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Ruchika T. Malhotra
Creating cultures built on collaboration, solidarity and generosity.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
#1 AMAZON BESTSELLER
A THINKERS50 TOP 10 PICK
un•com•pete™
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the belief that success for all comes from choosing abundance and collaboration, while intentionally rejecting competition.
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"Enlightening… eye-opening… this will help readers rethink the idea that life is a zero-sum game.”
— Publishers Weekly
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Workplace Culture Expert
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Ruchika T. Malhotra is the author of the national bestseller, Uncompete: Rejecting Competition To Unlock Success.
(November 4, 2025, Viking Books.)
Inquire for her to speak at your organization here.
Ruchika is also the founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy practice.
A former international business journalist, her writing has recently appeared in publications including The New York Times and Harvard Business Review.
She is a keynote speaker on leadership, workplace culture and the Uncompete™ framework.
Her last book, Inclusion on Purpose, was The MIT Press' top selling book of 2022 and called "transformative" by Dr. Brené Brown.
"...Malhotra helps us reconnect to our communities and ourselves.”
— Ijeoma Oluo
Author of So You Want to Talk About Race
"Malhotra has given the world an extraordinary gift. This isn't just a book; it's the beginning of a movement..."
—Amy Gallo
Author of Getting Along
“Uncompete is a powerful and deeply resonant manifesto for those of us who are exhausted by hustle culture..."
— Uché Blackstock, MD
Author of Legacy
"Uncompete names what so many of us feel but rarely say aloud: that constant competition isn’t making us better, it’s actually making us sick."
— Pooja Lakshmin, MD
Author of Real Self-Care
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