender and diversity in organizations. Organizing my publications as 10 contributions to four distinctive themes of ‘exploring the Other' allowed me to briefly situate my work in the context of the field's four major debates of the last decade. First, my contributions to the theme of the ‘re-invented Other' showed how the paradoxical effects of organizational interventions towards equality can be explained from a discourse analytical perspective. Second, I provided a thorough analysis of the practices through which marginalized identities are achieved in micro-discursive practices. Third, I empirically investigated the possibilities of change and change agency as a discursive practice and, fourth, I provided insights into the challenges of investigating ‘doing gender' as a fluid, flexible and shifting practice and the consequences for theory building respectively. In fact, in developing these four themes, I also contributed to the larger field of discourse and practice-based studies in organizations. By further introducing discourse psychological concepts to the research on organizations, my research facilitated insights on investigating discourse as a distinctive social practice and provided concise concepts for the analysis of everyday practices in organizations. By introducing Judith Butler's concepts of performativitiy and subversion to questions of organizational change, I pointed out her further impact for organizational theory. Furthermore, my research draws attention to the relevance of new ways of theorizing change agency in organizational change.