Rahuldeep Gill, Ph.D., is a sought-after speaker, author, and igniter, whose life goal is to develop effective and heartful leaders with broad perspectives to drive innovation. His presentations examine growing up Sikh in America and Sikhs and the global community as well as intercultural leadership and leadership development. Through his lectures and workshops, he works to build pluralism and cross-cultural relations, inspiring connected communities on campus, in the workplace, and in the marketplace.

Dr. Gill has spoken before diverse audiences of all sizes at campus and community events nationwide. He addresses how connected communities are in the vanguard of social justice. In his talks, he takes his audience through a series of conversations and exercises to help them understand what it means to have organizational change and heartful leadership development. He has been described as “a public intellectual who seems to be extremely comfortable with engaging in inter-faith contexts” and “a beautiful writer and eloquent speaker.”

The Los Angeles Times, Patheos.com, Huffington Post, and San Francisco Chronicle have published his writings, and he blogs for LinkedIn.com. He recently published his first book, Drinking from Love’s Cup (Oxford University Press), and is currently writing two more books about leadership and pluralism.

A native of the Boston area, Dr. Gill earned his bachelors, with Honors, from the University of Rochester in New York and doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Gill helped raise over one million dollars as the past Director for the Center for Equality and Justice (CEJ) at California Lutheran University. He is still a tenured faculty member and Campus Interfaith Strategist at Cal Lutheran, and is the visiting professor of Sikh Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He has twice been voted Cal Lutheran's Diversity Professor of the Year and lives in Los Angeles with his family.