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As an award-winning author, lawyer, scientist, and educator, I help individuals and organizations bridge divides and build trust using mindfulness-based tools.

Join the movement of over 300 organizations and 100,000+ people who are applying Breaking Bias® to enhance performance, build trust, and create lasting impact across teams, industries, and communities.

Want a free taste of our mindfulness-based approach? Take Intro to Breaking Bias Foundations and start your journey today.

For Individuals

Learn science-backed, mindfulness-based practices to heal from bias, trauma, and disconnection so you can experience trust, safety, and belonging in every area of life.

For Organizations

Help your teams strengthen trust, foster psychological safety, and bridge divides with science-backed mindfulness tools—driving performance and profitability.

Speaking

Invite Anu to deliver high-impact keynotes, customized workshops, or interactive experiences that engage audiences of any size and drive meaningful change.

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Bias is a learned habit—leading to trillions in lost productivity, missed opportunities, and human suffering. The good news? It can be unlearned.

Breaking Bias® is our National Science Foundation (NSF) funded, mindfulness-based approach to unlearning bias and creating lasting behavior change.

We’ve brought Breaking Bias® to over 300 organizations and 100,000+ professionals in healthcare, law, technology, finance, higher ed, and non-profits, including Google, American Medical Association, Kaiser Permanente, Janssen, HSBC, Feeding America, NYU, Northwestern, and beyond.

Our unique, mindfulness-based approach has been featured in Harvard Business Review, SHRM, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, and the American Lawyer.

Some benefits of our research-backed approach:

Measurable change

Measurable behavioral change, i.e., return on investment!

Trauma informed approach

Trauma-informed approach to foster psychological safety and team buy-in.

CL CE requirements

Dedicated Client Success Manager (CSM) for an easy, deployment.

Dedicated client success

Resource-rich content that fulfills CLE, CE, CME requirements.

Start Your Breaking Bias® Journey Today!

If humans can imagine colonizing Mars, why not imagine living on Earth without bias?

In a world fractured by polarization, disconnection, and unregulated AI, our personal and collective wellbeing is at risk. I wrote Breaking Bias to meet this moment, offering science-backed, mindfulness-based tools to heal division and reimagine a future where all belong.

“I commend the author and hope this book would help people to come closer to one another through breaking biases.” - His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from the Forward to Breaking Bias

Breaking Bias is endorsed by leading scientists, scholars, business leaders, and advocates like Dr. Janet Dewart Bell, Danielle Conway, Valarie Kaur, Dan Harris, Sebene Selassie, Rev. Jacqui Lewis, Sharon Salzberg, Tara Brach, and Dr. Judson Brewer, and featured in TIME, PEOPLE, Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper, the Next Big Idea Club and 30+ podcasts. 

Praise for Breaking Bias

  • “I commend the author and hope this book will help people to come closer to one another through breaking biases on the basis of secondary differences like race, religion, rich or poor that divide us.”

    His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism

  • “Your biases can hurt other people, but they can also hurt you. They can damage your relationships and degrade your decision-making. But the good news is: they’re not your fault, and they can be addressed. Anu is the perfect guide to transform all biases in the modern world.”

    Dan Harris, New York Times best-selling Author of 10% Happier and host of the Ten Percent Happier Podcast

  • “Masterful, practical, and wise, Breaking Bias is essential reading….Learn how to dismantle systems of oppression, embrace the worth of all beings, and build a world of belonging...This book will inspire you to a life of Revolutionary Love. Anu Gupta is a guiding light, and this book is his radiant offering.”

    Valarie Kaur, best-selling author of See No Stranger and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project

  • “Evolving beyond the biases that separate us is the core task of humanity if we are to meet the existential challenges that face us…Breaking Bias offers a powerful set of mindfulness-based tools to help us dismantle conscious and unconscious bias and repair the horrific harms it has caused. This timely book is a beacon of hope in our precious, hurting world.”

    Tara Brach, PhD, best-selling author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge

  • “Learning to see and understand bias is deeply important for our world, especially now. Breaking Bias is a valuable and illuminating curriculum that will help not only with understanding bias, but also ending it.”

    Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

  • “Compassionate, vulnerable, and mind-expanding, Breaking Bias is a powerful guidebook to deepen our understanding of bias and how to break the cycle…Anu sparks individual awakening for collective change. This book is an invitation to join the movement towards a world celebrating our diversity and honoring our inherent belonging.”

    Sharon Salzberg, best-selling author of Lovingkindness and Real Life

  • “Breaking Bias uniquely captured me and would not let me go…Anu's kindness accompanies the reader on a journey informed by the depth and breadth of his experience, research, wisdom, compassion and hope…A must read for all who yearn for a more just society.”

    Rev. Jacqui Lewis, PhD, Senior Minister for Public Theology and Transformation at Middle Collegiate Church and author of Fierce Love

  • “Anu Gupta’s Breaking Bias is a tour de force! Part history lesson, part personal science experiment, part toolkit, this book brings together deep wisdom with practical skills to help us all learn how to move out of our conditioned biases and into a new, more connected way of relating to each other. A must read!”

    Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, New York Times best-selling author of Unwinding Anxiety and The Craving Mind

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    Anu's book, Breaking Bias, available at all major retailers

    Breaking Bias features a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and endorsements from leading scientists, teachers, and advocates.

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  • Read Press Coverage about Anu and Breaking Bias

    Anu and Breaking Bias have been featured in People, Time, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Inc., Tricycle, national and global podcasts, and more.

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  • Anu's TED Talk reveals the economic, social, and emotional costs of bias

    Anu argues that breaking unconscious biases will alleviate human suffering and also contribute to our economy.

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    Anu with Isabel Wilkerson on The Oprah Conversation

    Anu discusses with Oprah and author Isabel Wilkerson ways we can dismantle the racial caste system in the 21st century.

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