Appointed as an Independent Director on the Board of Governors of Gujarat Industries Power Company Limited, a Public Limited company under the auspices of Government of Gujarat (GoG), for a 5-year period starting December 2023.
2023 Coursera Learners First Achievement Award for teaching the popular Leadership Skills course (Course link: https://www.coursera.org/learn/leadershipskills)
Book 'Demystifying Leadership: Unveiling the Mahabharata Code' conferred the 'Business Book of the Year' award in the business management category by FICCI in 2022.
Panel member of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Gujarat State HR Panel for the year 2022-23.
Member of UGC’s expert committee for the development of “Guidelines for leadership development programmes to prepare faculty members for potential institutional leadership roles” since February 23, 2022.
Member of the Board of Governors, IIM Ahmedabad from December, 2020 till February, 2022.
Associate Editor, Asian Case Research Journal from March, 2020 till November, 2021.
Served as the President of the Indian Academy of Management, an affiliate of the Academy of Management, US, from January, 2020 to January, 2022.
Served as an Independent Director on the Board of Directors of Gujarat Gas Ltd., India's Largest City Gas Distribution Company from August, 2017 to July, 2021.
Conferred the ‘National Academy of Sciences India (NASI) – Scopus Young Scientist Award’ in 2016 in the Social Sciences Category.
Served as a panel member of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Gujarat State HR Panel for the years 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2021-22.
Conferred Emerging Psychologist award by the National Academy of Psychology (NAOP), India during its 24th Annual Convention held at Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal during December 12-14, 2014.
Doctoral thesis selected for the Outstanding Doctoral Research Award by Emerald in the Leadership & Organization Development Category in 2014.
Paper titled “How leaders impact employee creativity: A study of Indian R&D laboratories” published in Management Research Review selected by the journal’s Editorial Team as a Highly Commended Paper of 2013.
Chosen as one of India’s 25 Young HR Leaders in 2013 by People Matters, a HR magazine.
Paper entitled ‘Psychological capital as a mediator of the relationship between leadership and creative performance behaviors: Empirical evidence from the Indian R&D sector’ awarded the Best Paper Award at the 12th International HRM Conference, held at MDI Gurgaon from December 10-13, 2012.
Paper titled ‘Linking HRM practices and employee creativity through positive psychological capital’ awarded Prof. Sourya Pattnaik Best Paper Award at the XXth Annual Conference of the National Academy of Psychology held at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India from December 12-15, 2010.
Awarded Science Award, 2001 by the Uttar Pradesh State Government for scoring 100% marks in Mathematics in the Intermediate Board Examination.