May Busch
Visible: How to Advance Your Career Without Playing Politics, Selling Your Soul, or Working Yourself into the Ground
About
You work hard, deliver results, and maintain high standards—yet career advancement feels increasingly out of reach. Traditional advice to “let your work speak for itself” or “learn to play the game” leaves you stuck between burnout and sellout. The truth is, dedication alone isn’t enough to break through to the next level.
May Busch, former COO of Morgan Stanley Europe, offers a better path forward. Through her 24-year journey from entry-level analyst to C-suite executive and her work coaching hundreds of ambitious professionals, she’s identified the hidden capabilities that senior decision-makers actually look for when determining who advances and who plateaus. This transformative guide reveals how to navigate office politics authentically, build strategic relationships without compromising your integrity, and develop the presence to command attention at every stage of your career.
Whether you’re feeling overlooked for promotion, struggling with workplace dynamics, or ready to accelerate your trajectory, this book provides the framework to advance on your own terms. Stop grinding harder—start working strategically.
May Busch spent 24 years navigating the challenges of investment banking—from hiring mistakes to being passed over for promotions—experiencing nearly every setback the corporate world offers. Those hard-won lessons propelled her rise to Managing Director and ultimately Chief Operating Officer for Morgan Stanley Europe. Now, she’s dedicated to helping other ambitious professionals accelerate their careers without repeating her mistakes.
Through her international consulting practice, May Busch & Associates Ltd, May works with senior leaders on organizational strategy, leadership development, and executive coaching. She also serves as Senior Advisor in the Office of the President and Professor of Practice at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business, and has lectured at Imperial College, Stanford, and Harvard. She holds degrees from Harvard University and Harvard Business School, is a certified business coach, and lives with her husband and three children.