An award-winning speaker, author, lawyer, scientist, and meditation expert, Anu supports individuals and organizations to reclaim attention, restore connection, and heal divides using mindfulness-based tools.
We help leaders and teams meet today’s greatest challenges—distraction, disconnection, and division—through science-based meditation practices that reclaim attention, restore connection, and foster compassion and understanding.
Anu delivers keynotes, leads workshops, and designs self-led programs for Fortune 500s, colleges, universities, health systems, and nonprofits. Our neuroscience-backed approach has reached 300+ organizations, trained over 100,000 professionals, and touched more than 30 million lives.
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Our Impact
With support from the National Science Foundation, our somatically informed, science-backed Breaking Bias® approach shows how meditation can ease anxiety, loneliness, and hopelessness, and help heal the polarization, bias, and identity-based divisions that fracture teams, colleges, universities, and communities.
We’ve reached over 300 organizations and 100,000+ professionals at Fortune 500s, colleges and universities, health systems, and nonprofits.
Media
Our unique mindfulness-based approach has been featured in leading media worldwide.
Reclaim your attention, restore connection, and heal divides
This work has never been more urgent. Polarization, disinformation, and division are tearing at the fabric of our families, college campuses, workplaces, and nations. Yet within this turbulence lies a profound opportunity: to understand how our brains created these patterns—and how they can also free us from them.
Winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award, Breaking Bias offers practical, somatically informed tools for unlearning bias. It will train you to recognize how separation is learned, to heal from its wounds, and to heal the polarization, division, and biases that fracture our families, colleges, universities, workplaces, and communities today.
“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 Foreword to Breaking Bias
Praise for Breaking Bias
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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.
Who is Anu, anyway?
Anu Gupta is an award-winning speaker, author, lawyer, scientist, and meditation expert who has trained over 100,000 professionals across 300+ organizations worldwide. As a gay immigrant of color, Anu turned his own lived experiences of racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and mental health challenges into a lifelong mission: helping people and organizations reclaim attention, heal divides, and build cultures of belonging.
Educated at NYU School of Law (JD) and Cambridge University (MPhil), he has served as a Fulbright Scholar, a UN women’s rights advocate, and is both an Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity and a lifetime Fellow of the Mind & Life Institute.
Through his writing, teaching, and leadership, Anu blends modern neuroscience with ancient contemplative wisdom to offer practical, science-backed tools for personal and collective transformation.
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