Work made
effective
Understand your Effectiveness Architecture to drive:
- Organizational Decluttering
- Team and Department Dexterity
- Individual Breakthroughs
Work today can be a confusing, stressful mess.
But it doesn’t have to be.
Understand and power up your Effectiveness Architecture—for yourself, your team or your organization—and break through the chaos.
Anthrome Insight gives you the data- and evidence-led tools to do so—from energizing keynotes to action-oriented workshops to individual coaching to enablement at scale across populations. Define and supercharge your Knowledge, Methods, People, and Tech capabilities, and you’re ready to overcome longstanding challenges.
It’s wild out there. But we can help make you effective.
What We Do
and When to Work With Us:
Keynotes
Working with confidence as work changes fast—as we grapple with everything from ever-changing AI (and threat to jobs) to exhaustion and burnout at an unprecedented scale, what are the simple moves that help us get things done today—and position ourselves well for an unknowable future.
Workshops
Take a sticky business challenge—a stuck team, a stalled transformation, the AI journey, or just persistent productivity lags and pervasive burnout—and work through your Effectiveness Architecture, leveraging data and evidence, to come out the other side with a practical path to breakthrough.
Effectiveness Coaching:
Understand your Knowledge, Methods, People, and Tech ability, and forge a path to getting it all done in a way that works for you… and doesn’t lead to exhaustion. Coaching can be 1:1, technologically enabled across large populations, and anywhere in between.
Organizational and
team power-ups:
Take a key opportunity or challenge—at any level from a small team up to the whole organization—and define the Effectiveness Architecture using data and evidence. Then build a path to the future that’s pragmatic and truly… effective.
Who We Are:
Anthrome Insight is led by Melissa Swift, a landmark innovator in the organizational consulting space.
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, Effective: How to Do Great Work in a Fast-Changing World, coming 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.
Her work at Anthrome Insight today leverages the learnings from an array of large-scale people transformation work across industries ranging from life sciences to aerospace to professional services – distilling a host of complex projects into a straightforward strategy for effectiveness in a complex world of work.
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.
Partners
Brilliant people we work with
(and you should too)
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:
"Something's changing in our business"
New technologies, new markets, new competitors - how can you best position your team- leaders and workforce alike - to support changed business goals?
"We need this team, group, or function to perform better"
Organizations today dream of the teams of the future while struggling with the capabilities and ways of working for the present. Can an evidence- driven look at your people help get your team - of whatever size - to the next level?
"We have a persistent people glitch"
People in a critical role keep quitting. A whole group of folks are mysteriously ineffective. A structural change just isn't working. What are the true roots of your people problem - and what does solving it really look like?
"I myself want to work better"
The trickiest part of being a leader today is honestly just navigating the jungle of how work gets done. We'll work with you to re-engineer your working days and working ways to minimize exhaustion and maximize impact.
"Help, our transformation is stuck"
You've invested time and money to rethink your business - but your transformation efforts are strangely motionless. Can people be the lever to get things moving again - and if so, what needs to shift?
"It's time for us to be intentional about our people"
Your organization has hit a maturity or inflection point where it's critical to get leaders, workforces, and work right. Can a smart, minimalist people strategy change your organization's future?
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.
Brilliant people we work with
(and you should too)
In The Media
Check out Melissa's writing for MIT Sloan Management Review
When Team Accountability Is Low: Four Hard Questions for Leaders
Tough talk will not solve the problem of people who don’t take accountability for their actions. Rather, a leader must identify what’s stopping people from behaving better — and take a look in the mirror.
Three Nonnegotiable Leadership Skills for 2025
As we kick off a new year, what are the handful of skills leaders must have to navigate a tricky moment in the history of human work? And what does research tell us about how to build those leadership skills?
Four Leadership Loads That Keep Getting Heavier
You dreamed of being an inspiring leader, but you’re fighting fires every day instead. Here are no-nonsense tips for managing the stress of leading in “interesting” times.
Banish the Harmful Creatures of COVID-Era Work
The busy bee. The keyboard lion. The groupthink goose: We tolerated them at the height of the pandemic, but leaders must now deal with these characters and end feral ways of working.
Warm Hearts, Cold Reality: How to Build Team Empathy
Empathetic leaders are not enough when an organization’s systems, processes, and decisions telegraph a lack of caring. Here are four strategies to fix the problem.
Leading in the Age of Exploding Transparency
The seasoned CIO wakes up groggy to a flurry of texts from his team, who found out about the CEO’s retirement from LinkedIn because the internal announcement got stuck in everyone’s spam filters.
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