Ruchika T. Malhotra is the author of Inclusion on Purpose and the founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy practice. A former international business journalist, she now contributes regularly to Harvard Business Review. 

She is writing her next book, Uncompete: Dismantling a Competition Mindset to Unlock Liberation, Opportunity, and Peace (Penguin, 2025.)

She has previously held adjunct faculty positions in Communication at University of Washington and Seattle University, where she was Distinguished Professional-in-Residence. 

Ruchika holds a BSc. from London School of Economics and M.S. from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.