Frank Gallo is one of the well-known 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 seven 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.

For 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.

From 2009 through 2012, he was the Chief Leadership Consultant for Hewitt China and in this capacity he has consulted top-tier organizations for their talent and leadership development strategies.

Frank’s clients include both MNCs and Chinese companies such as Agilent, Alcoa, Philips, Infineon Technologies, Mitsubishi, Novozymes, Osram Sylvania, SAP, Cabot, Career International, China Automobile Association, China Construction Bank, China Industrial and Commercial Bank, China Mobile, China Resources, Sinopec and TCL.

Frank is a professor in the M.B.A. program at the Beijing Capital University of Economics and Trade. He is also a frequent speaker at professional conferences in the United States and China. 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.

Frank is the author of Business Leadership in China: How to Blend Western Best Practice with the Chinese Wisdom, which is available from www.amazon.com and www.mindspan.cn.

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.