Mary Thuo
Cityscape Trends Services CEO
Nairobi, Kenya
Personal Profile
Mary Wanja Thuo Founder and CEO Cityscape Trends Services Limited,which is a social impact enterprise for profit, which provides sustainable commercial cleaning and maintenance of offices and buildings.She is a catalyst for change, for the (4Ps) Purpose,Planet,People and Prosperity. She champions, advocates and lobbies on decent work,decent pay,human rights and economic growth for those at the bottom of the pyramid dwelling in informal settlements in urban and peri urban areas. She does this through leveraging on the core business to address social and environmental impacts.She left formal employment in 2005, She had initially worked as a waitress in the coast region of Kenya. Due to political upheaval during the time, She left the coast region and relocated to Nairobi, where She was employed in beauty salons, for a period of 3 years, before finally quitting formal employment and venturing into self-employment.
She founded a beauty salon— ‘Talk of The Town Executive Salon and Barber Shop’, a business venture that turned out quite successful and which she managed for 10 years, before venturing into Cityscape Trends,in the cleaning and sanitation industry. She later sold off the beauty salon, in order to fully focus on Cityscape Trends.
Mary applied and was accepted by the GoldMan Sachs Foundation Centre for Executive Entrepreneurs Development program (CEED) which is run in collaboration with the USIU (United States International University) Africa, in Nairobi. This was the turning point for Mary. She learnt and implemented professional business best practices, including proper book - keeping, which enabled success and sustainability in her business.
Headquartered in Nairobi, Cityscape Trends serves various NGOs, private and public institutions in Kenya. Under her inspirational leadership, Cityscape Trends has progressed and become one of the household name firms in the Kenyan market renowned for quality care of indoor and outdoor spaces. Driven by the virtue of delivering service excellence, she is committed to making Kenya a cleaner, Greener and better country.
Her bravery, relentlessness and hunger for learning inspire her to increase and improve her knowledge in every way possible especially in training,Workshops,and networking with entrepreneurs in events organized by business associations, United Nations, and International organization of Employers,international labour Organization. She is ever keen and determined to actualize newly acquired skills and knowledge. Under her leadership and guidance Cityscape Trends is signatory to the United Nations Women Empowerment Principles (WEPs)
As a business leader and an award winner, she has been rethinking the role of business in society through championing the sustainable development goals to address the world's biggest,most pressing humanity challenges worth solving for the most vulnerable and marginalized communities. With a work force of 250 sanitation consultants, majority of whom originate from marginalized community in Nairobi,Mombasa,Kisumu,Thika,Machakos,Kisii,She guides, inspires,,encourages,empowers and transforms lives and livelihoods through determined efforts to eradicate poverty through business collaborations for the greater good.
As a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact, Mary also rattles the cage in her industry as an influencer, a champion, an advocate for United Nation Guiding Principles through the integration of Human Rights due diligence to address social and environmental impact while respecting people for their dignity without infringing on their rights. Her vigorous lobbying for policies in regards to the living wage for the low income earner has raised the standards high in the cleaning sector that will be felt not only by her workers but as well as others coming in that space long after her little big footsteps.
Mary's wealth of experience, exposure,creativity, and transformation has inspired her to develop,