In Prep, Push, Pivot, award-winning career coach and author Octavia Goredema delivers an indispensable career coaching guide for women looking for a new job, dealing with job loss, pivoting to a new career, or returning to the workforce after an extended absence. In this important book, you will discover practical strategies you can implement at crucial times during your career, ensuring your considerable talents and skills are used to their full potential.
Octavia Goredema is a career coach and the founder of Twenty Ten Agency. 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. An acclaimed career expert, Octavia’s insights have been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, Yahoo, The Guardian, Grazia magazine, and Black Enterprise, among others. Octavia co-hosted and produced HBR Now, Harvard Business Review’s weekly show about leadership. Originally from England, Octavia was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by the Queen in recognition of her work. Octavia is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, where she leads the Gender Equity network in the United States. Octavia is an Ambassador of the Pankhurst Centre, the iconic site of women’s activism, past and present.