Vive Odili is a woman of many layers.

HR leader by day, writer by night, and a mother every minute in between, she brings the fullness of her lived experience into every page she writes.

Known to many as Sparkle and to her poetry readers as Caramel, Vive’s words pulse with a rare blend of grace and grit. She writes from the trenches of real life—where faith is raw, motherhood is messy, and strength doesn’t always arrive polished. Her voice is both balm and battle cry for women who are weary of being told to “be strong” when what they truly need is space to simply be.

Her debut book, Navigating Career, Kids, and Crisis, introduced readers to her distinctive style: poetic, reflective, and unflinchingly honest about the tension between ambition, womanhood, and survival.

She continues this journey in her poetry collection Soft, Still, Sacred, where vulnerability becomes strength and silence is given language.

A certified HR professional, project manager, and creative entrepreneur, Vive is not just building careers—she is building culture, one conversation, one policy, one story at a time. Her personal journey—navigating the weight of responsibility as a mother, caregiver, and leader—forms the foundation of her intimate and resonant writing.

When she isn’t helping women find their voice or untangling complex people issues, Vive is writing poems that pierce and soothe, listening to acoustic worship, or sharing quiet laughter with her two daughters, who are, in her words, her “greatest legacy in motion.”