Ruchika Tulshyan

Ruchika Tulshyan is an award-winning inclusion strategist who is deeply passionate about designing equitable workplaces. Through her company, Candour, she advises companies on diversity, equity & inclusion strategy and communications. Ruchika is known for her intersectional and data-driven approach.

She is a keynote speaker who has addressed audiences at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pixar, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, U.S. Congress and more.

Ruchika's book, "The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality in the Workplace" focuses on leadership strategies to advance women at work. Her second book "Inclusion on Purpose" will be published by MIT Press in February 2022.

Ruchika is known for leveraging her deep expertise in communications to create a common language around diversity, equity, inclusion and intersectionality.

Ruchika writes regularly for the New York Times and Harvard Business Review on workplace equity. A former journalist, she is now often quoted in media including The New York Times, NPR and Bloomberg.

In 2019, Ruchika was named to the Thinkers50 "On the Radar" list. She was also named to a list of Most Influential D&I leaders in 2019 and 2020.

A Singaporean foodie, Ruchika currently calls Seattle home.