2026 Step Up KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Morning KEYNOTE: Ruchicka T. Malhotra,
national bestseller | founder & ceo | business journalist

Join us for an electrifying keynote session with Ruchicka T. Malhotra.

 Ruchika T. Malhotra is the author of Uncompete: Rejecting Competition to Unlock Success. She is also the founder of Candour, a global inclusion strategy firm. A former business journalist, her writing appears regularly in publications such as Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, The Seattle Times, and more. She has previously held adjunct faculty positions at Seattle University and the University of Washington, where she now advises the Communication Leadership graduate program.

Ruchika is the author of Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work, MIT Press’s top-selling book of 2022.

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