Deepa Sethi is the dean, programmes and international relations, and professor, business communication, in the area of humanities and liberal arts in management at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, India. With more than fifteen years of teaching and research experience, she specializes in business communication, soft skills, social media communication, advanced corporate communication and cross-cultural communication, among other areas. She has been published in and has guest-edited major academic journals. Experiential and activity-based teaching have been her forte, and she is known for her style of teaching, which has practical implications in addition to theoretical underpinnings. Her training programmes on topics such as managerial effectiveness lab, communication effectiveness lab and soft skills for interpersonal effectiveness for working executives are highly acclaimed. Her faculty development programme, titled 'Innovative Approaches in Management Teaching', is much sought after.