About Trans*Formational Change, LLC
Trans*Formational Change helps organizations, changemakers, leaders, and individual contributors align with their purpose and courageously move towards equity through consulting, training, and coaching services. Thinking beyond formulaic “best practices,” we partner with you to design a process that centers connection, learning, balance, and adaptability. This mission is informed by and centers the leadership, knowledge, and priorities of those most in the margins.
About T.J. Jourian, Ph.D.
T.J. Jourian has over 20 years of experience supporting and amplifying efforts that advance equity and social change in organizations and communities across the US. He has served as a consultant, strategist, coach, researcher, community builder, instructor, and facilitator to help those seeking to transform the ways we live, work, learn, and play. His superpower is building communities and connections - drawing links between seemingly disparate ideas, people, systems, and goals - to reveal and shift culture collaboratively.
For T.J., this work is a calling and a commitment, born from his own experiences with racism, sexism, heterosexism, transphobia, classism, and xenophobia, and nurtured through coalition building and campus activism. When in 2005, T.J. was featured in the Sundance docu-series TransGeneration, depicting a single academic year in the lives of four trans college students at four different institutions, he used that platform to further his reach and speak to all kinds of audiences about justice and liberation. That planted the seeds of what would eventually become Trans*Formational Change. He finds inspiration in movement organizers, writers, artists, his friends and colleagues - people who have demonstrated the power of kinship, radical imagination, and intersectional thinking and doing. Through coaching, T.J. loves aligning people to their purpose, igniting their dreams, supporting goal attainment, and helping them lead meaningful, connected, and whole lives. He helps changemakers – diversity workers, activists, creatives, scholars, and leaders – reclaim and transform their energy, as they transform the world. As a consultant, he works with organizations to assess where they are, envision where they want to be, and design sustainable and actionable pathways forward, while mitigating the impacts of burn through for their people. While working on his doctorate, T.J. fell in love with research and has published extensively on gender, sexuality, and race in dozens of journals, books, and monographs, and co-edited a 2-volume series on Queerness as Being in Higher Education: and Queerness as Doing in Higher Education: Narrating the Insider/Outsider Paradox as LGBTQ+ Scholars and Practitioners. Based on the unceded lands of the Lenni Lenape (an area today known as Philadelphia), T.J. enjoys reading (or at least avidly buying books he intends to read), sharing good food with friends, and all the travel he can find the time for. He is a proud cat dad to Bella and human uncle to Lori and Alique. |