Becoming Jude

JUDE GUAITAMACCHI
Jude is a motivational speaker, award-winning campaigner, consultant, TEDx talker, content creator, and founder of the human rights organisation Trans+ Solidarity Alliance. For over 13 years, Jude has delivered talks and workshops on mental health, resilience, LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and gender diversity awareness for global businesses, brands, schools, and universities across 70+ countries. With every talk, campaign, and collaboration, Jude seeks to engage, educate, and empower their audiences.
Jude has worked with an impressive range of clients including Soho House Group worldwide, The Groucho Club, TikTok, Sony, Universal, Paramount, Allianz, Deloitte, Michael Kors, Versace, Kingston University, Aiglon College (Switzerland), Marlborough College, and St Paul’s, alongside consultancy work on mainstream television productions including the BBC’s I Kissed a Boy. More recently, Jude launched a Queer Series with Soho House London, hosting in-conversation events focused on LGBTQ+ inclusion across TV, film, fashion, and music.
Breaking barriers in fashion and beauty, Jude became the first non-binary person to model for a Harrods Beauty campaign, delivering the message: “My beauty is being myself.” Committed to advocacy and inclusion, Jude champions authenticity and resilience worldwide, believing that the path to belonging is not found in abandoning who you are, but in staying true to yourself, and that leading with love is a powerful way to bring people together.
JIn 2025, Trans+ Solidarity Alliance facilitated the largest meeting of MPs and their constituents in Parliament in LGBTQ+ history, making international headlines. Jude also led the #TransYouthAreLoved campaign, which became the largest celebrity-endorsed trans solidarity campaign in history, featuring support from David Tennant, Emma Bunton, Elliot Page, Dannii Minogue, Jessie Ware, and Will Young, gaining national media attention and millions of views online.
Their work has not gone unnoticed by notable public figures and respected institutions. In an interview with The Daily Mirror, Dame Kelly Holmes named Jude one of her personal heroes, and Dannii Minogue commended Jude, saying, “I am inspired so much by what you’ve achieved, and never slowing down.”
In recognition of their impact, Jude has been named an Attitude Magazine 101 Trailblazer, included in The Guardian Pride Power List and The DIVA Power List, and won Campaigner of the Year at The Bank of London Rainbow Honours. Today, Jude continues to work as a speaker, trainer, and consultant, supporting organisations in becoming more inclusive, empathetic, and empowering spaces for all. Their work is driven by their campaigning motto: to make love the loudest voice.
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.
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.



