Dr. N. Mythili is currently working as Assistant Professor at the National Centre for School Leadership, NIEPA. She has been leading research and discourse on School Leadership, and gender and school leadership in Indian context through her research monographs and peer-reviewed articles published in international and national journals. Her recent works include ‘Women in School Leadership’ published by Sage and ‘Pedagogical Leadership: A handbook for leading learning in Schools’. The handbook on Pedagogical Leadership defines school leadership in Indian context and explores the process of leading schools by principals in Indian context. This book is being used to redefine the roles of principals as pedagogical leaders taking a shift from administrative roles in all schools affiliated to CBSE (India and Abroad), NVS and KVS.

She is also deeply involved in large scale implementation and training of School Leadership Development Programmes (SLDP) through Ministry of Education, India. At NCSL, she is the national coordinator for following states on school leadership development- Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Goa, Kerala and Manipur. She is a member of the National Resource Group for NISHTHA programme launched by MoE in collaboration with national level organizations, such as NCERT and NIEPA. She completed her Ph.D. from the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, Karnataka in 2006. Before joining NCSL, she has worked at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Azim Premji Foundation, Bengaluru, and Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Development Research, Dharwad, Karnataka.