About
Author. Speaker. Coach. Service-excellence leader.
Benson Mutua is the founder of BensonMutuaLive and the author of Tower to the Stars, helping ambitious professionals design careers and lives of meaning.
Author · Speaker · Coach · Founder
Benson Mutua
Helping ambitious professionals build careers and lives of meaning
Benson is a Dubai-based author, speaker, and service-excellence leader. His work blends executive coaching, leadership development, and a deeply human approach to career design, built on a decade of mentoring professionals across the GCC, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
He founded BensonMutuaLive on a simple conviction: ambition deserves a clear path. Most professionals don't lack drive, they lack a framework, a mirror, and a coach who can hold the standard while keeping the work human.
That conviction grew into a body of work: the bestselling book Tower to the Stars, hundreds of coaching engagements, signature programs that blend strategy with self-leadership, and the BensonMutuaLive CV system that has helped clients land roles at top global firms.
Today, Benson serves three audiences with the same level of rigor: students stepping into their first roles, mid-career professionals reaching for leadership, and executives architecting their next decade, through coaching, keynotes, and the Sit With Me & Grow sessions.
10+ yrs
Coaching ambitious professionals across continents
500+
Lives directly impacted through 1:1 work
12
Countries reached through programs and the book
1
Bestselling book, Tower to the Stars
Our Mission
To equip every ambitious professional with the strategy, skills, and self-belief to design a meaningful career.
Clarity
Cut through noise with frameworks, not platitudes. Every session leaves you with a next step.
Craft
Premium tools, CVs, programs, and content engineered to perform in real hiring rooms.
Community
A global network of peers, mentors, and leaders who've walked the path you're on.
Journey
From conviction to platform.
Began informal mentoring of early-career professionals while building a corporate career across East Africa and the GCC.
Formalized 1:1 coaching practice. First cohort programs launched for graduating students.
BensonMutuaLive founded as a global platform, coaching, CV mastery, and content under one roof.
Launching Tower to the Stars, a guide to purposeful growth and lasting success.
Expanding programs across the GCC, Africa, and Europe with new digital products.