Author: William Nana Beeko
There are professional milestones that mark the end of a journey, and there are others that reveal just how far a journey has come. For Scofray Nana Yaw Yeboah, Africa’s foremost neuroscience-informed ontological executive coach latest international coaching achievement belongs firmly to the second category.
The current President of the Ghana Chapter of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) has become the first Ghanaian to attain the prestigious Advanced Certified Team Coach (ACTC), adding another remarkable distinction to an already extraordinary professional journey.
But beyond the certificate and the international recognition lies a more compelling story: that of a Ghanaian professional who has spent nearly two decades turning coaching from an emerging concept into a serious leadership and organisational development discipline.
Coach Scofray’s latest accomplishment also shines a fresh spotlight on his pioneering work in mBIT (multiple Brain Integration Techniques), where he has distinguished himself as the world’s first Black Professional Certified mBIT Trainer and Africa’s first black male mBIT Master Coach.
His professional story is therefore not simply about collecting credentials. It is about a sustained attempt to expand the boundaries of what leadership coaching can achieve, while positioning Ghanaian expertise on platforms traditionally dominated by practitioners from Europe, North America and other established coaching markets.
The ACTC credential is particularly significant because team coaching requires a different depth of competence from individual executive coaching. It involves helping teams navigate relationships, competing perspectives, collective behaviour, performance challenges and the complex dynamics that determine whether organisations succeed or struggle.
The demanding route to the credential reflects that distinction. Candidates are required to hold an ICF coaching credential in good standing, complete specialised team coaching education, undertake multiple team coaching engagements, receive coaching supervision and successfully pass the ICF Team Coaching Certification Examination.
For Coach Scofray, therefore, the achievement represents more than another professional title. It affirms years spent working with executives, teams and organisations, and developing the capacity to understand leadership not merely as an individual responsibility but as a collective organisational phenomenon. Another groundbreaking innovation from Ghana to the world, through Coach Scofray’s professional innovation and endorsed by the Institute of Commercial Management, is his Neuro-Emotional Intelligence Training, designed, deployed and distinguished from benchmarked global Emotional Intelligence Trainings. Over 226 leaders from MTN Ghana, Stanbic Bank Ghana, Smile Train Inc Africa Medical Advisory Council, Ghana National Gas Company, etc., have testified to its incredible, cutting-edge evolution for embodied transformation.
Reflecting on the milestone, he described the moment in deeply personal and national terms, expressing gratitude to God and pride in knowing his professional contribution helped coaching in Ghana and across Africa.
“It is beyond an indescribable feeling to experience and share that Ghana has produced her first ACTC,” he said, adding with characteristic humility and emotion: “Indeed, the charcoal seller’s child can wear white.”
That statement captures an important dimension of Coach Scofray’s personality. Behind the polished language of executive coaching and international certifications is a professional who remains conscious of his roots and sees personal advancement as a platform from which others can also rise.
His career has increasingly become intertwined with the institutional growth of professional coaching in Ghana. He was instrumental in establishing the ICF Ghana Chapter and became its first elected President, helping create a local platform for promoting professional standards, ethics and globally recognised coaching practices.
His influence has also extended beyond formal coaching sessions. In 2020, he led Ghana’s first professional coaching survey, contributing to a better understanding of the state, perception and development of coaching as a profession in the country.
Today, his professional experience stretches across borders. With nearly two decades in the field and more than 4,000 coaching hours, he has worked with executives, entrepreneurs, business leaders and organisations in Ghana and countries including Rwanda, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Lesotho, Kenya, Benin and Côte d’Ivoire, as well as clients and institutions in the United Kingdom and United States.
That international exposure has helped shape an approach to coaching that draws from several disciplines. His areas of expertise include Ontological Mindfulness Ecological Executive Coaching, systemic thinking, neuroscience, strategic communication and branding, leadership and team building, management and strategic corporate re-engineering.
Perhaps the most striking feature of his professional journey, however, is the number of pioneering distinctions attached to his name. In 2025, after rigorous assessment, he became Ghana’s first Master Certified Coach (MCC) under the ICF—the organisation’s highest individual coaching credential.
His record of professional firsts extends into specialised areas of coaching and human development. He has been recognised as Africa’s first Certified Ontological-Mindfulness-Ecological and Systemic Thinking Executive Coach.
The mBIT distinction is especially notable because it reflects his interest in moving beyond conventional approaches to leadership and human performance through cutting-edge emerging neuroscience. His work in this area focuses on integrating different dimensions of human intelligence and helping individuals and leaders develop greater awareness in decision-making, relationships and performance.
Coach Scofray has consequently built a professional identity at the intersection of coaching, neuroscience-informed leadership development, systems thinking and organisational transformation. His approach reflects the belief that effective leadership cannot be reduced to technical competence alone.
Outside the coaching room, he has also influenced corporate training, writing, and public engagement. He is the Lead Consultant at Zoweh Global Consult, a Certified Professional Corporate Trainer, a Fellow of the Institute of Commercial Management, UK, and the author of four books. At the same time, more than 100 of his articles have been published.
His extensive media presence has further made him a familiar voice in Ghana’s public conversation. Having featured in more than 300 radio and television interviews in Ghana and internationally, he has used the media to discuss leadership, personal development, professional growth, organisational effectiveness and broader issues affecting society.
His service to the coaching profession has also moved into international assessment and recognition. His professional journey has included evaluating and contributing to initiatives within the wider international coaching community, further demonstrating his commitment to the profession’s growth and credibility. These experiences reveal a personality driven less by the pursuit of titles than by a determination to create pathways. His professional firsts are significant because each one potentially widens the space for other African coaches, trainers and leadership professionals to believe that global excellence is attainable from Ghana.
The ACTC achievement therefore arrives as another chapter rather than a conclusion. At a time when organisations increasingly depend on collaboration, adaptive leadership, innovation, and high-performing teams, Coach Scofray’s latest credential places him at the centre of a growing conversation about how African organisations can build stronger, more resilient leadership cultures.
For Ghana, his journey carries an even broader significance. It demonstrates how professional excellence, continuous learning and international certification can combine to build global credibility from an African base. For the next generation of coaches, his story offers something equally important: proof that the journey from local beginnings to international recognition is possible.
Coach Scofray’s story is ultimately one of persistence, reinvention and purposeful leadership. From becoming a pioneer in Ghana’s professional coaching ecosystem to earning elite international credentials and establishing himself as a leading mBIT practitioner and trainer, he continues to turn personal milestones into a larger narrative about Ghanaian and African excellence.
And perhaps that is the most revealing part of the Coach Scofray personality: the certificates may carry his name. Still, the significance of his journey lies in what those achievements represent—a Ghanaian coach steadily building bridges between local talent and global standards, one professional first at a time.
