‘Be still, ambitious, without arrogance’: A CEO’s lessons in humility

Stanbic Bank Kenya and South Sudan Chief Executive Michael Mutiga pictured after the interview at his office on November 10, 2026.

Photo credit: Francis Nderitu | Nation Media Group

Bankers, it would seem, tread with padded paws. Moving without disturbing the air too much. Michael Mutiga talks like that. Measured. Each word set down gently, like a glass on a table in someone else’s house. Or how you close the door to the room of a sleeping baby.

He has been CEO of Stanbic Bank Kenya for a few months, long enough to feel the weight of it, not long enough to know everyone who knows him.

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