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About the Author

Melissa Swift is a leading voice on how organizations, teams, and individuals can succeed in an ever more challenging world of work. As founder and CEO of Anthrome Insight, she is a practicing consultant and keynote speaker helping organizations with data-driven views and concrete strategies to shape a productive future in chaotic times. She has held consulting leadership roles at Capgemini, Mercer, Korn Ferry, and Deloitte, and is the author of Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace, as well as the current title.

Throughout her career, Melissa has leveraged unconventional analytics and broken down traditional people consulting siloes to provide actionable guidance on topics such as the organizational side of digital transformation and the changing nature of leadership in the C-suite and beyond. Both a humanist and a pragmatist, Melissa has continually explored the balance of maximizing human potential and worker health while simultaneously achieving outstanding business outcomes.

Melissa is a member of the MIT Sloan Management Review’s Editorial Board and one of the publication’s most widely read columnists. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Newsweek, and a host of other prestigious publications, as well as appearances on NPR (National Public Radio). Melissa was named in the Thinkers50 Radar class of 2023, and Work Here Now appeared on awards lists from McKinsey and Porchlight ...