Dr Shaun Dellenty

Shaun Dellenty was one of the first UK gay state school primary school leaders to ‘come out’ to his whole school community in the press. Named by the Guardian’s top twenty figures in public life ‘Global Diversity List’ alongside Barrack Obama, Orpah Winfrey and Jacinda Ardern, Shaun’s work has regularly featured in international press and he has advised at UK government committee and policy level.

Shaun is widely lauded as a powerful, inspiring and authentic speaker displaying tremendous resilience, compassion and vulnerability. Shaun speaks about DEI (with an LGBT+ focus) as well as mental health and even his days in the acting profession! Shaun wrote the acclaimed 2019 Bloomsbury book ‘Celebrating Difference- A Whole School Approach to LGBT+ Inclusion’ recommended in UK Parliament by Lord Michael Cashman and recorded in Hansard.

Shaun Dellenty (NPQH, FCCT, FRSA, B’ed Hons, HonDrEd) is a member of actors union Equity and has appeared in a range of theatre and TV and film productions including the film ‘After 82’, the long running soap Emmerdale as well as numerous voice overs and live presentation work. Shaun is currently writing his second book ‘That Gay Teacher’ a memoir of his life and advocacy.

Shaun founded the acclaimed compassion-based LGBT+ inclusion education strategy ‘Inclusion For All’ initially aimed at tackling LGBT+ bullying in his (then) London Primary School.
Shaun has spoken at numerous national and international education, human rights and anti-bullying conferences and has a global reach extending over twenty-five countries.