Jude is a globally recognised motivational speaker, award-winning campaigner, consultant, and TEDx talker, known for their emotionally intelligent, heart-led approach to leadership, mental health, and social change. With over 13 years’ experience, Jude has delivered talks and workshops across 70+ countries, supporting organisations, schools, and institutions to build more inclusive, resilient, and empathetic cultures.

 

Jude’s work spans leadership, mental health and wellbeing, neurodivergence, social media awareness, and LGBTQIA+ inclusion. Drawing on lived experience alongside professional expertise, their talks explore how empathy strengthens leadership, how sustainable resilience differs from endurance, and how individuals can protect their wellbeing in high-pressure, digitally saturated environments. Jude also brings a deeply personal and empowering perspective supporting audiences to move from shame to self-awareness, confidence, and practical support.

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Overcoming significant adversity and mental health challenges in their youth, Jude transformed their experiences into a powerful message of authenticity, resilience, and self-empowerment. Jude began their speaking career in 2013 with the Amy Winehouse Foundation’s Resilience Programme, delivering talks across Europe to young people on peer pressure, self-esteem, and recovery. They later worked with the Self Esteem Team, before establishing themselves independently as a sought-after speaker and educator specialising in LGBTQIA+ and trans inclusion, social media awareness, resilience, and mental health.

 

As the founder of the human rights organisation Trans+ Solidarity Alliance, Jude has led ground-breaking campaigns that have shaped public opinion and delivered historic firsts within UK Parliament, including facilitating the largest meeting of MPs and their constituents in LGBTQ+ history. Their work includes leading the largest celebrity-endorsed trans solidarity campaign ever, gaining millions of views and significant national media attention.

 

Alongside their advocacy, Jude has worked with global clients including Soho House Group, TikTok, Deloitte, Sony, Universal, Paramount, Allianz, Michael Kors, and Versace, as well as schools and universities across the UK and Europe. Breaking barriers in fashion and beauty, Jude became the first non-binary person to front a Harrods Beauty campaign, sharing the message: “My beauty is being myself.”

 

Their work has earned public acclaim from respected public figures, with Dame Kelly Holmes naming Jude as one of her personal heroes in The Daily Mirror. Jude has also consulted on the BBC programme I Kissed a Boy, working closely with Dannii Minogue and the production team to support inclusive and authentic representation.

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Throughout their career, Jude has reached thousands across cultures, industries, and generations, known for their emotionally intelligent, heart-led approach to public speaking. They have transformed lived experience into meaningful impact, using storytelling to help others find strength in vulnerability and empowerment through authenticity. Jude continues to work as a speaker, trainer, and consultant, delivering bespoke talks and workshops that support organisations in becoming more inclusive, empathetic, and empowering spaces for everyone — grounded in courage, compassion, and a deep commitment to authenticity and justice.

 

Recognised as an Attitude 101 Trailblazer in 2025 and they won Campaigner of the Year at the Bank of London Rainbow Honours, Jude continues to support organisations and young people alike to lead with compassion, courage, and authenticity — guided by their belief: to make love the loudest voice