Matthew E. May
Matthew E. May is an American author and business strategist. He is best known for his six books: The Elegant Solution, In Pursuit of Elegance, The Shibumi Strategy, The Laws of Subtraction, Winning the Brain Game, and What a Unicorn Knows: How Leading Entrepreneurs Use Lean Principles to Drive Sustainable Growth.
Education
May graduated with a BA from Johns Hopkins University in 1981, and from the Wharton School of Business in 1985 with an MBA.
Career
In his early post-graduate career May worked as an independent performance improvement consultant with leading training, development, and management consulting firms. In 1999, May was exclusively retained by Toyota to assist with the launch of their corporate university. The partnership lasted through 2006, after which May published his first of six books and began keynote speaking and advising senior executive teams. In 2020, he began working exclusively with Insight Partners, a leading venture capital and private equity firm. May advises on matters of strategy, innovation, customer experience, and lean operations.
Other work
May is a contributor to a number of newspapers, reviews, and magazines. He is a winner of the New Yorker Magazine Cartoon Caption Contest.