Calypso Consulting

Frank Gallo is one of the foremost executive coaches in China.  With over 30 years of management and human resources experience, he works with both Chinese and Western executives helping them to be successful leaders in China.  Frank has lived in China for eight years and is the retired president of Watson Wyatt China.  He is the founder and president of Calypso Consulting, a firm dedicated to improving the level of leadership in China.  In 2009, Frank became the Chief Leadership Consultant for Hewitt Associates in Greater China.  In that regard, all of his work is now done exclusively through Hewitt.

Frank is the author of the highly acclaimed Business Leadership in China: How to Blend Best Western Practice With Chinese Wisdom (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). He writes a monthly column on HR for CHO-Zhaopin Magazine in China.  From 2003 to 2007 he was the Chair of the HR Forum of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.  He is currently the Chair, Emeritus.

Clients have included various size organizations in a variety of industries.  Global and international assignments have included work with: Agilent, Alcoa, Cabot Corporation, China Construction Bank, China Industrial and Commercial Bank, China Mobile, China Resources Corporation, DHL, Infineon Technologies, Mitsubishi, Novozymes, OSRAM Sylvania, SAP, Sinopec and TCL.  Dr. Gallo is a regular senior contributor and executive board member of Metizo, the personal development company.

For most of the 1990s, Frank was with the Hay Group in Boston, New York and Atlanta.  Prior to Hay, Frank was a human resources executive at Wang Laboratories where he specialized in the design and measurement of reward programs.  For six years Frank was president of Gallo Associates, Inc., a management and marketing consulting firm.

Frank holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Hofstra University and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Center for Applied Social Science at Boston University.