Matthew E. May
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Matthew E. May Speaker Biography
Matthew E. May is the author of six bestselling books on strategy, innovation, and the discipline of subtraction. His first, The Elegant Solution in 2006, was the world’s first insider account of Toyota’s approach to innovation. His most recent, What A Unicorn Knows, captures the lean methodology he deployed for over a half-decade across Insight Partners’ portfolio, one of the world’s leading technology-focused private equity firms.
Matt spent nearly a decade as an exclusively retained advisor to Toyota Motor Sales USA, where he helped develop and launch the University of Toyota. He later studied strategic choice-making under Roger Martin and completed Stanford d.school’s Design Thinking Bootcamp.
His work has appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Rotman Magazine, Fast Company, Strategy+Business, and Inc. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA from Johns Hopkins University — but counts winning the New Yorker cartoon caption contest in 2008 among his most creative achievements.
He is the founding partner of Stratechia, a strategy and innovation workshop firm based in Los Angeles.
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MIND OF THE INNOVATOR: How Game-Changers “Think Different”
The pressure to stand out and stay relevant in a fiercely competitive marketplace demands innovative thinking to jump the curve and move to the next level. That pressure falls squarely on the shoulders of the individual, because companies don’t innovate, people do. The tension between business objectives and creative thinking isn’t easily resolved…unless you can tame the traps of traditional thinking. In this compelling keynote, Matthew takes the audience inside the minds of the world’s most creative executives and entrepreneurs to reveal how they crush the status quo, write their own rules, change the game, and move the world.
ELEGANT LEADERSHIP: Secrets to Achieving the Maximum Effect With Minimum Means
Amidst an arguably expanding world economy, one fact stands clear: business leaders are facing a scarcity of resources. Materials cost increases and other financial burdens combined with an ever-shrinking pool of top talent leaves leaders facing a critical capability challenge. Enter the concept of elegance: achieving the maximum effect with minimum means. In this compelling keynote, Matthew reveals how the best leaders spur creativity and innovation among their ranks by imposing intelligent constraints.
COMPETING FOR THE FUTURE: The Art of Playing to Win
Leaders at every level face the same daunting challenge: how to win consistently in a massively disruptive business environment. Enter the need for a forward-looking strategy that enables a player to create a sustainable advantage and superior value relative to the competition. In this talk, Matthew show leaders how to begin with a future-back winning aspiration, then answer two deceptively simple questions: Where will you play? and How will you win? Blending compelling examples with stories from years of front-line experience facilitating strategy sessions, this keynote delivers a master class on competing for the future.
WINNING THE BRAIN GAME
This provocative and highly interactive keynote speech is based my latest book Winning the Brain Game. Participants will engage in the same simple thought challenges given to over 100K people during a 10-year period, revealing seven mental glitches that stymie our best thinking.
THE MAGIC OF SUBTRACTION
This keynote draws upon my book The Laws of Subtraction. I outline six simple rules for standing out and staying relevant in a massively distracting world, built on a single yet powerful idea: When you remove just the right things in just the right way, something good happens.
DESIGNING ELEGANT SOLUTIONS
This popular speech is based on my two first books, The Elegant Solution and In Pursuit of Elegance. Drawing on my years with Toyota, I deliver the key elements to creating and developing ideas and solutions that achieve the maximum effect with the minimum means.
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