Alison Perlo

American by birth and French “by adoption,” Alison Perlo has 12 years experience living and working in Europe, based in France. She works in both English and French. She has managed projects and teams in over 25 different countries including Russia, Venezuela, Tunisia, Finland, Singapore, Turkey, Spain, Thailand, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates and has worked with people of over 70 different nationalities, from every continent.

Alison has over 30 years experience as a consultant and coach. She also worked for five years as Vice President Talent Management and Leadership Development for sanofi pasteur, in charge of attracting, developing and retaining top talent and teams.

Alison has extensive experience working in vaccines and has worked in industries as varied as insurance, publishing, banking, trucking and fashion.

She has served as a guest speaker in business school programs in France at HEC and in the United States and Chile at Tulane's Freeman School of Business. She presented a paper in Greece on “Humor in a Foreign Language and Culture” at the World Congress of Applied Linguistics and has been interviewed about working across cultures in several business magazines.

Alison began her career in teaching and worked as a lecturer in Communications in various establishments including the Ecole Normale Superieure de Fontenay/St Cloud, the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), ENSAE and the Sorbonne. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Brown University and her master’s in communications, with a specialization in socio- and psycho-linguistics, from Harvard University.