Melbourne Business School

After completing her PhD in 2012 at the University of Central Florida, Deshani joined the faculty of Australian National University’s Research School of Management. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School and the School of Arts and Sciences in 2015.

Deshani joined MBS in 2017 and teaches Managing People and Negotiation on the full-time and part-time MBA programs. She also teaches a variety of associated programs, including Online New Leadership Program and the Advanced Management Program. Deshani won the Deans' Excellence Award for Service to MBS for her work as the PhD Program Director.

Deshani’s research has been featured in the Australian Financial Review. Her research centres on the general topics of behavioural ethics, organisational justice, negotiation, and workplace deviance. Her research has been published in Journal of Applied Psychology, Organisational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Organisational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Human Relations, and Personnel Review. She has presented over 20 refereed conference papers and published five non-refereed book chapters.