Teaching Experience
Dr. P. Gowri Kusuma
Assistant. Professor
Specializes in strategic human resource management. Focuses on organizational development and employee performance management.
Experience
20 Yrs
Qualification
PhD
Department
HR & Strategy
Qualification
PhD
Experience
20 Years
Department
HR & Strategy
Area of Expertise
HR & Strategy
Designation
Assistant. Professor
gowri@ssim.ac.in
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Dr. P. Gowri Kusuma
Assistant. Professor
Qualification
PhD
Experience
20 Years
Department
HR & Strategy
Dr.P.Gowri Kusuma
MBA, PhD, M.Com, PGDPMIR, UGCNET, APSET
Academician and certified Dale Carnegie Behavioural Trainer. 20 years of expertise in facilitating OB and HR courses, nurturing young talent and delivering effective training programs to senior management. Skilled in designing the training programs as per client requirements. Strong focus on team collaboration, adaptability, and achieving results. Known for reliability, flexibility, and fostering positive learning environment.
Awarded – ‘Excellence in Teaching for MBA (HR)’ by Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD), Hyderabad – 2025.
Received 7 Best Paper awards
Topper at NPTEL-SWAYAM courses
Published research papers in ABDC, Scopus, Sage and other indexed journals
Presented papers at IITs, IIMs, James Cook University - Singapore and many other institutes of repute.
Organized and participated in various FDPs.
Areas of Research includes Leadership, Employee Engagement and contemporary HR areas
Conducted Training Programs for NCL Industries Ltd, Hetero Labs, Annora Pharma, Gaja Engineering Pvt.Ltd, Auro Infra, APL Apollo Tubes Limited.
Have a niche for Outbound Training Programs.
Delivered Expert sessions at niMSME and NSTI
Resource Person at Mahatma Gandhi National Council for Rural Education (MGNCRE, MoE, GoI)
Excellence in Teaching (MBA – HR) Award by Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD) Hyderabad on 9th May 2025.
Best Presentation award for the paper titled “Bakey’s Edible Cutlery – A journey of innovation and impact – Connecting the dots” presented at ICSSR sponsored two day National Seminar (29th – 30th Aug 2024), organized by Kurukshetra University
Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Adaptive Clothing is really adaptive? – A lens view of awareness towards adaptive clothing in Hyderabad. Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Advances in Engineering, Technology and Business Management (24th – 25th May 2024) , NMIET Pune
Topper in ‘Advances in Strategic Human Resource Management’ (April 2023) course offered by IIT Bombay through SWAYAM NPTEL
Best Paper Award for the paper titled – ‘Emotional Labor and Engagement of Nurses’ presented at 2 day International Conference on Business Management and Social Innovation organized by Siva Sivani Institute of Management, Hyderabad (11th -12th Feb 2023)
One of the Top 100 participants (out of 6000) at Women Startup Programme, 2018 conducted by NSRCEL, Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore
“Top Performer” at AICTE approved Four Week Faculty Development Programme, on ‘Use of ICT in Education for Online and Blended Learning’, conducted by IIT Bombay (May-July 2016)
“Best Paper” with cash prize of Rs. 4,000/- for the paper titled “Employee Engagement” – A strategic Approach to sustain in the VUCA environment, at National Conference by SNIST (2016)
“Best Paper” award with a cash prize of Rs. 10,000/- for the paper titled “Role of Leader’s Behavior in building TGIM attitude”, at Two Day National Conference organized by DY Patil Institute of Management Studies, Pune on 5th- 6th February 2016.
“Best HR Research Paper” award with a cash prize of Rs.1,00,000/- at NHRD HR Showcase (Bengaluru) 2015, for the paper titled “An Exploratory study on Employee Engagement and Thank God It’s Monday” – 11th September 2015.
Adjudged ‘Best paper’ for the paper “Employee Engagement initiatives at Great Places to Work” at the National Conference by SNIST, Hyderabad – 2014
