Built on real operating experience
Work Better Studio was founded by Anthony Collins to help CEOs and leadership teams improve how work gets done - not in theory, but in practice.
For over 25 years, Anthony has founded, led and improved businesses across Ireland, UK and Europe through rapid growth, acquisitions, the financial crisis, Brexit and Covid. Most recently, as Group CEO of Topflight Travel Group, he oversaw multiple businesses and international teams in complex service operations.
Across those years, a consistent pattern emerged. As organisations grow, complexity builds. Decisions slow down, managers become bottlenecks, good people get buried in admin, and customers feel the effects long before leadership does.
Anthony’s work - long before Work Better Studio existed - was to address that by creating clarity, restoring flow and building internal capability rather than relying on heroics.
Grounded in best practice
In 2010, Anthony was introduced to the concept of Lean thinking which kick-started a journey which included achieving Lean Six Sigma Black Belt qualification and hands-on exposure to the Toyota Production System across operations in Japan, the UK and Europe.
This shaped Anthony’s view of Lean as a practical management system: a way to make better decisions, surface problems earlier, and help teams improve their own work.
Anthony’s work has included hosting best-practice visits for Enterprise Ireland and the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, as well as speaking at events organised by Lean Business Ireland, Invest Northern Ireland and Trinity College Dublin.
His achievements in management have been recognised by the Deloitte Best Managed Company and Deloitte Fast 50 programmes.
Why Work Better Studio?
In 2026, Anthony founded Work Better Studio to bring a practical, operator-led approach to a wider range of businesses.
Work Better Studio works best with CEOs, founders and leadership teams in growing service businesses where work is complex, people-dependent and often harder to see than it should be.
Support typically starts with advisory work: understanding where performance is being lost, what to tackle first, and how to build better ways of working that the business can sustain.
Workshops, learning resources and tools can support that work where useful, but the priority is always practical improvement inside the business.