Octavia Goredema

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Octavia Goredema

Octavia Goredema is the founder of Twenty Ten Agency, a career coaching company and the author of PREP, PUSH, PIVOT: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women. Her mission is to help underrepresented professionals advance their careers. Octavia has coached leaders at renowned companies including Google, American Airlines, Tinder, General Motors, Nike and Dow Jones.

Octavia Goredema is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow her on LinkedIn. For more information, visit the author’s website.

Tech and Innovation

Successful Career Change Strategies for Senior Leaders

Tech and InnovationOctavia Goredema

Are you considering quitting your job to do something completely new? According to an analysis by Pew Research Center, half of the employees who quit their jobs in 2021 made a career change. I’m a career coach, and in my new Audible Original series, How To Change Careers, I share...

CEO Insights

How to Advance and Retain Women of Color in the Workplace

CEO InsightsOctavia Goredema

As so many of us are painfully aware, women of color remain the most underrepresented group in the corporate pipeline. We are hired at lower rates. We are promoted at lower rates. We are retained at lower rates. We are paid at lower rates. Many years ago, I set my...