The success experience of a financial institutions senior management. No clarity exists either in literature or in practice regarding people’s success experience. People often experience a dissonance between external success and internal fulfillment. Important components needed to experience success were identified from literature in order to determine in practice to what extent such components formed part of the success experience of a financial institution’s senior management. Internal (intrinsic) and external (extrinsic) factors were identified as necessary factors in order to experience success in a balanced way. In this article the findings of senior management’s success experience are reported. The research was conducted by means of qualitative and quantitative methodology from a Personal and Professional Leadership perspective.