Anu’s Speaking & Teaching

Keynotes, workshops, retreats, and learning experiences for wellbeing, ethical leadership, and human flourishing.

I’m Anu Gupta, an author, speaker, attorney, and interspiritual wellness teacher who helps people and institutions cultivate clarity, compassion, courage, and connection in a rapidly changing world.

Drawing from neuroscience, contemplative practice, interspiritual wisdom, law, and social impact leadership, I offer talks and learning experiences that are practical, restorative, and transformative.

My work supports leaders, students, professionals, and communities navigating stress, burnout, uncertainty, fragmentation, technological change, and the need for deeper human connection.

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Why Invite Anu?

I offer a rare and timely voice at the intersection of science, spirituality, leadership, and social change.

As the author of the award-winning Breaking Bias, founder of two social enterprises, a trained attorney, and a longtime meditation teacher, I bring intellectual rigor, contemplative depth, and practical tools to every room he enters.

My talks do more than inform. They help audiences slow down, reflect, reconnect, and leave with practices they can apply immediately in their personal and professional lives.

I’m especially skilled at meeting audiences across sectors — from law schools and leadership conferences to corporations, healthcare institutions, retreat centers, universities, faith communities, and social impact organizations.

Audiences leave with greater awareness, steadiness, compassion, and agency.

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Signature Keynotes

My talks can be offered as keynotes, fireside chats, lectures, conference sessions, workshops, retreats, or multi-session learning experiences.

Soul Force for a Fractured Age

How do we cultivate the inner courage and collective wisdom needed to meet the future with compassion, clarity, and care? In this keynote, I explore moral imagination, contemplative practice, and human flourishing in an age of disruption and overlapping crises.

Interspiritual Wellness for Modern Life

Drawing from Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, and other contemplative traditions, I introduce interspiritual wellness as a path for reconnecting with the body, the heart, the mind, and the larger web of life.

The Connected Mind: The Science of Human Flourishing

In a time of distraction, loneliness, and disconnection, I share science-backed and contemplative practices that help people reclaim attention, regulate stress, strengthen compassion, and restore connection.

Moral Imagination for the Future

A future-facing talk on how leaders and communities can cultivate wisdom, courage, and care in response to AI, technological disruption, social fragmentation, ecological crisis, and rapid change.

Ethical Leadership in a Rapidly Changing World

What does it mean to lead with integrity, clarity, and moral courage amid uncertainty, polarization, and technological disruption? This talk helps leaders cultivate the inner capacities needed for wise and compassionate action.

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Workshops & Learning Experiences

I design interactive sessions that combine teaching, storytelling, reflection, meditation, dialogue, and practical tools.

These experiences can be customized for:

  • Conferences and leadership gatherings

  • Corporate teams and employee communities

  • Universities and higher education settings

  • Healthcare institutions

  • Social impact and philanthropic organizations

  • Faith, dharma, and spiritual communities

  • Retreat centers and wellness gatherings

  • Law schools, law firms, and legal organizations

Workshops can focus on mindfulness, stress regulation, ethical leadership, dialogue, interspiritual wellness, compassion, belonging, decision-making, or human flourishing.

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Law Schools, Law Firms & Legal Organizations

As an attorney, educator, and longtime meditation teacher, I work with law schools, law firms, and legal organizations to support wellbeing, resilience, ethical leadership, and grounded decision-making in high-pressure environments.

My legal programs help students, lawyers, faculty, and legal professionals cultivate the inner resources needed to navigate stress, performance anxiety, perfectionism, uncertainty, criticism, conflict, and the demands of high-achieving environments.

For Law Schools

I offer orientation sessions, lectures, workshops, and multi-session programs that support law students in developing confidence, resilience, emotional regulation, and sustainable practices for success.

