Dr. Sumati Ahuja is the program director of the Digital Creative Enterprise major at the UTS Business School. Sumati is an academic with an impressive background of working in industry for over 25 years and teaching in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs for over 10 years. Her experience as an architect, educator and researcher condenses a unique trans-disciplinary orientation across the fields of Design, Innovation and Management. Sumati applies her considerable knowledge of creative thinking and practices in the design and delivery of her undergraduate and executive education courses at the UTS Business School.

Sumati's trans-disciplinarity underpins her research interests. Her research examines the changing world of work; how technology is changing the work of human experts and the impact of these changes on workers' and their emotional well being. She uses design perspectives to explore the value of design to business and social enterprise and how design-led innovation can be leveraged across a wide range of private and public sector organisations. Her work appears in leading international, peer reviewed journals and has been internationally recognised. Her research continues to influence practitioner communities through engagements with industry partners that have led to beneficial outcomes for partner organisations through improved strategies and practices that drive both business and societal change.

Sumati's PhD focused on the changing nature of professional work and explored the implications for the future of expert work. She is Winner of the UTS Business School Research Award (2022) for Early career researchers (ECRs), finalist in the prestigious international Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award (2019) for most innovative PhD research in management and organization studies and winner, Best Paper Award for Journal of Professions and Organizations (2017) . Sumati was nominated for the UTS Medal of Excellence in Teaching and Research (2020).