Some Ideas Stay With You.

Through stories, humour and real-life experience, May brings a different perspective to familiar challenges, creating moments of recognition that stay with people long after the conversation ends.

 

In Person or Virtual Keynote Speaking 

SEE DIFFERENTLY. LEAD DIFFERENTLY.

Sometimes the most valuable shift isn't finding another answer. It's seeing the question differently.

May Crawford brings something different to the stage.

She doesn't arrive with another formula for success, a prescribed set of steps, or answers an audience has probably heard before.

Instead, May creates conversations that invite people to pause, question familiar assumptions and notice what they may have stopped seeing.

Drawing on decades of experience in business, leadership, entrepreneurship, facilitation and life, May explores the thinking behind the decisions we make, the assumptions we carry, the possibilities we overlook and the ways our perspective can quietly influence what we believe is possible.

Her approach is thoughtful, conversational, engaging and refreshingly human. With warmth, humour and a willingness to challenge conventional thinking, May creates the kind of experience that continues in people's minds long after the room has emptied.

Because sometimes people don't need another answer.

They need an opportunity to see differently.

CONVERSATIONS WORTH HAVING

May's speaking engagements can be shaped around the audience and the conversation that matters most to them.

    Current speaking themes include:

Clarity Changes Everything - What becomes possible when we stop adding more noise and begin noticing what may already be clear.

What If You're Asking the Wrong Question? - How the questions we ask can limit the answers, and possibilities, we're able to see.

When Thinking Becomes the Problem - Why capable, intelligent people can think themselves further away from what they already know.

The Courage to Challenge What We've Always Accepted - An exploration of assumptions, conventional thinking and what can happen when we're willing to question both.

Who Decided What You're Too Old to Do? - A different conversation about age, relevance, possibility and why becoming doesn't have an expiry date.

The Leadership Conversation We May Be Missing - Moving beyond titles, techniques and formulas to examine judgment, perspective, choices and the kind of leader we are becoming.

WHAT MAY BRINGS TO THE ROOM

May's audiences aren't passive recipients of another motivational presentation.

They are invited into the conversation.

Through stories, observations, questions, humour and decades of lived leadership and business experience, May creates space for audiences to examine their own thinking rather than simply adopt hers.

People may leave with different conclusions.

That's the point.

The goal isn't to tell an audience what to think.

It's to leave them thinking.

And perhaps seeing something they couldn't see before.

WHO MAY SPEAKS TO

May's conversations are particularly suited to:

Corporate and leadership audiences        Executive and emerging-leader groups        Women's leadership events        Business and entrepreneurial communities        Associations and conferences        Professional development events        Retreats and facilitated conversations

Formats can include keynote presentations, interactive conversations, fireside chats, leadership sessions, workshops and podcast or media appearances.

BRING MAY INTO THE CONVERSATION

If you're looking for a speaker who will give your audience another motivational speech, May may not be the right choice.

If you're looking for someone who can create a thoughtful, memorable conversation, one that challenges assumptions, opens possibilities and leaves people seeing something differently,

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT FEES

Speaking engagements are individually designed according to the audience, format, location and objectives of the event.

For speaking inquiries, availability and fees, please contact May directly.

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