About Cypress Leadership

Cypress Leadership Inc. is a professional management consulting practice committed to helping organizations manage change, pursue growth and achieve improved organizational performance through more effective leadership structures, processes and behaviours.  Areas of expertise include:

organization and job design · recruitment support

succession planning · retention strategy

performance management · change management

team building · coaching and counseling

When you engage the services of Cypress Leadership, you get Russ May – Founder and Principal Consultant – and you are accessing the experience, wisdom and judgment accumulated over a 40 year career in Human Capital management across a broad range of organizational sectors:

  • manufacturing
  • transportation
  • agriculture
  • media and communications
  • health care
  • education
  • government (all three levels)
  • printing and publishing
  • financial services
  • food processing
  • retail
  • natural resources
  • biotechnology
  • utilities
  • performing and visual arts
  • special interest/not-for-profit
Organizations engage my services under a variety of circumstances:

  • When they have chosen a new strategic direction and want objective third party support to help plan and guide the change management process.

  • When they are struggling to deal with people or situations that are in conflict with the goals and direction of the organization.

  • When a valued member of the leadership team is no longer meeting expectations for reasons that go beyond the basic competencies required for the job.

  • When leadership teams appear to be operating in functional silos and are failing to achieve the desired level of collaboration and synergy.

  • When individual executives want confidential counselling and support to work through personal challenges that impact their professional success.
     

Fifth Wave Leadership
David Maister
Peter Drucker
Jim Collins
Emotional Intelligence
Marcus Buckingham
Malcolm Gladwell
Centre for Creative Leadership
Marshall Goldsmith
Member: Canadian Association of Management Consultants

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