Mini has worked in the industry in business development and marketing for over 3 years and spent about 19 years in academics, specifically training and teaching in the area of Retail Management. She has been instrumental in introducing the one-year PG programmes in Retail at MICA, and conducted six batches of the programmes at MICA. She has worked in the domain of Retail Management for the last twenty years, published several book chapters and conference papers, and conducted several management development programmes and PG programmes in the domain. A few organizations where she conducted training included the Indian oil corporation, Philips Lighting, Trent Ltd, Hypercity, Crosswords, and Jade Blue. She pioneered a unique pedagogy, ‘Retail Yatra’ a field study in the retail programmes. She was instrumental in setting up ‘Centre for Sales and CRM’ and co-chairing it for few years.
She had worked in the medical industry developing markets for imported foldable lenses and third generation antibiotics amongst superspecialist medical practitioners. Before MICA, she had worked with E-city entertainment in developing and conducting their training module for 300 + field staff engaged in retail of various categories. She has conducted sessions on Retail Management, Store Design, Layout and Visual Merchandising, Sales and Distribution Management, and Merchandise Management as visiting faculty at National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Gandhinagar, MANAGE, Hyderabad, IMIS – Bhubaneswar, RAU- Bikaner, BHU- Varanasi, and EDI, Gandhinagar, SLIMS, and many other management institutes.