Gender Wiser
Coaching & Consulting
Interactive Evidence-based Empowering Transformative
Jo Trigilio, Ph.D
they/them/all pronouns
Understand and explore
gender with an expert
crafting new approaches
using the latest, evidence-based information
30 years of experience with
mentorship and guidance
trainings, workshops, retreats
gender research and education
supporting and empowering youth
Gender expression and embodiment
Exploring and clarifying your identities
Understanding sex/gender/sexual orientation
Coming out: language and scripts
Coming out: emotional reactions
Coming out: practical considerations
Transition: Clarifying your transition path
Transition: Preparing for social transition
Transition:Gender affirming practices & services
Job seeking and interviewing
Educational and professional environments
Dating and relationships
Building resilience and coping strategies
Religion and spirituality
Finding or building affirming community
Understanding LGBTQ+ culture and norms
Know your rights
Other issues that are important for you!
ABOUT GENDER WISER
Gender Wiser is a leading consulting firm dedicated to fostering gender diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Our team comprises seasoned professionals with a passion for driving meaningful change. We are committed to creating environments where individuals of all genders can thrive, innovate, and lead. Through our tailored consulting services, we empower organizations to build more equitable and inclusive workplaces.
Design your own journey
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Exploring and expressing gender identity, expression, and embodiment through empowering and affirmative approaches
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Understanding the LGBTQI spectrums: sex, gender, sexual orientation
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Coming out (or not) to friends, family, co-workers, employers, teachers, etc.
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Transitioning: Information and support through the gender transition process
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Exploring non-medical alternatives
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Navigating educational and professional environments
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Navigating gender affirming practices, services, and systems
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Dating
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Job seeking and interviewing
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Strategies for connecting, finding, and building community
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Strategies for improved, empowered coping and resilience
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Negotiating religion
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Know your rights: legal information, protections, current legislation, and known risks (gender markers on IDs, gender affirming care, name and gender marker changes, trans athletes, title IX, parental rights, bathroom and facility access)
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Other issues that are important for you!
Compassionate, Knowledgeable, and Personalized Guidance
Are you questioning your gender identity or sexual orientation, coming out at LGBTQ+, or considering transitioning? Are you facing a period of transition, or simply seeking deeper self-understanding, clarity and growth?
Gender Wiser Coaching provides an affirming space for guided exploration and practical support. Sessions offer judgement-free zones where you can explore without any pressure, social risk, fear of disappointing anyone, violating cultural norms, or being misunderstood.
I enjoy working with all ages, genders, ethnicities/races, and backgrounds I have extensive experience working with youth and young adults, and also specialize in later life exploration and transitions.
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Interactive Gender and Sexual Orientation Education
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Guided Exploration & Reflection Exercises
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Experimenting with Gender Expression
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Mentorship through transitions, coming out, job seeking, dating, life situations
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Communication & Self-Advocacy
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Confidence and Resiliency
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Connecting with others and with community
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Resource Connection
Design your own journey
FOR EVERYONE
YOUNG ADULTS
Learn from an Expert
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Develop a deeper, more insightful approach to inclusion and equity
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Learn terminology and key concepts in clear, accessible language
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Develop a shared vocabulary for communicating across an organization or group
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Gain useful tools for interpreting real situations, understanding context, recognizing patterns, and applying these insights within your roles and organization
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Grounded in scholarship and evidence, not check-the-box trends
I am an award-winning educator with over thirty years of experience teaching issues of gender, sexuality, race, intersectionality, and allyship. My work brings together a balanced blend of academic training, cultural knowledge, and lived experience.
My educational trainings are grounded in up-to-date scholarship and research, and designed to be accessible without forsaking the complexity that real life presents us. Sessions include interactive exercises that support engagement, reflection, and practical application. All content is informed by an intersectional framework that examines how systems of race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and culture are interconnected and shape one another, allowing participants to move beyond isolated categories toward a more accurate and useful understanding of lived experience.
I am experienced in presenting to a wide range of audiences, remotely and in person. My facilitation style is friendly, welcoming, and growth-oriented, creating space for curiosity, honest questions, and thoughtful dialogue. Across all trainings, I maintain a no-shame, no-blame approach, encouraging a learning environment of openness, thoughtfulness, patience, and respect.
Customized for You
student groups
non profits
healthcare providers
schools, colleges, universities
community groups
HR and DEI professionals
ERG's
and more
Growth-oriented: My facilitation style is friendly and welcoming, creating space for curiosity, honest questions, and thoughtful dialogue.
