Dr. Suneetha is currently an Assistant Professor in human resource management and organizational behavior at the Indian Institute of Management, Raipur. She holds a PhD in Management from XLRI-Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur and did her master’s from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Before joining academia, she spent seventeen years in human resources within the manufacturing industry. She was a Visiting Fellow at the ILR school of Cornell University from March-June 2025. She was a Fellow of International Humanistic Management Association (2024-2025).
Dr. Suneetha’s research centers on human flourishing, dignity, and well-being in organizational life, reflected in her doctoral thesis, Being Who We Are (Loving Beings) and Doing What We Know (Holding and Being Held): Reimagining Group Life and Leadership for Peace and Sustainability. Her current work explores the Ecozoic paradigm and Ecozoic leadership based on the work of Thomas Berry. Her work also focuses on micro-affirmations, the Keatsian concept of negative capability, and slowing down. She also works in critical pedagogy, examining how business education must be reimagined to confront the ecological and social crises of our time. She is trained in micro-phenomenology. She completed TECTU (Training in Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding), an interdisciplinary European Erasmus+ program.
As a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr. Suneetha is aiming to develop labor metrics and auditing practices for the construction industry, drawing from the more developed practices and metrics in apparel and footwear supply chains. The study will contribute to better due diligence practices and governance in construction supply chains.