Teaching and academic engagement.
Degree, executive and doctoral teaching; courses built around cinema, cricket and turnarounds; and the conferences, lectures and editorial work that connect her to the field.
Teaching and engagement, counted from the record.
8
Programmes taught at SPJIMR
PGEMP, PGPM, PGPDM, PGDM, PGDM-Online, SYB, GMP, FPM
3
Co-designed courses
Cinema, cricket and turnarounds
4
Visiting and guest appointments
Hungary, Chennai, Gurgaon and Delhi
14
Conference presentations and workshops
2021 to 2026
Current appointment.
Current
Indian School of Business
Faculty, HR-OB
Past appointments.
September to November 2025
University of Pécs
Visiting Faculty, Hungary
- Taught Sustainable Human Resource Management to global students.
March to April 2025
Great Lakes Institute of Management and Research
Visiting Faculty, Chennai
- Taught Netflix and Learn: The Art of Leadership through Movies on the PGPM.
April 2023 to March 2026
SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR)
Assistant Professor, Organisation and Leadership Studies, Mumbai
- Taught across eight degree and executive programmes using case studies, simulation, gamification and video-based learning.
- Customised executive programmes (MDPs) for corporates, government bodies and social-sector organisations.
- Co-designed three electives: Netflix & Learn, Pitch to Boardroom, and Resilience and Turnaround.
February to April 2022
Masters Union School of Business
Visiting Faculty, Entrepreneurship and Human Resource Management, Gurgaon
- Designed a course on human resource management in new ventures and strategic human resource management.
- Involved in enrolling the 2022 cohort.
December 2017 to March 2018
Bharti College, University of Delhi
Guest Faculty, Financial Accounting (B.Com)
- Taught how to evaluate the financial health of companies from their reported financial statements.
- Organised career counselling sessions for more than 100 students.
Courses across 8 SPJIMR programmes, 2023 to 2026.
As Assistant Professor in Organisation and Leadership Studies, using case studies, simulation, gamification and video-based learning.
PGEMP
Post Graduate Executive Management Programme
Taught: Leadership
Managing teams, developing leadership effectiveness and strengthening interpersonal influence among senior executives.
PGPM and PGPDM
Post Graduate Programme in Management and Post Graduate Program in Development Management
Taught: Strategic People Management; Product Entrepreneurship Lab
HR systems linked to social-impact outcomes for development-sector professionals; how ventures scale through people, capability building and founder-driven culture.
PGDM
Post Graduate Diploma in Management (two-year flagship)
Taught: Strategic HRM; People & Performance; Talent Management; Managing High-Performing Teams
Core and elective courses integrating behavioural science with practical HR decision-making.
PGDM-Online
Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Online
Taught: Strategic Human Resource Management
Digital-first HR systems and contemporary workforce practices for online MBA participants.
SYB
Start Your Business: Family Business and Entrepreneurship Program
Taught: Scaling through people and systems
Helping entrepreneurs build structured HR processes and leadership capability for venture growth.
GMP
Global Management Program (dual-degree global immersion)
Taught: Organization Behaviour; Design Thinking & Innovation
Cross-cultural collaboration, creativity and user-centric problem solving.
FPM
Fellowship Program in Management
Taught: Strategic HRM
Taught doctoral scholars, supervised MRes theses in the SHRM domain, and served as an external evaluator for research projects in organisational behaviour.
Three co-designed courses.
Leadership through film, strategy through Indian cricket, resilience through turnaround stories.
Elective, co-designed
Netflix & Learn: The Art of Leadership through Movies
Integrates cinematic storytelling with leadership theories, enabling reflective and critical insight into leadership dynamics.
Also taught as a visiting course on the PGPM at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, in 2025.
Newly co-designed at SPJIMR, 2024
Pitch to Boardroom: Lessons from Indian Cricket
Extracts strategic management and teamwork lessons from Indian cricket scenarios.
Elective, co-designed
Resilience and Turnaround: Success Strategies from Indian Icons and Organizations
Turnaround stories and resilience strategies from prominent Indian figures and companies.
Teaching methods
- Case studies
- Simulation
- Gamification
- Video-based learning
- Design thinking
- Rapid prototyping
- Cinema-based leadership education
Customised programmes for executives.
