Gabrielle Claiborne is a TEDx and keynote speaker, author, dynamic trainer, successful entrepreneur and recognized community leader whose work has been featured in Forbes and on NPR. She is the CEO and co-founder of Transformation Journeys Worldwide, a training and consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations create fully trans and non-binary inclusive cultures. Her greatest passion is inspiring all people to live their most authentic lives and helping organizations create respectful spaces where everyone can bring their truest and best selves to the table.

Gabrielle has been honored as Atlanta's Best Trans Activist, as Emory University's Pride Alum of the Year, the Georgia Division of the U.S. Small Business Administration's LGBT Small Business Champion and the Atlanta Business Chronicle's Outstanding Voice for Diversity and Inclusion. Her firm has been recognized as a recipient of the Atlanta Hawk's True Comes in All Colors Award, and the OUT Georgia Business Alliance's Small Business of the Year.

Gabrielle served on the Atlanta PRIDE Board of Directors for five years, sits on the City of Atlanta's Mayoral LGBTQ Advisory Board, and the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce's TGNC Inclusion Task Force and serves as the Board Inclusion Chair and Secretary for the OUT Georgia Business Alliance. A lifelong church leader, Gabrielle was elected to the Executive Board at City of Light Atlanta, directed their choir, and founded and led the church's trans support group.

She is an adoring grandparent and the proud parent of three adult children and one Bengal kitty. Gabrielle lives in Atlanta, Georgia.