Frank Castelli was born in New York City and currently resides in Northern Virginia. He earned his BSBA from John Carroll University, and went on to spend 46 years working in the insurance industry, where he often did public speaking about the psychology of selling and managing managers. He and his wife have two children.
Publications
The Campfire Standard: A Novel Inspired by “Just Show Up”
Can a human heart outrun a cold corporate machine? In a world driven by automated algorithms, logistics director Francis Castle refuses to let metrics dictate human worth. Ordered to purge three struggling underdogs, Francis instead defies a corporate scavenger to ennoble his team. When a catastrophic blizzard strikes and freezes critical medical payloads, Francis shatters the digital leash with a manual override.
Inspired by Frank Castelli’s philosophy, this pulse-pounding thriller explores moral courage, leadership, and leaving things better than you found them. When the system fails, Just Show Up.
The Campfire Standard is an earnest, ideas-driven blend of corporate strategy and moral conviction that effectively champions human value over artificial metrics.
Just Show Up: Antidote to Corporate Kool Aid
In this highly personal memoir, Frank Castelli presents an antidote to the corporate Kool-Aid. He reflects on his life, his career, his shortcomings, and his successes, offering readers principles, pearls of wisdom, alternative behavior, and ways to achieve both professional and personal goals.
This book is about sharing a lifetime of experiences that molded him into the person he became. He hopes his story will be informative, inspirational and motivational for readers, and that sharing his journey will allow them to view their own experiences a little differently and help make sense of what might be happening in their lives.
All in all, Just Show Up is an excellent book for everyone, but I’d say it can be an even more delightful read for teenagers or young adults who may feel like their life is doomed to be an endless paycheck-to-paycheck cycle. However, there is more to life, and the author’s history and his invitation for a chat in this short, easy-to-read book make it feel like it’s either dad or grandpa who’s talking to you, helping you find a good tread to grab and hold onto.