Topics include:

  • Managing stress, anxiety, and overwhelm

  • Building confidence and compassionate self-regard

  • Navigating cold-calling and performance pressure

  • Supporting decision-making and exam preparation

  • Developing emotional regulation and steadiness

  • Cultivating belonging, professionalism, and ethical leadership

Recent and sample talks include:

  • How to Succeed in Law School: Focus, Resilience, and Wellbeing

  • How to Thrive in Law School Without Burning Out 

  • Cultivating Confidence: Compassionate Self-Regard as a Resource for Resilience

  • Mindfulness of Sound: A Core Skill for Decision-Making

  • Informal Practices to Support Decision-Making and Exam Taking

  • Equanimity in Times of Uncertainty

For Law Firms & Legal Organizations

I work with law firms and legal organizations to support high performance, wellbeing, authentic leadership, connection, and sustainable excellence.

Topics may include:

  • Stress regulation and nervous system awareness

  • Mindfulness for focus and performance

  • Ethical leadership under pressure

  • Whole-self leadership and authentic presence

  • Skillful communication and connection

  • Inner resources for resilience and renewal

Recent and sample talks include:

  • The Connected Mind: The Science of High Performance

  • Inner Resources: Practices Rooted in AANHPI Wisdom

  • Leading from Within: Authentic Leadership in a Fractured World

  • Come As You Are: Grounding Leadership in the Whole Self

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PAUSE™: Embodied Wellbeing for Retreats, Conferences & Teams

PAUSE™ is an embodied wellbeing experience co-created by me, Anu Gupta, and Justin Senense, and presented at leading wellness centers including the Omega Institute and Kripalu.

Blending movement, music, meditation, reflection, and interspiritual wisdom, PAUSE™ helps people slow down, reconnect with the body, regulate the nervous system, and come home to themselves.

PAUSE™ can be offered as a conference workshop, team retreat, wellness gathering, leadership offsite, or contemplative practice session. It is especially supportive for groups seeking rest, renewal, connection, creativity, and embodied transformation.

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Retreats & Spiritual Teaching

I also teach in retreat centers, dharma communities, churches, spiritual communities, and contemplative spaces.

My spiritual teaching draws from Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, and other contemplative traditions, while remaining accessible to people across backgrounds and belief systems.

Retreat and community offerings may include meditation, reflection, interspiritual wellness, compassion practice, embodied awareness, chanting, silence, dialogue, journaling, and practices for rest and renewal.

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See Anu in Action

I’ve shared my work through keynotes, public talks, retreats, podcasts, book events, and global forums.

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Testimonials

  • “It was a pleasure to have Anu speak during our Sales Summit. We received great feedback from everyone after his session. They loved his presentation and humble style! I once again want to say THANK YOU for becoming a part of Globant’s effort to…launch our goals. I have no doubt we will continue a long partnership with you!”

    — Saumya Pathak, Globant

  • “Anu provided a stellar workshop for Chloe Capital’s Invest in Women program. His insights into conscious and unconscious bias were revealing and thoughtful. The session was lively and engaging and the audience was interacting throughout. We’re happy to recommend his exceptional consulting and educational services.”

    — Elisa Miller-Out, Chloe Capital

  • “Anu offers creative and innovative tools to transform workplace challenges. Anu is a brilliant and compassionate thought leader. I highly recommend his educational content to anyone seeking to foster connection in their workplace.”

    – Traci Jenkins, Venable LLP

  • “Anu built an excellent self-led program for us for building awareness of implicit bias and providing useful strategies for breaking that habit. The presentation is interesting, interactive, effective, and personal. I highly recommend it!”

    – Aine Calgaro, Lung Cancer Research Foundation

  • “Anu is an incredible coach. He designs novel, rich, and engaging programs which deepen knowledge and understanding of important challenges facing workplaces and communities. His programs are an orchestrated experience allowing one to reflect and grow in a non-judgemental safe space. It has increased my enthusiasm and intention to do what I can do to address issues involving which plague our world.”

    – Mary Kay Humfeld, AmEx

  • “We will not be able to effectively change our systems, policy, and culture if we do not learn how to change ourselves and unlearn the beliefs that have been indoctrinated in all of us. Anu’s programs honestly taught me how to be a better human being, and I would love to see that spread.”

    – Tanya Lopez, MS, American Medical Association