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

– His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama

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Signature Talks

Breaking Bias: Our Work of the 21st Century

Unconscious 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 strategies and mindfulness-based approaches. Audiences will leave with practical tools to foster inclusion and belonging 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 inclusive 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.

Rewiring Media, Rewiring Minds

Media shapes the way we see the world—and ourselves. This talk unpacks how media narratives influence bias, identity, and mental health, while offering strategies to become more mindful consumers and creators of content.

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.

Please reach out to my team for more information. All sessions are interactive, embodied, and rooted in neuroscience.

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?

Hi! I’m Anu, and I wrote my award-winning, best-selling book, Breaking Bias, as the culmination of my life’s work building a Beloved Community.

Breaking Bias is one of the few books that go beyond examining the history of bias to offer actual training in how to reduce bias, and it’s the only one written by an author with my unique intersectional identities: a gay brown immigrant with Buddhist, Christian, and Hindu roots who is also an American lawyer and scholar of bias with lived experiences that span the globe.

More Info & Press Contacts

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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