Ritika Strauss is a communications architect, systems strategist, and narrative-builder. She’s trained as a data engineer, information designer, martial artist, and writer.

She is an expert in first-principles thinking with a professional journey that spans startups, enterprises, nonprofits, and venture funds. A pioneer in the content marketing field, she helped shape the discipline’s early foundations by writing books and establishing best practices. Over time, her focus evolved to designing and scaling story-based experiments for enterprise and government innovation efforts.

Today, she focuses on some of humanity’s most urgent priorities: deploying AI with integrity, expanding funding access to R&D, accelerating the introduction of new energy sources to our built environment, protecting our web of life, and helping young people feel motivated to learn. Known for her operational precision and ability to deliver on outcomes, she gravitates towards extremely challenging problems that often require an issues and crisis management lens.

As a writer, her insights have reached millions of people. As a strategist, she helps leaders elevate their message and presence. She’s contributed to over a dozen cross-sector innovation initiatives and helped guide more than $1B in capital toward industry-defining ventures. She possesses a consistent ability to unlock hidden pathways and bring stability to chaos.