Michelle Okwudiafor

Communications specialist, soft skills trainer, personal brand and confidence coach for emerging leaders

With over 15 years of strategic communications experience in senior roles across EMEA regions. She has led successful employee engagement campaigns, designed employee engagement strategies and wellbeing and diversity programs across the UK and Nigeria.

In 2020, she founded Career Invest, a fast-growing career empowerment company based in London equipping early career professionals with soft skills to create stand out professional brands, encourage peak performance and differentiate themselves in a crowded marketplace.

Michelle’s superpower has been described as ‘Passionately empowering people with confidence strategies to own their stories, get unstuck and supercharge their careers’.

An advocate for representation, diversity and inclusion, Michelle is a facilitator for #IamRemarkable, a Google initiative and mentors students and graduates at the University of Brighton, UK Social Mobility Foundation.

Michelle’s key note topics include: building a stellar personal brand, self-promotion, confidence and mindset.

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