Herbert Wigwe, Access Bank CEO and Group Managing Director
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2019
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Herbert Wigwe, a Nigerian banker, entrepreneur, and the Managing Director/CEO of Access Bank.
He is an Alumnus of Harvard Business School’s Executive Management Programme.
From his early 20’s, Herbert began what would become a successful career in banking and finance, and his first entrepreneurial venture, would be his most successful.
In 2002, Herbert and his long-time partner were presented with the prospect of acquiring a small-scale commercial bank, Access Bank.
Herbert had spent over a decade at Guaranty Trust Bank and was in-line to becoming the Executive Director in charge of institutional banking.
To have even considered such a decision of obtaining what was then ranked the 65th largest bank in Nigeria seemed like career suicide but Herbert seized the opportunity.
In 2016, The Banker Database ranked Access Bank in the top 1,000 banks in the world.
Today, Access Bank is one of the largest Banks in Africa, a feat which is attributable to his ingenuity and expertise.
I was invited to Nigeria to visit Herbert and Access Bank as a part of the work that we’re doing with them at Compete to Create.
It was my first time in Africa and I was amazed by the vibrance of the people there.
When we consider what's at the center of mastery, it’s so valuable to hear from people across the globe, so I think you’ll really appreciate getting to hear from Herbert.
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| 0:00.0 | History will only favor the brave. |
| 0:01.7 | If you don't try something, you don't get it. |
| 0:03.1 | It's not just as simple as that. |
| 0:05.2 | And if you want to understand, |
| 0:06.6 | and you are truly as good as you say you are, |
| 0:08.9 | go and do it. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast, I'm Michael Jervay. |
| 0:24.3 | And by trade and training, I'm a support in performance psychologist, |
| 0:27.7 | as well as the co-founder of a company called Compete to Create. |
| 0:31.5 | And this conversation, these podcasts, the whole idea behind them is to learn from people who are on the path |
| 0:37.0 | of mastery, to better understand what they crave, what they're searching for, what their psychological |
| 0:42.2 | framework is, |
| 0:43.6 | which is really how they make sense of the world and themselves in the world. |
| 0:47.2 | And then we also want to understand the mental skills that they use to build and |
| 0:51.0 | refine their craft. |
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