About Me - My Biography

Matthew E. May is the author of three award-winning books: The Elegant Solution, In Pursuit of Elegance, and The Shibumi Strategy.

A popular speaker, creativity coach, and close advisor on innovation to companies such as ADP, Edmunds, Intuit, and Toyota, he is a regular contributor to the American Express OPEN Forum Idea Hub and the founder of Edit Innovation, an ideas agency based in Los Angeles.

Matt’s ultimate aim in every talk is to inspire new thinking and provide practical takeaways through entertaining storytelling. He blends his frontline experience as a creativity coach and innovation catalyst with the research conducted for his books in order to deliver useful concepts with immediate application. He does not fancy himself a “motivational speaker” or “business guru,” but rather a practitioner of business innovation with lessons learned and war stories to tell from years in the trenches with companies ranging from small startups to companies as large and multinational as Toyota.