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“I identify myself with his approach…and commend the author”

– His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama

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Speaking Topics

Anu has delivered hundreds of high-impact keynotes to audiences of a few dozen to thousands, including at TED, SxSW, Google, Feeding America, IHI, the United Nations, US Department of Treasury, B Lab, DWT, OutLeadership, the Trevor Project, and beyond. As a servant leader, he approaches speaking opportunities as an experience that leaves audiences feeling inspired to be the change and lead by example.

Signature Talks

Breaking Bias: Our Work of the 21st Century

Bias shapes our lives in ways we often don’t realize. This talk explores how we can dismantle bias—individually and collectively—using science-backed, somatically informed, mindfulness-based approaches. Audiences will leave with practical tools to foster trust and psychological safety in their workplaces, communities, and everyday interactions.

Repairing the Breach: Lessons to Unite Humanity

In an era of division, what does it take to heal? Drawing from history, neuroscience, and contemplative wisdom, this talk offers a roadmap for bridging divides, fostering deep connection, and co-creating a future where everyone can rise.

Beyond Diversity: Building High-Impact, Bias-Free Teams

What makes a team truly effective? Beyond skills and strategy, the key lies in psychological safety, bias awareness, and transformational leadership. This session equips organizations with the tools to cultivate trust, foster innovation, and create teams that thrive together.

Hope in Action: Turning Inspiration into Lasting Change

Hope isn’t just a feeling—it’s a practice. This talk explores how individuals and organizations can move beyond inspiration to implement tangible, lasting social change. Using real-world examples, Anu shares a blueprint for transforming hope into action.

Tailored Talks & Custom Sessions

Looking for something specific? We tailor sessions to meet the unique needs of organizations, conferences, and communities.

Explore More:
🎙 Featured Podcasts – Listen to Anu on Dan Harris’ 10% Happier, Sharon Salzberg’s Metta Hour, and Aspen Institute’s Wisdom and Practice.
▶ YouTube Playlist – Watch Anu’s most impactful talks and workshops here.

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Story Hooks

  • The case for a bias-free world: if we can imagine colonizing Mars, we can imagine living on Earth without bias.

  • Biases are learned and can be unlearned using the PRISM Toolkit: Perspective-taking, pRosocial behaviors, Individuation, Stereotype replacement, and Mindfulness.

  • Bias is the building block of most challenges — AI, policing, representation in Hollywood, product design, and bullying. Bias hinders the success of policy solutions.

  • How checking “other” on the race question led me to discover how race became a global system of human ranking in less than 500 years.

  • How losing to a girl in arm-wrestling led me to question the gender hierarchy and uncover the development of the gender hierarchy globally.

  • Teaching about antisemitism was my entry into breaking bias and combating antisemitism, racism, sexism, and all other -isms and -phobias.

  • The case for channeling capitalism to breaking bias: racial bias alone costs the US $2 trillion annually. Imagine the wasted time, resources, and human potential globally.

  • Unpacking the five causes of bias and the five solutions to bias to transform polarization in your family, community, workplace, and even inside your head.

  • How understanding the four forms of bias can help make better decisions in courtrooms, board rooms, voting booths, and beyond.

  • As the election looms, the PRISM tools can help mitigate political polarization and encourage conversations between not around.

Who is Anu, anyway?

Anu Gupta is an award-winning author, educator, lawyer, scientist, and mindfulness teacher. His bestselling book, Breaking Bias (2024), features a foreword from the Dalai Lama and offers mindfulness-based tools to heal from bias, trauma, and disconnection.

As a queer immigrant of color, he came to the work of Breaking Bias® after almost ending his life due to lifelong experiences with racism, homophobia, and Islamophobia. The realization that bias is learned and can be unlearned helped lead him out of that dark point. Through his work, Anu envisions an Earth where humans awaken to their interdependence and cultivate the wisdom and compassion needed to dismantle bias, bigotry, and polarization.

Anu has lived, studied, and worked globally, which informs his unique perspective on how different forms of biases – whether they are race, gender, ethnicity, religion, or class-based – use the same neural mechanism to create inequities and inefficiencies in different organizational and cultural contexts. A peer-reviewed author, Anu founded BE MORE in 2014 to apply existing science to tackle disconnection, hatred, and division caused by bias.

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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