May Busch

May Busch brings her insights and experiences following her successful investment banking career to help top leaders advance their organizations, and to promote greater thought leadership, diversity and entrepreneurial spirit in the workplace. She offers workshops, keynotes, consulting and executive coaching to high-potential and high-performance leaders. Prior to this, May enjoyed a 24-year career at Morgan Stanley spanning two continents and nine different business roles across Investment Banking, Capital Markets and Firm Management. She was most recently Chief Operating Officer for Europe where she was responsible for the development and implementation of the Firm's business strategy in Europe, Middle East and Africa. She chaired the firm's European Diversity Council and was a member of Morgan Stanley's European Management Committee as well as a Board Member of the Firm's FSA-regulated UK broker dealer. May is also Senior Advisor and Executive in Residence in the Office of the President, and Professor of Practice at W.P. Carey School of Business, at ASU (Arizona State University). She lectures on leadership, and works on interdisciplinary initiatives across the university with an emphasis on leadership, entrepreneurship and enhancing the engagement between business and academia. She chairs The Idea Enterprise, a program for bringing experienced business leaders to ASU to help turn its best ideas into forces for change in the world. ASU is the largest US public research university, and pioneer of the New American University model for higher education. May is a founding partner of M|C Advisors, a private consultancy in the UK that works with professional services firms on organizational strategy, leadership development, client effectiveness, and gender diversity. As part of this, May and fellow founding partner, Catherine Claydon, work closely with firms who seek to attract, retain and develop the careers of their professional female workforce. May graduated with a BA magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is married with three children.