{"id":214451,"date":"2025-11-22T01:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-how-inner-work-can-help-african-women-in-leadership-thrive-bola-matel-okoh\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T01:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:59:57","slug":"nigeria-how-inner-work-can-help-african-women-in-leadership-thrive-bola-matel-okoh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-how-inner-work-can-help-african-women-in-leadership-thrive-bola-matel-okoh\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: How Inner Work Can Help African Women in Leadership Thrive &#8211; Bola Matel-Okoh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The non-executive director of Wema Bank PLC also shared how executive coaching can provide clarity in today&#8217;s complex environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">African women are rising to leadership positions across various industries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Yet, many still face internal barriers that are rarely discussed, such as self-doubt, impostor syndrome, perfectionism, and the constant pressure to &#8220;prove&#8221; themselves in spaces where they are often the minority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Mabel Okoh, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511210483.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The non-executive director of Wema Bank PLC also shared how executive coaching can provide clarity in today&#8217;s complex environment. African women are rising to leadership positions across various industries. Yet, many still face internal barriers that are rarely discussed, such as self-doubt, impostor syndrome, perfectionism, and the constant pressure to &#8220;prove&#8221; themselves in spaces where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4380,8307,8771,52929,257,4687,393,254,29132,6524,6100],"class_list":["post-214451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-bola","tag-leadership","tag-matelokoh","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thrive","tag-women","tag-work"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}