Michael Bar-Eli is a Professor and Chair of the Business Administration Department and the Nat Holman Chair in Sports Research at the Faculty of Business and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva. He also heads the Sport Management program at the Wingate Academic College. Bar-Eli has consulted for elite athletic teams, including the Israeli and German national basketball teams, the Israeli national water polo team, several Israeli male and female soccer and basketball teams, and Israeli Olympic teams, along with prominent organizations such as the Israeli Defense Forces, where he was the head organizational psychologist of both the Israeli Artillery Corps and the Combat Fitness Center.