Mastering the S-Curve of High-Powered Careers The world needs great leaders. And the world needs its leaders to perform at their best. Will you answer the call?
However you choose to direct your talents, become the best leader you can be – of your self, your team, and your organization. Perform to your potential. Achieve success on your own terms. Make the difference you were meant to make.
The journey of high-performance leadership is:
- Personal – finding the unique formula that resonates for you
- Dynamic – continually mastering new and more demanding situations while progressing through periods of transition, growth and transformation
- Collective – succeeding through people rather than in isolation, and connecting with those who can help along the way
As you reach out for key insights and learning experiences in your journey, I invite you to accelerate your progress and that of your organization by sharing in the wisdom I have gained through a 24-year career, most recently as Chief Operating Officer for Morgan Stanley Europe, and now at the largest and most innovative public research university in the US.
Through talks, workshops, consulting, writings or one-on-one sessions, I help leaders shape organizations, lead positive change and perform to their potential.
“May has thought long and deeply about her experience as a leader at the top level of an Investment Bank, and has come to some very original and completely practical conclusions. Coupled with this, she is a superb, inspirational speaker, and I have been proud to ask her to talk to top quality MSc students on the core Leadership module in their programme.”
Professor David Sims, Head of the Faculty of Management, and Director of the Centre for Leadership, Learning and Change at Cass Business School, City University, London (December 2010)
“May came to speak on the subject of leadership to the Full-Time MBA cohort of 2010 at Imperial College London. The content of the talk was informative, inspiring and very well-organized and was delivered in compelling and unique fashion. May attracted a large post-lecture crowd and her honesty, wit and professionalism created an atmosphere of rich discussion that endures months later. My colleagues and I continue to reference some of her insights in our conversations about business management, in all its rewards and challenges. We hope to have May back to speak at future events.”
Claire Cockerton, MBA Candidate 2010 at Imperial College London (March 2010)
“’Perspectives on Leadership’ was what May came to speak to us on, at the Imperial College Business School, but she delivered much more. Her talk was an insight into a journey to success, as she defines for herself, and inspired many thought provoking discussions after the talk. Her talk had relevant content that all of us on the MBA programme could relate to and was delivered in a creative way, I did not know when the one hour flew by and it would not be an overstatement to say that this was one of the best one hour spent in the six months that I have been at Imperial College Business School. I have met May since and attended her talk at the Cass Business School ‘Consulting vs Banking. What strikes me most about May is her strength of character, excellence in her field and a reflection of a true leader.”
Suchika Gupta, MBA Candidate 2010 at Imperial College London (March 2010)
