Helping business leaders simplify work, improve productivity, and unlock their team’s potential.
Work Better Studio helps CEOs, founders and leadership teams identify where work is getting stuck, focus on what matters most, and lead practical improvement through the business.
A practical, people-centred approach to improving how work gets done
As businesses grow, complexity creeps in. Processes multiply, managers get stretched, and teams spend more time coordinating work than delivering value.
Work Better Studio helps business leaders identify where work is getting stuck, then supports them and their teams to build better ways of working over time.
How Work Better Studio helps
The core of the work is practical advisory support - helping businesses understand where performance is being lost, what to tackle first, and how to make improvement stick.
That can include leadership support, team workshops, manager development, and practical tools or learning resources where useful.
What better ways of working can unlock
Some examples drawn from Anthony’s operational improvement work in service environments:
70% reduction in finance function workload.
Net Promoter Score improved from 34 to 71.
€200k annual cost reduction in one cost centre.
Anthony Collins, Founder,
Work Better Studio
Led by Anthony Collins
Work Better Studio was founded by Anthony Collins, a practitioner with decades of experience running and improving complex, service-led organisations.
His approach combines real operational leadership with deep experience applying Lean principles in service and office environments - where work is invisible, variable, and human-led.
His work has been recognised internationally, including hosting best practice visits on behalf of Enterprise Ireland and the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation.
Who this is for
Typically, this work is most relevant for:
CEOs and founders of growing service businesses
COOs and leadership teams improving execution
Investment partners and boards supporting growth, readiness or integration
Better performance starts with better ways of working
If operational friction is slowing growth, stretching managers, or making execution harder than it should be, let’s talk.