Why Anthrome Insight exists
Today's fiendish challenges around leadership, workforces, and workplaces call for us to put our detective hats on and employ a multidisciplinary approach.
Here are some of the complex "people stuff" problems Anthrome Insight helps solve:
“In a tough moment, we need a performance breakthrough”
Organizations today dream of the teams of the future while struggling with a challenging landscape in the present. We help organizations, teams, and individuals define and hone what makes them effective, and to then deploy pragmatic strategies to make progress amidst chaos.
"We want to make technology-driven progress, but are struggling to get people on the journey”
Today, the possibilities of technologies like AI seem infinite – but truly marshalling them for market impact is proving a difficult organizational issue. We help organizations and teams fix the human-tech interaction at the root, making progress with an array of technologies faster and smoother.
"I myself want to be more effective at work. And I’ve tried everything."
The trickiest part of being a leader today – and perhaps the most neglected - is honestly just navigating the jungle of how work gets done. We'll work with you on practical approaches to re-engineer your working days and working ways to get it all done better (minimizing exhaustion and burnout along the way).
"Our leaders are struggling with the workforce challenges of the last few years"
COVID is years in the rear-view mirror, but we have yet to hit a good equilibrium again about how work gets done. We provide a structured space for leaders grappling with everything from the incursion of social media into the workplace to the integration of AI into teams to recalibrate their approach based on research-validated approaches to truly changed ways of working.
About Us
A track record of changing the conversation
Anthrome Insight is led by Melissa Swift, an innovative organizational consultant. Melissa is the author of
Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace - and is at work on a second book for Wiley available June 2026.
As a leader at Korn Ferry, Capgemini, Mercer, and Deloitte, Melissa has developed novel and market-leading analytical techniques to better understand and address the human side of organizations. She has led large-scale people transformation work across industries ranging from life sciences to aerospace to professional services.
Work Here Now - which explores such topics as the three kinds of broken work, the Work Anxiety Monster, and Couples Counseling for Humans and Technology - has been recognized as a groundbreaking business resource by Thinkers50, Porchlight Books, and McKinsey's Annual Book Recommendations for 2024.
This is how we do it
How we help organizations, teams, and leaders
Keynotes and gatherings
We offer punchy, data-rich, provocative talks and workshops designed to get people thinking differently about how to be effective – centered on topics such as fostering team accountability, grappling with a technology-rich landscape, and operating sensibly in a highly transparent world.
Effectiveness journeys
We bring leading research and insight about how work is changing today – and take teams, groups, and organizations on a four step experiential and participatory journey defining what to do differently. Where needed, we look at often-ignored data sets like the day to day experience of technology, the quantitative nature of human interactions, and how work is being systematized…deriving heretofore unseen pathways to success.
Leader and team coaching for effectiveness
Leveraging an approach that can compliment traditional behavioral-based interventions, we coach leaders and teams on how to better understand their sources of effectiveness, think like job and organizational designers themselves, and better navigate contemporary challenges in a chaotic world.
