Octavia Goredema is an award-winning career coach, author and founder who guides professionals to unleash their full potential at work.

Octavia is the CEO and founder of Fire Memos, an app that empowers employees to record and recognize their work accomplishments. Fire Memos is a Techstars portfolio company.

An acclaimed career expert, Octavia is the author of PREP, PUSH, PIVOT: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women and the host of the Audible Original series, How to Change Careers with Octavia Goredema.

Octavia’s insights have been featured in Fast Company, CNN, Fortune, CNBC, Forbes, Business Insider, Inc, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Yahoo, The Guardian, Grazia magazine, and Black Enterprise, among others. Octavia is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review. During the pandemic, 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 and an Ambassador of the Pankhurst Centre, the iconic site of women’s activism, past and present.

Octavia is based in Los Angeles where she has lived for over a decade.