Ritu Bhasin

What happens when employees—who come from increasingly diverse backgrounds—hide their best selves at work? There is a bottom-line consequence: conformity spreads, innovation stagnates, and top talent leaves. Ritu Bhasin is an energetic speaker who champions authentic leadership as the antidote to exclusionary work cultures, and shows you how to build more engaged, inclusive, and productive teams and environments.

Successful companies know that authenticity is everything. As a leadership and inclusion consultant, Ritu Bhasin gets this. She works to build cultural competence and accountability in the workplace—and shows how productivity, engagement, and satisfaction are natural byproducts of people bringing their authentic selves to work. As President of leadership and inclusion firm Bhasin Consulting inc., she coaches C-Suite leaders, executives, and diverse professionals on leveraging their differences for success. And as a global speaker, she challenges others to take ownership of their role in addressing racism and discrimination—and is a passionate champion of authentic leadership as a path to empowerment and success.

After years of this work, Bhasin discovered an undeniable relationship between inclusion and authenticity, which is the focus of her newly released book, The Authenticity Principle. It also includes insights from Bhasin’s work as a yoga and mindfulness instructor—a practice she credits as being a key pillar of building personal and professional joy.

Bhasin has received numerous awards for her commitment to social change, including the IndoCanadian Chamber of Commerce Female Professional of the Year Award, the City of Toronto William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations, and Western University’s Young Alumni Award.

Before founding Bhasin Consulting inc., Bhasin was a practicing lawyer, and the director of legal talent at a preeminent Canadian law firm. She earned an MBA from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and an LL.B. (With Distinction) from the University of Western Ontario, and she has served as an instructor in the Executive Program at the Rotman School of Management.