Dr. Sarah Okafor

Sarah's journey into personal development began not in a lecture hall but in a crisis. At 29, after burning out from a high-achieving career she had built on external expectations rather than internal values, she found herself asking the kinds of questions she had always helped others avoid. That period of honest reckoning became the seed of what would eventually become the ReTAIE framework. She holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc in Organisational Behaviour from the London School of Economics, and is a certified executive coach with the International Coaching Federation. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, government ministries, and individual high-performers who were achieving everything on paper and feeling hollow about all of it. Sarah is also a published researcher, with her work on self-awareness and leadership effectiveness cited in peer-reviewed journals across three continents. She currently divides her time between Lagos, London, and the growing network of ReTAIE facilitators she trains and mentors.

The most courageous thing a person can do is to see themselves clearly and choose to keep going anyway.

— Dr. Sarah Okafor