Apr 1, 2024
How do
you get the job, or position, or career, where the work that you do
matters - and not just to your employer - but to you? Few
experiences in life are as awful as the feeling of being trapped in
the wrong career. But how do you find a job that truly resonates
with you? And once you’ve found it, how do you develop the
confidence to take the necessary steps to arrive at the career of
your dreams? Or how do you recover from a career setback and seize
new opportunities? Or, what if you are returning after a time away
from being in the workforce? How do you deal with the uncertainty
behind a career change and what gives you the confidence to hit a
reset-switch on your professional life?
These are the questions, areas and issues in which Octavia Goredema
thrives, as she works to help others navigate their own personal
career success.
Octavia is the host of the Audible Original
series, How
to Change Careers with Octavia
Goredema and
the author of PREP,
PUSH, PIVOT: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented
Women, published
by Wiley.
Octavia founded Twenty
Ten Agency, a
career coaching practice, where she has coached leaders at Google,
American Airlines, Tinder, General Motors, Nike, and Dow Jones, to
name but just a few. Her insights have been featured in
leading media outlets including Fortune,
CNN, Fast Company, Harvard Business
Review, the Los Angeles Times, The
Guardian, and Black Enterprise, among others.
During the pandemic she co-hosted “HBR
Now,” the Harvard Business Review’s weekly
show on leadership, and this year she contributed a chapter to the
Harvard Business Review’s new book, Navigating the Toxic
Workplace.
I see her work as a gift shared with her readers, her listeners,
and her clients. Her wisdom, her transparency in the sharing of her
experiences, and what she does, all demonstrate how she lives her
life in full, and in the service of others.