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for keynotes, workshops & facilitations, interviews, media appearances, and more

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

– His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama

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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 court rooms, board rooms, voting booths, and beyond.

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

Speaking Topics

Signature Talks

  • Breaking Bias: Skills to Promote Racial Equity, Wellness & Wellbeing

    Building a culture of antiracism, wellness, and wellbeing improves performance, reduces implicit bias, and builds productivity for teams in any industry – from healthcare, law, and tech to the nonprofit sector.

  • Mindful Embodiment To Restore Our Connection to Ourselves and One Another

    Three no-cost tools to break our internalized limitations and restore connection with our bodies, hearts, and minds, as well as one another, across similarities and differences.

  • Two Sides of the Same Coin: Racial Equity & Wellness

    DEIB, mental health, and burnout are interconnected – and come with financial and social costs.

  • The Promise of Breaking Bias

    Learn to discern the difference between conscious and unconscious bias and understand what we save financially and socially by breaking bias with five PRISM Tools.

Custom Keynotes

In addition to my signature talks, I am available for custom keynotes based on topics in my book: Bias in AI, Addressing Mental Health and Suicidality, Climate Crisis and Bias, Transforming Racial and Caste Hierarchies in the US and Beyond, Being an Ally for Women’s and/or LGBTQ+ Equality, and Healing from the Trauma of Bias, and more. Please reach out to my team for more information. All sessions are interactive, embodied, and rooted in neuroscience.

Who is Anu, anyway?

Hi! I’m Anu, and I wrote my 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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PR Contact

Lindsay McGinty
lmcginty@hayhouse.com

General Inquiries

Caroline Horste
info@bemorewithanu.com

  • “Anu Gupta gives us a clear view of how bias takes root in society, ranging from the beginnings of written history to the realities of the modern world. He invites us on an inner journey, to take our own beliefs and hold them up to the light. Breaking Bias will radically shift your perspective on the power structures around you while drawing you a new map of the world. This book inspires change and creates a new vision where isolation and exclusion can be replaced by connection and belonging.”

    Deepa Purushothaman, best-selling author of The First, The Few, The Only, executive fellow at Harvard Business School, and retired managing partner at Deloitte

  • “Anu Gupta explores crises of human interrelationality at the level of the soul: questions that prompt deep reflection, and offer avenues for even deeper relationships. Doing so as a friend, a teacher, and a scientist, his approach is one that envisions flourishing for all. This helpful and necessary book is a balm.”

    Pádraig Ó Tuama, host of Poetry Unbound from On Being Studios and author of Poetry Unbound

  • “Anu Gupta is a professional bias breaker. He’s brought his wisdom to more than 80,000 people around the world from all walks of life. Yes, he’s a master teacher. Yes, he will expertly guide readers through a breadth of impressive knowledge and actionable steps rooted in neuroscience to unlearn and break bias. But most importantly, Anu is an unfailingly kind friend who genuinely wants the best for all of us. How lucky are we to have Breaking Bias in our hands?”

    Barbara Becker, author of Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • “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

  • “Breaking Bias is a triumph! Anu Gupta has developed an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand how contemporary social, ethnic, cultural, gendered, religious and anthropocentric biases came into being, how they spread, and how to break through them! In this book, Gupta offers a comprehensive historical overview of bias with clear articulations of how bias shapes inequity in social organizational, national and international policies. This book is a must read!”

    Dr. Kamilah Majied, author of Joyfully Just: Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights For Liberated Living

  • “With brilliant prose and infinite grace, Anu Gupta’s Breaking Bias invites every single one of us to look in the mirror and marvel at what we see. Then, go out into the world and challenge the notions that stand in the way of our ability to look at one another and do the very same. With sacred practices, thoughtful data and a deep reverence for life, Breaking Bias helps us bring greater understanding to the learned and often painful attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that separate us from ourselves and each other. We can do better. And this timely and crucial book shows us the way.”

    Rha Goddess, founder & CEO of Move The Crowd and author of The Calling