Mita Mallick
Mita Mallick is a corporate change-maker with a track record of transforming businesses
and cultures. Mita is a passionate storyteller who believes in the power of diversity to
spur creative strategic thinking which can ultimately transform brands.
As the Head of Diversity & Inclusion and Cross-Cultural Marketing at Unilever, Mita’s
efforts to build an inclusive culture are being celebrated. Under her leadership, Unilever
is gender-balanced at manager level and above. Unilever was named the #1 Company
for Working Mothers by Working Mother Media in 2018. Mita also co-created the first of
its kind Cultural Immersions series to increase the cultural competency of marketers
training over 5,000 marketers to date.
Mita has had an extensive career in the beauty and consumer products goods space.
She was one of the chief lieutenants in launching The Vaseline Healing Project in the
U.S., signing award-winning actress & activist Viola Davis as the brand’s ambassador to
help set the brand back to growth.
Mita was named a Working Mother of the Year by She Runs It and named a Valiente
Award Finalist at SXSW for her inspiring work in 2019. Mita has been featured in
Forbes and quoted in The New York Times. She received the Inaugural Diversity
Innovator Award from the National Association for Female Executives in 2018, and was
on the “50 People Under 40 Shaking Up Beauty” Youthquake List by Women’s Wear
Daily. Mita is also a columnist for Swaay and a contributor for FairyGodBoss and her
writing has been published in the New York Post, Cosmopolitan, Entrepreneur,
The Good Men Project, Scary Mommy, and The Riveter.
Mita has a B.A. from Columbia University and a M.B.A. from Duke University.