Equity and Inclusion Leader and Trainer

Gardy Guiteau is a multilingual, border-crossing, social justice educator, facilitator, and consultant with homes in London, UK, and Philadelphia, PA. In addition to his professional role as Council Facilitator, Gardy is the founder and owner of GJG Training and Consulting, a firm focused on dialogic inclusion work at the intersections.

Mr. Guiteau is an accomplished social justice educator and leader with over 20 years of experience in secondary schools, colleges and universities, nonprofit organizations, the corporate sector, and community organizations. Gardy is a trained Council and Intergroup Dialogue facilitator whose work focuses on developing opportunities and spaces that support and enrich the professional and personal experience of all members of an organization.

Mr. Guiteau came into social justice work through women of color feminist theories that have shaped his interest in exploring and building bridges across Africana Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Women Studies, Masculinity Studies, and Social Justice Education. In all his work, Gardy strives to identify and undo social disparities based on unfair distributions of power and resources. Gardy’s career has spanned service as an assistant buyer, an after-school program instructor, an academic advisor, an English language teacher, a learning resource coordinator, adjunct faculty, an assistant director for mentoring and academic programs, a director of equity and inclusion initiatives, an academic program director, and a council facilitator.

Mr. Guiteau currently serves as Council Facilitator at Snap, Inc. and heads up the operations of GJG Training and Consulting. As a consultant, facilitator, and trainer with extensive experience in management and mentorship, Mr. Guiteau has worked with employees and students at Arizona State University, the Community Education Project, Crédit Agricole - Corporate Investment Bank, Deloitte Global Technology, Jefferson University, the Juvenile Law Center, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Stockton University, Temple University, the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Tennessee, the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Villanova University, Widener University, and various public and independent schools.

Before his current professional responsibilities, Mr. Guiteau served as Director of the Master of Science in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program and Faculty Chair at Glasgow Caledonian New York College (now IENYC). Before that, he served as the Director of Equity and Inclusion at Newark Academy in Livingston, NJ, and was the inaugural Director of Social Justice, Inclusion, and Conflict Resolution at Rowan University.

Gardy is a passionate social advocate who migrated to the United States as a child from Haiti. In addition to consulting with various institutions and offering DEIB presentations and workshops, Gardy volunteers a portion of his time to the efforts of the Dyaspora Coordinating Committee, a nonprofit organization that he founded in 2015.

Mr. Guiteau holds a Master of Education in Social Justice Education, a graduate certificate in Latin American, Latine, and Caribbean Studies, along with completed coursework in advanced feminist theory from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He earned a BA in Psychology with a certificate in Women's Studies at Brandeis University. Mr. Guiteau has also completed professional coach training with the Academy of Creative Coaching, an International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited program.