A facilitator at heart. Rucha is passionate about making meetings and workshops engaging, creative, and truly effective. As a co-founder of FailForward Conferences, She has championed conversations on importance of failure, physiological safety and innovation in workplaces multiple locations globally. With over 15 years of experience in software and product development, She is a leader in Business Analysis and Agile methodologies and currently she heads the External DEI Data team at Springer Nature. Having shared her insights at various conferences, her speaking engagements cover a spectrum of topics, including Facilitation, FailForward, Business Analysis, Agile methodologies, DEI/Allyship and Researcher diversity.