About Anusia Gillespie
Anusia Gillespie is a lawyer-turned-novelist and RYT-200 certified yoga instructor whose debut contemporary fantasy, Soul Toll, blends corporate ambition with personal awakening. Her writing is shaped by a career at global law firms, legal tech companies, and Harvard Law School Executive Education—offering a sharp, insider perspective on high-performance culture and the personal cost of chasing success.
Well known in the legal industry for her insight on leadership and transformation, Anusia now channels those themes into fiction that invites readers to question the lives they’ve been told to want. In Soul Toll, a high-achieving attorney’s search for clarity pulls her into a hidden world, and a battle for something far more meaningful than success.
Anusia holds a JD and MBA from Boston College and a BS in Management from Tulane University. She lives north of Boston with her husband, young son, and old dog.
Long Form Bio
Anusia Gillespie, author of the contemporary fantasy novel Soul Toll—hailed by Kirkus Reviews as “an imaginative, genre-blurring novel”—bridges the worlds of meaning and ambition in both her fiction and her career. She brings the same depth of insight to her work that spans legal practice, innovation, academia, and technology, giving her a unique view of professional ecosystems. She currently leads Enterprise GTM at vLex, a global legal intelligence platform, where she helps design and scale innovative solutions that empower lawyers to work more effectively.
Anusia previously served as Co-Head of Innovation at Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP, a global top 15 law firm with offices in 32 countries. There, she led initiatives to enhance lawyer development and modernize client service delivery through innovative practices and emerging technologies.
She also led program development at Harvard Law School Executive Education, where she developed leadership programs for lawyers from around the world. While at Harvard, she collaborated with leading thinkers in the legal profession to design forward-looking content that supports the evolution of legal practice.
Additional experience includes senior roles in legal technology and education. Anusia was Chief Strategy Officer at SkillBurst Interactive, an eLearning company dedicated to law firm lawyers that was successfully acquired by BARBRI and worked at UnitedLex to support Global Fortune 500 corporate legal departments in driving efficiency and innovation.
She is a strong industry contributor and thought leader, with publications in Law 360, AboveTheLaw.com, Law Practice Magazine, Law.com, The National Law Journal, Legal Evolution, Legal Business World, Compliance Week, Professional Development Quarterly, the American Bar Association, and many more.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business, a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School, and a Master of Business Administration from Boston College Carroll School of Management. She was awarded a seat on BC Law’s academic journal, the Uniform Commercial Code Reporter Digest, and was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma Honors Society in recognition of academic excellence.