Katie Neeves

Katie Neeves has been a professional photographer for 38 years and she came out publicly in 2018 as being transgender, after living for 48 years as a man.  Katie formed Cool2BTrans to support and inspire other trans people and to educate everyone else about trans people, using humour to break down barriers.  Katie appears regularly in the media, being on ITV, the BBC and Channel 5’s lists of experts and being a BBC presenter too.  She has won many awards for her work as a trans ambassador, including the British Diversity Awards Hero of the Year 2023 award.  She is on the Global Diversity List 2023, she is on the Top 100 Influential People in the UK 2024 list and she is a National Diversity Awards Positive Role Model for LGBT Award 2024 finalist too.  Katie’s talks have been described as “engaging, hilarious and exciting”, ”inspirational storytelling at its best!” and “the most exciting training in years.