- DisrupTV
DisrupTV is a weekly podcast with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. The audience can expect A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. Tweet questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. We broadcast live on StreamYard.
Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR
Featured Guests:
Ed Addison
Professor of the Practice at North Carolina State (AI150 Exec)
Edwin Addison joined NC State in 2011 as an adjunct professor. He has taught courses in entrepreneurship, product management, managerial Finance, electrical and biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence and computer science.
Dr. Scott Hutcheson, PhD
Author of Biohacking Leadership: Leveraging the Biology of Behavior to Maximize Your Impact
Scott Hutcheson is a biosocial scientist and senior lecturer at Purdue University. His teaching, research, and professional practice focuses on leadership, team, and organizational performance from a biology-of-behavior framework.
The biosocial sciences explore the dynamic interplay between biological systems and social behaviors and how they shape leadership, team, and organizational performance.
For over 30 years Scott has been helping current and future leaders design, manage, and strategically transform organizations and ecosystems to make them more adaptive, innovative, and competitive.
Scott has been engaged by over 500 organizations from industry, higher education, and the public and nonprofit sectors, from across the U.S. and internationally. He has worked with the White House, the Department of State, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, USDA, and other federal agencies in the design and execution of strategies and programs for managing complex challenges related to competitiveness, innovation, sustainability, and public health.
Scott designs and delivers courses and learning experiences that have a global reach. He's taught thousands of learners from over 140 countries.
Scott writes for academic journals, magazines, and newspapers. His most recent book, Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership was released in 2019 by Wiley. It became a #1 Amazon New Release in six different categories and appeared and on multiple lists as one of the Best Business Books of that year. Scott is currently working on a three-book series (also for Wiley) on the biodynamics of leadership, teams, and organizations. The first book in the series, Biohacking Leadership: Leveraging the Biology of Behavior to Maximize Your Impact will be released in 2025.
Scott is married to Lisa Hutcheson who works in mental health policy. They have two young-adult sons: Henry and Oliver. Both are Purdue students. The Hutchesons live near Indianapolis, Indiana in a 1932 Tudor Revival home in the historic Town of Ulen (pop. 117).
Ruchika T. Malhotra
Author of Uncompete: Rejecting Competition to Unlock Success
Ruchika T. Malhotra is the author of the upcoming book, Uncompete: Rejecting Competition To Unlock Success.
(November 4, 2025, Viking Books.)
Ruchika is also the founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy practice.
A former international business journalist, her writing has recently appeared in publications including The New York Times and Harvard Business Review.
She is a keynote speaker on leadership, workplace culture and the Uncompete™ framework.
Her last book, Inclusion on Purpose, was The MIT Press' top selling book of 2022 and called "transformative" by Dr. Brené Brown.
