Let's fix work.
Wish your team, your organization, or even you could navigate today's confusing world of work a little better? If you're finding "the people stuff" challenging, you're not alone. Work today is broken, and traditional tools aren't enough.
At Anthrome Insight, we solve people problems differently. We're rooted in evidence - listening strenuously to the best research and the nuances of data across an array of sources. We're multidisciplinary, understanding traditional siloed people solutions won't cut it. And we're minimalists - knowing that organizations are overloaded, crowded, and noisy.
Work with us and address your people challenges in a lasting way.
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?
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?
A track record of changing the conversation
Anthrome Insight is led by Melissa Swift, an innovative organizational consultant and author of Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace. 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.
Anthrome Insight understands that no consultant is an island, and people problems require thinking from many angles. Particularly as you drive from strategy into ground-level change to working practices and leadership behaviors, some of the smartest approaches live in a broader ecosystem of smaller providers. Accordingly, we partner with the sharpest minds and most cutting-edge boutique firms in the market on a project-by-project basis. Check them out on this page. Need help that's not in our wheelhouse? For topics like compensation, we know the smartest practitioners and are happy to make a referral.
Check out Melissa's writing for MIT Sloan Management Review
Brilliant people we work with (and you should too)
Seeking truth through data science
Moving from big ideas to lasting change
Linking structure and behavior
Driving performance through People
Unlocking leaders' full potential
Redefining the purpose of place
On networking culture in a global context
Turning corporate goals into reality with collective behavior change
This is how we do it
How we help organizations, teams, and leaders
Keynotes and other talks
Want to get people thinking differently about "people stuff"? We offer punchy, data-rich, provocative talks on people topics from technology overload to team accountability
Workshops and other gatherings
Bringing people together to hammer out a key people, team, or organizational issue? You bring the folks, we bring leading research and shape a conversation for real answers.
Quests
Got a people, team, or organizational issue you're wrestling mightily with? Send us on a quest. We'll bring your data and evidence together with the best outside thinking to crack the code.
People strategy
Need to ensure your organization, workforce, or group takes action on people that really drives the business forward? Leveraging the best research and evidence, we help you pick the few actions that will really move the needle.
