Born and raised in Chennai, Nivedhitha KS holds a Ph.D. in management and works as an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. She has taught Organizational Behavioural dynamics, Leadership, and HR analytics to several management students, and mid-management and senior executives. Also, being a recipient of the UGC-Junior Research Fellowship award, she extensively focusses her research on building a nexus between technology and behavioural psychology. Being a happily working mother, she also contributes to the area of women’s psychology through constant research and her opinion pieces. Her research works have been published in several internationally acclaimed journals. At the same time, her opinion articles are covered in mainstream business magazines.

Beyond academia, in another world, she is Nivedita KS, a fiction writer. Prior to her writing profile, she was engaged as an editor for several English fiction novels. She strongly believes that fiction books can speak hard-hitting realities and lovable tales about humankind. Her fiction novels, including ‘Lost in Your Façade’ and ‘Breaking My Façade’, live as testaments to her ‘another world’. At present, she finds procrastination very useful, and she is nailing it 😊