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Deepa Purushothaman | |
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| Education | Harvard Kennedy School (MPP); London School of Economics (MSc) |
| Occupations | Business executive, author, researcher |
| Years active | 1990s–present |
Deepa Purushothaman is an American business executive, author, and leadership researcher on workplace culture.
Purushothaman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Philosophy from Wellesley College. She studied Development Economics at the London School of Economics, where she earned a Master of Science degree. She later completed a Master in Public Policy (MPP) at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Deepa Purushothaman joined Deloitte in 1999 as a senior consultant and became a partner at the age of 34. She also served as National Managing Partner for WIN, Deloitte’s Women’s Initiative. She left Deloitte in May 2020.
In 2020, Purushothaman co-founded nFormation. Purushothaman and her co-founder closed nFormation in 2024.
Purushothaman later founded the re.write, a think tank studying women and work.
Since September 2022, Purushothaman has served as an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. In 2026, Harvard Business School published the case study Deepa Purushothaman: Rewriting the Rules of Ambition, Power, and Success, written by Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag.
Purushothaman is the author of The First, The Few, The Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America, published by Harper Business in 2022. She is also a contributor to Next-Level Negotiating, part of the Harvard Business Review Women at Work series.