Public Speaking

Anisa Varasteh: Speaking on Intimacy, Power, and the Hidden Language of Desire

A clinical sexologist and international speaker known for blending evidence-based insight with courageous storytelling.

Anisa Varasteh

Anisa Varasteh is a sexologist, psychotherapist, and global speaker working at the intersection of eroticism, power, shame, and identity. Her work reframes sexuality as a pathway to deeper self-understanding and human connection. Known for illuminating the cultural, historical, and relational forces that shape desire and expression, she holds taboo topics with nuance, depth, and cultural context.

Anisa helps individuals and audiences move beyond performance and into presence - reclaiming their sensual, psychological, and emotional selves. Her talks are evidence-based, transformative, and unforgettable.

Signature Talks

01

The Intelligence of Intimacy: What Intimacy Teaches Us About Presence, Power, and Leadership

Drawing from psychology and neuroscience Anisa reveals how the same qualities that create meaningful intimacy also build exceptional leadership - psychological safety, attunment, and embodied presence.

This keynote reclaims the erotic not as an intimate act, but as aliveness, presence, and creative potency - challenging the false divide between intellect and sensuality, and showing how erotic intelligence sharpens leadership, connection, and vision.
executive leadership forums, corporate wellbeing summits, professional development conferences.

02

Permission, Power, and Paradox: Why Real Growth Lives Between Opposites

True transformation happens when we learn to hold contradictions - strength and vulnerability, eroticism and intellect, power and tenderness.

Anisa explores how the tension between opposites isn’t something to resolve, but to relate to. She unpacks how our deepest growth - in love, leadership, and intimacy - comes from learning to stay present in paradox: where difference becomes connection, and complexity becomes depth.
thought leadership events, women’s leadership events, cultural and academic conferences, wellbeing and psychology forums.

03

Power Without Harm - Ethical and conscious power dynamics in love and life

Power is inevitable in every relationship - personal, professional, and intimate. The question isn’t who has it, but how it’s held.

Anisa reframes power not as dominance or control, but as presence, responsibility, and attunement. Drawing from psychology, philosophy, and ethics, she explores how unconscious power dynamics shape everything from leadership to love - and how making them conscious can transform both. Audiences are invited to rethink power as neither good nor bad, but as a force that, when held with awareness, becomes a tool for trust, safety, and creative potential.
thought leadership events, leadership conferences, wellbeing forums, relationship and psychology events.

04

From Scripts to Self: Rediscovering Aliveness in an Age of Performance

We live in a world that rewards performance - in work, relationships, and even authenticity. But real connection can’t exist inside a script.

Anisa explores how cultural conditioning shapes our capacity for intimacy, creativity, and joy - and what it takes to return to the self beneath performance. Through stories and research, she helps audiences rediscover sensuality as the foundation of aliveness, fulfillment, and purpose.
wellbeing retreats, psychology, leadership and mental health conferences.

Why Anisa?

Holds paradox with ease: Comfortable with contradiction - pain and pleasure, intellect and eroticism - and helps audiences hold it too.
Cultural depth and global perspective: Multilingual, culturally rich, and globally minded.
Complex yet accessible: Brings multi-dimensional perspectives while remaining clear and practical.
Intimacy at scale: Translates deeply intimate insights into compelling talks for large audiences.