Interactive: Sessions include interactive exercises that support engagement, reflection, and practical application.
Evidence-based: My educational trainings are grounded in up-to-date scholarship and research, and designed to be accessible without forsaking the complexity that real life presents us.
Intersectional: All content is informed by an intersectional framework that examines how systems of race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and culture are interconnected and shape one another, allowing participants to gain a more accurate understanding of lived experience.
No-shame, no-blame approach: I maintain a no-shame, no-blame approach, encouraging a learning environment of openness, thoughtfulness, patience, and respect.
Award-winning educator: I have over thirty years of experience teaching issues of gender, sexuality, race, intersectionality, and allyship. My work brings together a balanced blend of academic training, cultural knowledge, and lived experience.
I am experienced in presenting to a wide range of audiences, remotely and in person.
Customized for You
student groups
non profits
healthcare providers
schools, colleges, universities
community groups
HR and DEI professionals
ERG's
and more
Learn from an Expert
Develop a deeper, more insightful approach to inclusion and equity
Learn terminology and key concepts in clear, accessible language
Develop a shared vocabulary for communicating across an organization
Gain useful tools for interpreting real situations
Growth Oriented
My facilitation style is friendly and welcoming, creating space for curiosity, honest questions, and thoughtful dialogue.
Interactive
Sessions include interactive exercises that support engagement, reflection, and practical application.
Evidence-based
My facilitation style is friendly and welcoming, creating space for curiosity, honest questions, and thoughtful dialogue.
Intersectional
My facilitation style is friendly and welcoming, creating space for curiosity, honest questions, and thoughtful dialogue.
No-shame No Blame
My facilitation style is friendly and welcoming, creating space for curiosity, honest questions, and thoughtful dialogue.
Growth Oriented
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My approach is one of openness, encouraging curiosity, honest questions, critical thinking, and thoughtful dialogue
Interactive
(expand)
My approach is one of openness, encouraging curiosity, honest questions, critical thinking, and thoughtful dialogue
Evidence-Based
(expand)
My approach is one of openness, encouraging curiosity, honest questions, critical thinking, and thoughtful dialogue
Intersectional
(expand)
My approach is one of openness, encouraging curiosity, honest questions, critical thinking, and thoughtful dialogue
No-shame No Blame
(expand)
My approach is one of openness, encouraging curiosity, honest questions, critical thinking, and thoughtful dialogue
No-shame No Blame
Interactive
Evidence-based
Intersectional
Evidence-based
Content is grounded in up-to-date scholarship and research, and designed to be accessible without forsaking the complexity
No-Shame No-Blame
Friendly & welcoming facilitation style. No-shame, no-blame approach, encouraging openness, thoughtfulness, patience, & respect.
Intersectional
Content informed by intersectional framework that examines how systems of race, gender, sexuality, disability, and class shape one another.
Growth Oriented
Designed to encourage curiosity, honest questions, critical thinking, and thoughtful dialogue
Interactive
Sessions include interactive exercises that support engagement, reflection, and practical application.
Award-Winning Educator
Over 30 years of experience teaching issues of gender, sexuality, race, intersectionality, and allyship.
Growth Oriented
Designed to encourage curiosity, honest questions, critical thinking, and thoughtful dialogue
Interactive
Evidence-based
Educational sessions are grounded in up-to-date scholarship and research, and designed to be accessible without forsaking the complexity that real life presents us.
Intersectional
All content is informed by an intersectional framework that examines how systems of race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and culture are interconnected and shape one another.
No-shame No Blame
Learning environment that encourages curiosity, honest questions, critical thinking, and thoughtful dialogue
Interactive:
Evidence-based: Educational sessions are grounded in up-to-date scholarship and research, and designed to be accessible without forsaking the complexity that real life presents us.
Intersectional: All content is informed by an intersectional framework that examines how systems of race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and culture are interconnected and shape one another.
No-shame, no-blame approach: Friendly and welcoming facilitation style. No-shame, no-blame approach, encouraging a learning environment of openness, thoughtfulness, patience, and respect.
Award-winning educator: I have over 30 years of experience teaching issues of gender, sexuality, race, intersectionality, and allyship. My work brings together a balanced blend of academic training, cultural knowledge, and lived experience.
I am experienced in presenting to a wide range of audiences, remotely and in person.
Customized for You
student groups
non profits
healthcare providers
schools, colleges, universities
community groups
HR and DEI professionals
ERG's
and more