Mike Dean has worked as an ecological consultant since 1997, with roles in varying size consultancies from the very small (one or two staff members) to the very large multi-disciplinary consultancy, and a few in between. He's undertaken ecological surveys and produced ecological reports of all different types and sizes. In 2013 he joined the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management's (CIEEM) Professional Standards Committee, tasked with producing guidelines on, amongst other things, ecological report writing. He's been delivering training on report writing for CIEEM since 2015.