Gabrielle Claiborne (she/her)

Gabrielle Claiborne (she/her) is Co-founder and CEO of Transformation Journeys Worldwide, an inclusion training and consulting firm with a transgender focus. She travels internationally, helping cutting-edge organizations position themselves to attract and retain the best talent, foster collaborative working environments, thus maximizing innovation and directly impacting the bottom line by creating fully trans-inclusive cultures. Some of her clients include Home Depot, COX, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of America, Comcast, Microsoft, Mercedes Benz, UPS, Delta Air Lines, HubSpot, WarnerMedia, AARP, StockholmLGBT, International Hotels Group, HubSpot, The Grammys and the Centers for Disease Control, among others.

As an out and active transwoman since 2010, Gabrielle served as Co-Chair of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce’s Trans & Gender Expansive (TGX) Initiative, as Co-Chair of the Atlanta LGBTQ Mayoral Advisory Council’s, Trans Affairs Committee, and currently serves as chair of the Out Georgia Business Alliance’s TGX360 Workplace and Entrepreneurship Initiative, as board member of the National LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance, and chair of the International LGBTQ+ Travel Association’s (IGLTA), Trans Advisory Group. In 2023, Acquisition International Magazine recognized her as their Most Influential Workplace Inclusion Training CEO and in 2022, she received the Georgia Diversity Council’s LGBTQ Leadership Award and Emory University's Barkley Forum, Georgia Speaker of the Year Award and. In 2020, she published her memoir meets self-help book Embrace Your Truth: A Journey of Authenticity and in 2019, the Atlanta Business Chronicle acknowledged her as their Diversity & Inclusion “Outstanding Voice” Award recipient, and she delivered a TEDx talk for Centennial Park Women TEDx. In 2018, Gabrielle received the Georgia Small Business Administration’s LGBT Small Business Champion Award in recognition of her efforts in advancing LGBT business ownership and her work was featured in Forbes. In 2015, Gabrielle was chosen as Atlanta’s Best Trans Activist.

As a trans-owned certified LGBT Business Enterprise, Transformation Journeys Worldwide was honored to be chosen as the Out Georgia Business Alliance 2018 Small Business of the Year, and to receive the Atlanta Hawk’s prestigious 2019 True Comes in All Colors award for their cutting-edge inclusion work