Incite Leadership

Jennifer May is a senior executive coach and facilitator with a  background in neuroscience, psychology, and management consulting.  She is also an American living in Dubai and the mother of two small children. 

 

Jennifer’s work focuses on developing leaders’ capacity to transform themselves, their teams, and their organizations. Her work brings scientific rigor to professional development, integrating the latest in personal development, complexity and biofeedback to support executives and managers as they work in a rapidly changing environment.

 

Over the last 14 years, Jennifer has worked extensively with Fortune 500 companies, multinational organizations, as well as with individual clients.  She has worked with top-teams and/or individual leaders at Google, Novartis, World Bank, Careem, Kuwait Finance House, McKinsey, Achmea, Diageo, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and many others. 

 

Prior to becoming a coach, Jennifer worked at McKinsey as a management consultant and as the global manager for the Organization Practice. Her clients were primarily in health care and education, spanning the globe from the US and the GCC, with adventures in South Africa, India, Japan, Brazil, and most of Europe. As McKinsey’s Global Director of Operations for the Organization Practice, she also developed deep line management experience, overseeing a team of over ~100 people across 15+ countries.

 

Jennifer is a practitioner of positive psychology, clinical hypnotherapy, and brain-based coaching and is certified in Leadership Circle Profile for individuals and systems. Jennifer has studied health systems at Harvard, holds a Masters of Neuroscience (Magna cum Laude) from Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam, and has a Bachelor of Science in Business and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, both Summa cum Laude, from Kansas State University.