Octavius Black
Octavius Black is a highly successful British entrepreneur, philanthropist and author. He founded the world’s first and leading behavioural science business, MindGym which has been at the frontier of modernisation in business, advising 62% of FTSE 100 and 55% of S&P100 on areas from productivity and digital transformation to inclusion and ethics. Mindgym has trained over 3 million professionals and is on track to be one of the great British business success stories; unlike many founders Black has retained the majority stake and has recently embarked on a major digital transformation strategy. Alongside his wife, Octavius co-founded and funded a social mobility programme, ParentGym, which provides free parenting classes in socially deprived areas in the UK. Octavius is also the Co-Author of four best-selling books, a Sunday Telegraph business columnist. Prior to founding MindGym, Octavius was a director of organisational communications consultancy Smythe Dorward Lambert.