- About

A scientist's discipline.
A teacher's heart.
A practitioner's calm.

Dr. Deepa Goel found her vocation late, after a doctorate in molecular biology and years of bench science. The eighteen years since have been spent in classrooms, conference rooms, and police academies, helping people meet themselves and the room they're in.

Any form of achievement comes from the yog, the union of consistency of vision, steadfastness to purpose, honesty to goals, and empathy to others.

- Dr. Deepa Goel

- The path

Dr. Deepa Goel is a life and professional-skills trainer who helps professionals and students get ahead in their lives and careers. A scientist by education and a facilitator by passion, she has been at the forefront of enabling young people to do better in their chosen fields for over eighteen years.

She found her true calling after a residential course at IIT Kanpur on Human Values and Professional Ethics. By then she had already earned a PhD in Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering from Delhi University, conducted research at IARI, CCMB and TERI, authored a book on bioethics published by Pearson, guided doctoral students and contributed numerous papers to international and national journals of repute.

In the years since, Dr. Deepa has shaped the professional careers of thousands of students and trainees through training interventions, counselling and holistic development. She is a certified yoga instructor, she brings harmony and inner peace through asana, pranayama and meditation. She is a Vedanta and Upanishad student, a spiritual seeker, and a former Area Director at Toastmasters International.

Her programmes are tuned to the emotional, physical, mental and spiritual growth of individuals, held together by a single conviction: every person carries the capacity to do better, and the work is to help them remember.

- Philosophy

Four pillars.
One steady practice.

The yog, written out. Each pillar holds the others. None is sufficient on its own.

i.

Consistency of vision

What you are working towards must remain the same on the loud days and the quiet ones.

ii.

Steadfastness to purpose

Why you are doing it, said plainly, repeated until it shapes your decisions without effort.

iii.

Honesty to goals

Numbers, milestones and timelines that don't lie to you when you fall short or run ahead.

iv.

Empathy to others

Without this, the other three become a sharper kind of selfishness.

When you breathe in, know that you are breathing in. When you breathe out, know that you are breathing out.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

- The practice

Eighteen years.
Forty institutions.
One room at a time.

2015 to Present

IMS Ghaziabad · University Courses Campus

Professor (2024–) and Associate Professor at the Career & Development Centre. A ten-year practice on a single campus.

2018 to Present

Symbiosis Law School, Pune · SIMS, NOIDA

Soft skills modules for students; Faculty Development Programmes on emotional intelligence and academic communication.

2023

Bureau of Police Research · J&K Police

Soft skills and grooming sessions for officers from Jammu and Kashmir, body language, persona, interpersonal skills for the field.

2023

Central Detective Training Institute

Self-awareness, personal profiling and interpersonal skills for police officers, Delhi NCR.

2018 to Present

BIMTECH · Symbiosis Institute of Management

Workshops on business writing, emotional intelligence and time management.

2019 to Present

Delhi University · Maharaja Agrasen College

Workshops on overcoming stage fright, public speaking and communication skills for undergraduates.

2009 to 2013

IMS Engineering College · IAMR

Assistant Professor at the Career & Development Centre, the early years of teaching.

1999 to 2005

The science years

Senior Research Fellow at IARI; trainee at TERI and the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad. PhD in Molecular and Plant Biotechnology, Delhi University.

- Education & certifications

A long apprenticeship
in knowing how.

Education

  • PhD · Molecular & Plant Biotechnology · Delhi University (2001–2005)
  • Masters in Biotechnology · Banasthali Vidyapith (1998–2000)
  • Diploma in Psychological Counseling · Indian Counseling Services (2025-2026)
  • Diploma in Training & Development · ISTD (2013–2015)

Published

  • IPR & Bioethics
  • Pearson, 2012
  • ISBN 9788131774700

Certified by

  • Thomas International, Personal Profiling & Emotional Intelligence Assessment
  • IIT Kanpur, Human Values & Professional Ethics
  • Middle Earth, Psychometric Test Professional
  • NPTEL, Personality & Soft-Skill Development
  • IHRD, Competency Mapping
  • Delhi Training Centre, Train the Trainer

Practice

  • Certified Yoga Instructor
  • Vedanta & Upanishad student
  • Nonviolent Communication
  • POSH Trainer

Past role

  • Area Director, Toastmasters International (2018–2019)

Languages

  • Hindi · Full Professional
  • English · Full Professional

Bring this practice
into your room.

A 30-minute conversation is the fastest way to know if Dr. Deepa is the right facilitator for your need. No pitch. No proposal until you ask.