Catherine May is an experienced non-executive director, committee chair and corporate leader. She has been working and advising the boards and leadership teams of leading multinational businesses for more than 25 years. She is an expert in reputation management, corporate governance, building winning corporate culture and stakeholder communications.
A leader in a wide range of management and board level activities
Catherine is a leader in the field of reputation management and influencing. She is an expert in assessing reputation risk for brands and organisations and in developing strategies and campaigns to build and protect reputation.
Experience as a Non-Executive Director, Senior Independent Director and Chair of Audit, coupled with her executive knowledge of corporate and financial reporting, Catherine has a wealth of expertise in corporate governance.
Catherine works with senior business leaders to support their growth and development, helping them reach the highest possible levels of performance, and inspire through their leadership.
Her experience as an active Non-Executive Director and past experience as an Executive Committee member enables her to guide her coachees in their efforts to build effective and high impact working relationships with executive colleagues, board members and their teams. Business leaders working with Catherine to increase their performance, effectiveness and impact will be guided through a goal setting process driven by their own aspirations and career goals. During their coaching programme they will be encouraged to recognise and value their key strengths and build on these to deliver the best results. They explore techniques to maintain confidence in their performance and gain recognition for their achievements. Many coachees also choose to work with Catherine on career planning, work-life balance or mindfulness exercises, all of which can be drivers for a happier, more successful way of working.
Catherine works largely with individuals who are in senior leadership roles in large blue-chip corporations. She is particularly in demand to work with newly promoted individuals, taking on additional responsibilities and building new relationships at board level. Ultimately, Catherine's aim in her coaching is to help leaders be as true to their own personal beliefs as possible, while making a positive impact in their corporate environment. Catherine has a professional certificate in executive coaching and leadership behaviours from Henley Business School and is a certificated practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Progamming (NLP). She has been accredited as a coach by Henley, and the NLP School, and is also a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Contact Catherine if you would like to know more about her professional approach, or see more testimonials about the effect of her programmes. She can be reached via email at catherine@cjmay.co.uk
Henley Business School, 2015
NLP School, 2017
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Catherine May is based in central London.