The talk your audience has been waiting for.
Insights at the intersection of the human experience, science, and the mystical.
Trusted by Leading Organizations
Anusia Gillespie is a sought-after speaker who has shared stages with world-renowned leadership experts, including global legal futurist Richard Susskind OBE, Harvard Law School Executive Education Director Scott Westfahl, and Thinkers50–recognized leadership scholar Dr. Heidi Gardner.
American Bar Association
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AT&T
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Eversheds Sutherland
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Fragomen
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The Hollister Group
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Kroll
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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National Association of Law Placement
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Prince Lobel
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Stradley Ronon
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Wachtell Lipton
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Women's Bar Association of Ireland
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Organizations across the U.S. and Europe
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American Bar Association | AT&T | Eversheds Sutherland | Fragomen | The Hollister Group | Kroll | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | National Association of Law Placement | Prince Lobel | Stradley Ronon | Wachtell Lipton | Women's Bar Association of Ireland | Organizations across the U.S. and Europe |
Meet Anusia
As a two-time exit executive who helped lead through a $1B legal AI acquisition, she understands the systems shaping modern work, ambition, and leadership from the inside.
As the founder of Soul Toll, she explores what happens when technology advances faster than we can emotionally evolve alongside it.
On her podcast, Soul Toll with Anusia, she brings together scientists, spiritual practitioners, journalists, and artists for honest conversations about how to live a life that aligns with your Soul’s missions and how to decrease the harm of the Toll.
Her talks combine strategic insight, lived experience, behavioral frameworks, and emotional clarity, helping audiences navigate ambition, burnout, decision-making, identity, and leadership in an era defined by acceleration.
She lives north of Boston with her husband, young son, and senior dog.
Keynote Talks
Each talk draws from science, lived experience, and the full range of what Anusia has studied and built. Audiences leave with something they can use, and the permission and courage to use it.
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Every decision we make lands on one of two sides: Soul — what makes your energy go up — or Toll — what brings it down. Most of us have never stopped to do that math. This talk introduces the Soul Toll framework: A practical model for evaluating what fuels us, what depletes us, and how seemingly small decisions shape the trajectory of our lives over time.
Audiences leave with:
A framework for decision making
An understanding of the silent killer, burnout, and how to stop it in its tracks
How to create a life that is aligned professionally and personally
Audience: Leadership conferences, professional associations, corporate events
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There is a version of you that learned to perform for the job, the title, and the room. It worked.
Many professionals spend years performing a version of themselves built for achievement and approval.
And somewhere along the way, it became the whole act. The performance became difficult to separate from the identity itself.
This talk is about what it takes to shed that layer and find the person underneath — still ambitious, still capable, but finally free.
Audiences leave with:
Insight into performance-based identity
How to navigate the transition into reinvention
Greater clarity around values-driven leadership
Audience: Women’s conferences, leadership retreats, personal growth and wellness events
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The most transformative ideas don't come from one lane. This talk is for audiences who need permission to take the mystical seriously, or permission to take the science seriously — and who leave having understood that the answer was always on both sides of the line they drew.
It explores the surprising convergence between behavioral science, leadership, psychology, spirituality, and the human experience.
Audiences leave with:
Expanded perspective
Greater interlaual and emotional flexibility
Practical insight for navigating uncertainty and change
Audience: Innovation conferences, retreats, events with intellectually curious audiences
Why Clients Book Anusia
Anusia has navigated elite corporate environments, executive leadership, rapid growth, and major AI-driven transformation firsthand. She has co-taught at Harvard Law, and also danced ecstatically in Kauai and found her people at Kripalu. The full range is the point, and the audience feels it.
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She speaks from lived experience, not just theory.
Every talk delivers a practical framework — not a concept to think about, but a tool to apply the next day. Audiences leave with two things: the framework to apply today and the courage to actually use it tomorrow.
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She brings a framework your audience will actually use.
Anusia built her reputation speaking to lawyers — an audience known for sharp questions, high standards, and little patience for empty ideas. If she can hold that room, she can hold any room. She brings the same rigor and honesty to every stage she's on.
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She connects with both skeptics and seekers
Bring Anusia to Your Next Event.
Anusia is Boston-based and available for paid keynotes at conferences, professional associations, and retreats. Reach out to start the conversation.