Prof. Shilpa Shinde has a PhD from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Masters in Human Resource Development from Vanderbilt University, U.S.A. She was awarded the Dean’s scholarship to pursue the same. She also has a Masters in Educational Psychology from University of Pune and was awarded University rank for it. She is currently pursuing her PhD from University of Pune in the area of ‘Gestalt Coaching as a tool for Organizational Development’. Her focus is on understanding the role of gestalt coaching in improving the self esteem, causal attributions, goal setting and need satisfaction of participants who are at the middle management level. Her other research has been in the area of conflict of interest policies in international health technology assessment organizations.

Prof.Shilpa has a combined experience of 6 years in the field of teaching, consulting and research. She has taught various courses in Human Resource management and Organizational Behavior for postgraduate level management programs. She has been involved in curriculum development for various HR courses.

She is passionate about training and development activities and has worked on the design and development of workshops on ‘Healthy Human Relationships’, ‘Small Group Communication Analysis’ and ‘Self Development’ for corporates as well as UG & PG students.