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Ruchika Tulshyan is an award-winning inclusion strategist, keynote speaker, and founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy firm. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Harvard Business Review and The New York Times.
Known for: Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work
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Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work
Many workplaces celebrate diversity in theory while reproducing exclusion in practice. In Inclusion on Purpose, Ruchika Tulshyan argues that this gap exists because organizations often treat diversity as a numbers exercise and inclusion as a vague aspiration, rather than as a deliberate system of behavior, policy, and accountability. The book offers a practical and morally grounded framework for building workplaces where people, especially those from historically marginalized groups, can contribute fully without having to shrink themselves, assimilate, or silently absorb bias. Tulshyan brings unusual authority to the subject. As a strategist, speaker, and founder who has worked at the intersection of leadership, equity, and workplace culture, she combines research, personal experience, and stories from professionals across identities and industries. Her central contribution is the insistence that inclusion must be intersectional: people do not experience work only through gender or race or class, but through the combined realities of multiple identities. That insight changes how leaders diagnose problems and design solutions. This book matters because it moves the conversation beyond performative commitments and toward concrete choices that create trust, fairness, and genuine belonging at work.
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Inclusion Requires Intention, Not Good Intentions
A workplace does not become inclusive because its leaders mean well; it becomes inclusive because they design it that way. One of the book’s most important insights is that good intentions often mask harmful outcomes. Leaders may believe they are fair, open-minded, and supportive, yet still uphold h...
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Intersectionality Reveals What Single Categories Miss
People do not live one identity at a time, and workplaces should stop pretending they do. Tulshyan centers intersectionality, a framework that helps explain how overlapping identities such as race, gender, class, disability, immigration status, sexuality, and caregiving shape a person’s experience o...
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Belonging Begins When People Stop Self-Erasing
A strong culture is not one where everyone fits in; it is one where people do not need to edit themselves to survive. Tulshyan distinguishes between inclusion and belonging in a way that feels especially powerful. Inclusion is being invited into the room and able to participate. Belonging is the dee...
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Bias Lives in Systems, Not Individuals Alone
Bias is often discussed as if it were merely a personal flaw, but Tulshyan shows that its greatest power comes from the systems that normalize it. This is a crucial shift. If organizations frame inequity only as the result of a few bad actors, they miss the routine processes that repeatedly produce ...
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Leadership Must Share Power, Not Optics
Representation matters, but representation without power can become a performance. Tulshyan argues that many organizations want the appearance of diversity more than the reality of shared influence. They recruit underrepresented talent, feature them in public-facing materials, or invite them to comm...
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Psychological Safety Needs Structural Support
People cannot speak up consistently in environments where honesty feels risky. Tulshyan highlights psychological safety as essential to inclusion, but she does not treat it as a soft or accidental quality. Safety is built through repeated signals that dissent, vulnerability, and truth-telling will n...
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About Ruchika Tulshyan
Ruchika Tulshyan is an award-winning inclusion strategist, keynote speaker, and founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy firm. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Harvard Business Review and The New York Times. She is recognized globally for her work on equity, leadership, and creating...
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Ruchika Tulshyan is an award-winning inclusion strategist, keynote speaker, and founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy firm. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Harvard Business Review and The New York Times. She is recognized globally for her work on equity, leadership, and creating...
Ruchika Tulshyan is an award-winning inclusion strategist, keynote speaker, and founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy firm. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Harvard Business Review and The New York Times. She is recognized globally for her work on equity, leadership, and creating inclusive workplaces.
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