Ruchika T. Malhotra
National Bestselling Author, Inclusion Strategist, Culture Transformation Expert
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Ruchika T. Malhotra is the author of the national bestseller Uncompete Rejecting Competition to Unlock Success and Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work.
She’s also the founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy practice. A former international business journalist, Ruchika has written for publications including The New York Times and Harvard Business Review.
Over 300,000 learners have learned from her first LinkedIn Learning course, “Moving DEI from Intention to Impact.”
Ruchika is honored to be a LinkedIn Top Voice for Gender Equality and selected to Thinkers50 Radar. In 2022, she received the Jeanette Williams Award from Seattle Women’s Commission for her work on advancing gender equality in the region.
Ruchika is an active investor in various women-founded ventures.
She was previously adjunct faculty in Communications at University of Washington (UW) and Seattle University, and now serves on the advisory board for the Communication Leadership graduate program at UW. Ruchika holds degrees from London School of Economics and Columbia University.
