About Me

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Trying to actually “balance” work and life can feel a little like wobbling around on a unicycle while juggling everything you are responsible for. If that is balance, I’ll pass on the circus act.

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I’ve always been more interested in what happens where work and life overlap. The stress we carry home. The personal experiences we bring into work. The conversations we replay long after they end. The assumptions, expectations, and reactions that can make an ordinary day feel much heavier than it needs to.

 

That is the space behind WorkLifeJoy™.

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To me, WorkLifeJoy is not about loving every minute of your job or somehow eliminating stress from your life. It is about having more clarity, more choice in how you respond, and a healthier way of navigating the parts of work and life that inevitably affect each other.

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My work is grounded in psychological science, business psychology, workplace mental health, and behavior change. But I also believe useful ideas should make sense outside of a textbook. If you cannot recognize yourself in them or use them when real life gets messy, they are not very helpful.

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That belief has shaped my coaching, my work with organizations, the Awareness Interpretation Model (AIM).

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So whether you are trying to navigate a difficult season at work, lead people more effectively, or create a healthier experience for an entire team, my hope is that you leave this space seeing something a little more clearly than you did when you arrived.

 

Experience

• Headspace, Inc. 

• Melanie C Gallo Coaching & Consulting, LLC 

• dōTERRA International

• MelMessage Designs, LLC

• Edward Jones Investments

• Miller Zell Integrated Retail Design

• The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company

• Hyatt Hotel Corporation

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Education/Certifications​

• NBC-HWC, National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, National Board of Medical Examiners

• CMHC, Certified Mental Health Coach, Headspace Training Institute

• PhD, Business Psychology, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

• MBA, Keller Graduate School of Management

• BA, Psychology, The University of Georgia (Go Dawgs!)

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Professional and Civic Memberships

• American Psychological Association (APA)

• APA Div. 8, Society of Personality and Social Psychology

• Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology

• Forbes Coaches Council

• The Magnolia (GA) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated

• The University of Georgia Alumni Association

• The UGA 1961 Club, a giving society founded to honor the legacy of desegregation and in support of the Black Alumni Scholarship Fund.

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