MDPs for corporates, government bodies and social-sector organisations.
Team leadership, collaboration and emotional intelligence
Executive programmes for corporates, government bodies and social-sector organisations on team leadership, collaboration, emotional intelligence and managing high-performing teams.Design thinking and innovation
Programmes that helped managers apply human-centred problem solving to organisational challenges and strategic decision-making.Artificial Intelligence and Human Resource Management
Domain-specific programmes on AI-enabled HR processes, their ethical considerations, and technology-driven workforce transformation.Stress and time management, strategic people systems, leadership development
Capability-building interventions for senior and mid-level executives across industries.
Supervision and mentoring
- Supervised MRes theses in the strategic HRM domain on the SPJIMR Fellowship Program in Management.
- External evaluator for research projects in Organizational Behaviour.
- Mentored first-year PGDM students on effective mentoring practice in the Abhyudaya programme for underprivileged children, and evaluated the impact students created during their DoCC visits.
Developing as a teacher
Wharton Global Faculty Development Program, 2025
The Wharton School: a four-day intensive on creating impactful research and the art of teaching, led by Martine Haas, Lori Rosenkopf, Rahul Kapoor and Matthew Bidwell
Doctoral Consortium on Teaching, February 2022
Centre for Teaching and Learning, IIM Bangalore: effective teaching and building an impactful classroom experience
Conference presentations and workshops.
14 presentations and doctoral workshops since 2021, grouped by year, newest first. Anything not yet held is marked upcoming.
2026
86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Philadelphia, USA, August 2026
2025
85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2025
2024
84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Chicago, USA, August 2024
2023
83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Boston, USA, August 2023
Best Paper Award, HR Division
39th EGOS Colloquium, University of Cagliari
Cagliari, Italy, July 2023
European Academy of Management, Trinity Business School
Dublin, Ireland, June 2023
Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference
Knoxville, USA, June 2023
2022
ICODO Doctoral Workshop, International Conference on Digital Organizations, IIM Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad, India, November 2022
82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Seattle, USA, August 2022
38th EGOS Colloquium, WU Vienna
Vienna, Austria, July 2022
5th Global Conference on International HRM, Pennsylvania State University
Hybrid, May 2022
International Conference on Green HRM and Sustainable Behaviour, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Vienna, Austria, March 2022
2021
NASPAA South Asia Conference
November 2021
81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Virtual, August 2021
Invited lectures and workshops.
Online lecture
Enhancing Research Impact: Tools and Techniques for Effective Publishing
K.R. Mangalam University
A two-hour online lecture with more than 100 participants; feedback 4.44 out of 5.
February 2023
Lecture on innovative approaches to solving problems
SK Associates and Group
Delivered to more than 100 students; received as one of the best lectures in the domain.
October 2022
Lecture on design thinking
Blind People Association (BPA), at IIM Ahmedabad
Delivered to fifty women of the Blind People Association, under the guidance of Prof Amit Karna and Prof Rajesh Chandwani.
Editorial and review work
- Editor-in-Chief, NewsBlast, Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division, May and September 2025 issues.
- Member of the Early Career Review Board, Employee Relations: The International Journal, from February 2025.
- Track Chair, HR/OB area, 3rd Annual Winter Conference on Sustainable Business (WCSB 2024), Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon, December 2024.
- Member and reviewer, Academy of Management, Human Resource Management and Entrepreneurship Divisions.
- Reviewer for international and national journals and conferences.
- Case reviewer for IIM Bangalore, IIM Raipur and Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies.
Institution building
- FiNovate Entrepreneurship Program, SPJIMR (2024 onwards): entrepreneurial ecosystem building under the WISE Tech Acceleration vertical.
- Selection of participants across programmes (2023 onwards): panellist for PGDM, PGPM (one-year MBA), the Fellow Program in Management and executive programmes.
- University service at IIM Ahmedabad: PhD Representative to the Executive Committee, and Lab Representative.
- Leads SPJIMR's video podcast series on AI and Digital Transformation, featuring top executives and exploring change management and capability development.
Research collaborators are listed on the research overview.
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