Connection is a competitive advantage.
We help leaders and teams create communities where real conversations flow, relationships deepen, and engagement is a meaningful exchange, not a metric.
How can we help you?
Leadership is a creative act.
The bottom line makes building credibility, trust and connection hard. Where we need courage and creativity, so many default to org charts, titles, and vanity metrics.
It's why so many businesses fail to create a sense of belonging and why so many employees feel exploited. It's why our work is directed by three virtues.
Wholeness over Rightness
Wholeness is a superpower. It creates space for kindness, adaptability, and vulnerability. It disrupts defensiveness and reveal to leaders when to break from the status quo. Wholeness creates the context for collaboration and innovation to thrive.
Reciprocity over Extraction
Reciprocity transforms groups into ecosystems of shared interest, advocacy, and trust. The movement from "me" to "we," liberates organisations to become communities of practice; adaptive systems where everyone can grow, together.
Sovereignty over Commodity
Sovereignty honours agency and autonomy rather than treating people as targets or resources. Manipulation rots, genuine connections emerge, and shared ownership forms. It's the cornerstone of trust and advocacy.
We're here because connection is power.
Helping founders get found.
We help leaders and founders take practical action to close the gap between vision and execution.
Helping teams find purpose.
We help leaders and teams shape a collective culture where people know their worth and their why.
Helping people feel seen.
We help leaders and founders find community where every conversation is worth the time.
We're the hosts.
We bring people together.
Over 1000 people have joined our network and attend curated meetups. We're building a world where people can easily find genuinely valuable connections and learn from their exceptional peers.
We help people connect.
We help leaders, teams, and founders breakthrough by creating the space for the conversations people need to have and challenge the points of friction and busy-work that distract big vision people.
We're the guide, not the hero.
Our reviews and testimonial speak for themselves.
Meet the Founder.
Dan Dowman is a strategic partner to the courageous. To those ready to get real about what's killing their momentum and ready to get out of their own way.
Known for his signature warmth, wisdom and relatability, Dan’s approach is deeply practical. He has helped some of the world's biggest brands achieve cultural impact and today helps founders and a leaders close the gap between their big ideas and execution.
Want to meet?
30+
Cultural impact projects delivered across verticals and categories.
20+
Years in culture strategy, branding, marketing, and messaging.
68%
Faster cross-function collaboration for leading brands.
100K
Training and resources rolled out globally to over 100,000 employees.
There are more of us than we realise.
A podcast, a newsletter, and a series of free online gatherings for like-souled leaders to meet, reflect, and grow their network. Will you join the Crush?
“Anthem are leading an urgent work. I have found their Founder, Dan to be a remarkably composed communicator, who is able to turn ’nice to haves’ into essential brand differentiators.”
Kat Kennan
CEO, Radical Customer Experience
"They're not afraid to ask the big questions that help brands stand out in a crowded marketplace. Dan and his team help brands connect their purpose and I can’t recommend them highly enough."
Sunny Singh
Group Commercial Director
“I love the work that Anthem does. Dan's relatability and strategic outlook means that Anthem has an uncanny ability for blending the right tools and tactics with powerful human stories..”
Hannah Brady
Director, The Brady Creative
"Collaboration is a skill. Anthem understands this and uses clear, simple and practical tools that people can learn to supercharge their ability to collaborate and create effectively."
Marcus de Vale
Director, WorkVisible Studios
“I have had the pleasure of working with their Founder on a range of projects from start-up ideation to organisational development at scale and am excited to see what this next chapter holds.”
John Haynes
CEO, Switch Learning
"What has impressed me about Dan and the team at Anthem is their remarkable ability to navigate complex concepts and simplify them in a way that everyone can understand and buy into."
Phillip Stemann
Founder, Planzer.io
“I’m thrilled with the results of the work! I’ve taken a great deal of enjoyment and value from working together, way above the tangible deliveries of the proposal. This is the start of bigger things.”
Darren Nicholl
Founder, Human Engineers
"Dan's questions were excellent. His ability to truly listen was an art. When he did speak, he was insightful and really made me think. One of the best interviews I've ever experienced."
Justin Bariso