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Trusted by Leading Organizations
Anusia is a sought-after speaker and has been invited to share the stage with global 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
Anusia Gillespie is the creator of Soul Toll™, a leadership novel author, and keynote speaker focused on the moment before you say yes.
After helping lead enterprise growth and two successful exits — including a $1B legal technology acquisition — she now speaks to individuals and organizations about the decision discipline that determines what they build and how they build it.
Her talks help ambitious professionals and executives examine tradeoffs, recognize the right choice before opportunities become obligations, and build the life and organization they actually want.
Why Clients Book Anusia
Anusia has led enterprise growth through two successful exits — including a $1B legal technology acquisition, the largest in the world. Her talks are grounded in the high-stakes decisions leaders and organizations face every day, not just theory.
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She speaks from the room.
Soul Toll™ isn't a concept — it's a practical decision discipline that applies to the choices individuals make about their careers and lives, and to the choices organizations make about where to invest their time, energy, and runway. Audiences leave with a tool, not just an idea.
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She brings a framework your audience will actually use.
Anusia cut her teeth speaking to lawyers — an audience known for sharp questions, high standards, and little patience for empty ideas. She combines real-world experience, practical tools, and story to leave every audience thinking differently about the decisions shaping their careers and lives.
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She wins over the skeptics.
Anusia elevates the conversation and delivers a framework audiences use long after the event ends.
Through real-world experience, practical tools, and story, Anusia delivers insights audiences can apply immediately — to the decisions shaping their careers, their teams, and their lives.
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Ambitious professionals are offered more opportunities than they can realistically pursue. Many look promising on paper but lead somewhere entirely different than intended.
In this keynote, Anusia Gillespie introduces Soul Toll™ — a practical decision discipline for evaluating the commitments shaping our careers and lives. Drawing on her experience leading enterprise growth through two successful exits, including a $1B legal technology acquisition, Anusia shows audiences how high performers recognize the right choice before opportunities turn into obligations. Combining real-world leadership experience with insights from her leadership novel Soul Toll, she challenges audiences to examine the forces shaping their decisions — and the real tradeoffs behind every opportunity.
Audience: Leaders, ambitious professionals, and high-performing teams navigating complex decisions about opportunities, leadership roles, and career direction.
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Artificial intelligence is changing how organizations work, compete, and make decisions. But the most important leadership skill in an AI-driven world remains deeply human: judgment.
In this keynote, Anusia Gillespie explores how leaders can navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape without losing the clarity and decision discipline that drive strong outcomes. Drawing on her work in legal innovation and generative AI adoption within global professional services organizations, she shows how leaders can integrate AI into their workflows while strengthening — not replacing — human insight.
Through real-world examples and practical frameworks, Anusia helps audiences understand how to use AI as a powerful tool while maintaining the human judgment required to guide teams through complexity and change.
Audience: Senior leaders, professionals, and organizations navigating the integration of AI into their work while maintaining strong leadership, judgment, and strategic clarity.
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Growth-stage companies don't fail from lack of ambition. They fail from too many yeses — overcommitted roadmaps, misaligned teams, and opportunities that looked right on paper but drained the runway they couldn't afford to lose.
In this keynote, Anusia Gillespie brings the Soul Toll™ decision discipline to the specific pressures founders and executives face as their organizations scale. Drawing on her experience leading enterprise growth through two successful exits — including a $1B legal technology acquisition — she shares the principles that separate companies that build momentum from those that stall under their own weight.
Audiences leave with a practical framework for sequencing priorities, finding and betting on signal, and saying no to the commitments that look like opportunities but function like obligations.
Audience: Founders, executives, and go-to-market leaders in growth-stage companies navigating high-stakes decisions about people, priorities, and the path forward.
