Bio

Octavius Black is the Co-Founder and CEO of MindGym, which he started in his kitchen 2000. An entrepreneur, philanthropist, best-selling author and former business columnist. Octavius has co-authored MindGym’s four books and has written in The Times, Financial Times and The Sunday Telegraph. Prior to founding MindGym, Octavius was a director of the organisational communications consultancy Smythe Dorward Lambert and prior to that he was an analyst at Booz Allen Hamilton. Octavius read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at The Queen’s College, Oxford University. Octavius was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in King Charles' 2023 New Year Honours for services to entrepreneurship, business, life sciences, and community.