We live in a world littered with digital distraction and temptation. It's time to reinvent the way you work.
Dr Amantha Imber is an organisational psychologist and founder of the award-winning behaviour change consultancy Inventium. She has worked with companies such as Google, Apple, Disney, LEGO, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft to help boost AI capability, productivity, innovation and wellbeing.
In 2021, Amantha was the first Australian to win the Thinkers50 Innovation Award (described by the Financial Times as the ‘Oscars for Management Thinking’).
In 2025, Amantha was recognised at the Australian AI Awards, where she won AI Consultant of the Year and the AI Excellence Award, the latter chosen from the highest-scoring individual winners across all categories to recognise the top performer of the year.
Amantha is also the host of the number one ranking business podcast How I Work, which has had over 6 million downloads, where she interviews some of the world’s most successful people about their habits, strategies, and rituals.
Amantha’s thoughts have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Forbes, and Fast Company and she is the author of five bestselling books, including international bestseller Time Wise. Her books have been translated into over 10 languages, and her latest book The Energy Game is out now.
Talking Points
AI-Powered Productivity: Mastering AI to 10x Your Impact
We've been sold AI as a shortcut to more time, yet most people are still typing vague prompts and hoping for the best. This keynote treats AI as a collaborator rather than an oracle, and shows why understanding your own thinking is the real key to working with it well.AI-Powered Productivity: Mastering AI to 10x Your Impact
KEY TAKEAWAYS
A framework for building a productive partnership with AI, techniques to sharpen clarity and creativity, a delegation method that actually works, and the judgement to know when to lean on AI and when to back yourself.
Tiny Tweaks, Big Shifts: The Small Steps That Lead to Massive Change
Real change doesn’t come from overhauling your life overnight. It comes from tiny, strategic tweaks. Discover the hidden mental glitches sabotaging your goals and how to fix them for good.Tiny Tweaks, Big Shifts: The Small Steps That Lead to Massive Change
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Spot the barriers holding you back, use counterintuitive strategies to make habits stick, and see how small changes create huge impact.
Innovation Survivor: How to outthink, outsmart, and outlast your competitors
Breakthrough ideas aren’t about luck, they’re about process. Learn the science behind inventive thinking and how to use it to solve problems, spark creativity, and disrupt the competition.Innovation Survivor: How to outthink, outsmart, and outlast your competitors
KEY TAKEAWAYS
A toolkit for breakthrough thinking, strategies to outsmart competitors, and ways to build an innovation culture.
Find Your Focus: Science-backed strategies for turbo-charging productivity and wellbeing
Email, social media, and endless notifications make focused work hard to sustain. Amantha reveals science-backed strategies to structure days for peak performance, cut distraction, and build habits that stick.Find Your Focus: Science-backed strategies for turbo-charging productivity and wellbeing
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Strategies to conquer busyness, techniques to structure days for deep work and flow, and the simple shift that wins back two hours in every workday.
The Energy Game: A Science-Backed System to Recharge Without Pressing Pause on Life
Exhaustion has become the default setting, and the usual fixes rarely touch the real cause: chronic depletion. Drawing on a study of 1300 people who lifted their energy by 40 per cent in five days, Amantha delivers a system for rebuilding energy inside a real schedule, no retreat required.The Energy Game: A Science-Backed System to Recharge Without Pressing Pause on Life
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Identifying your Energy Type, managing the three energy accounts most people mismanage, five-minute strategies backed by evidence, and tools to spot and neutralise Energy Vampires.
The Hidden Cost of AI: Beating "Brainfry" and Reclaiming Your Focus
AI promised to hand back our time, but for many it has simply swapped one drain for another: the constant work of prompting, checking and switching between tools. Amantha calls this AI brainfry, and shows how the principles that rebuild energy elsewhere can rescue a mind run ragged by supervising machines.The Hidden Cost of AI: Beating "Brainfry" and Reclaiming Your Focus
KEY TAKEAWAYS
The science behind AI brainfry, a diagnostic for the energy account AI hits hardest, tools to spot AI-shaped Energy Vampires, and boundaries that turn AI into a real productivity multiplier.
Video
Dr Amantha Imber | Keynote Speaker | Productivity, Wellbeing & Behaviour Change
Practical and proven strategies to make you happier, healthier, and more productive.Saxton Fireside Chat with Creativity and Innovation Psychologist Amantha Imber
The exchange of stories and ideas is more important now than ever. In this bi-weekly series of virtual Fireside Chats, you can gain unprecedented access to the world's greatest storytellers and thought leaders. In this intimate session, Amantha will share her insights into how to maximise your organisation's capabilities while working from home.Dr Amantha Imber | Keynote Speaker | Reinvent the Way You Work
Dr Amantha Imber is an organisational psychologist, founder of Australia's leading innovation consultancy Inventium, and co-creator of the Australian Financial Review's Most Innovative Companies list. Amantha has helped companies such as Google, Apple, Disney, LEGO, Virgin Australia, Commonwealth Bank and many others innovate more successfully and reinvent the way they approach their work. For more on Amantha check out her profile on our website: https://www.saxton.com.au/speakers/amantha-imber Saxton has been representing the world's leading thought leaders for over 50 years. We specialise in providing perfect speakers and entertainers for any event or conference. With a long history of quality service, be sure to contact us to experience the Saxton Difference: https://www.saxton.com.au/enquire/Inventium's GenAI x Productivity Masterclass
A sneak peak into Inventium's full day masterclass to turn you into a GenAI expert.Amantha blew us away! ... keep reading Medibank Private
Amantha recently led an interactive keynote with the Disney Consumer Products team, which bowled everyone over. Amantha's style is disarming, engaging and thought provoking. She presented pragmatic insights in such a way that the team felt really empowered to take the information and run with it. Was a wonderful reset moment and we're all looking forward to living more of our best work life. Thoroughly recommend.
Like most people, I'm only half listening to the presentations towards the end of conferences. That's because my attention is focused on the long list of emails on the BlackBerry I'm hiding under the table. Amantha Imber's presentation was different. It was compelling, intrusive, provocative and insightful. I powered off my BlackBerry and listened.
Amantha is a person who makes a lasting impression and changes people's lives. There aren't many who can claim that. Of course it helps that she has a PhD in cognitive behaviour, but she combines her deep expertise with an exceptional gift to teach and inspire and enthuse and build deep personal connections with people from all walks of life, culture creed and colour. She teaches the most complex science in a way that makes it seem simple, easy and very do-able. She is also one of the most professional people I have ever worked with- reliable, prepared, personable. I love working with her!
Amantha provides her audience with strategies that are directly translatable into practice no small feat given the phobias and anxieties that a large number of people experience when reflecting upon their own personal levels of creativity. I recently invited Amantha Imber to present both a keynote address and a workshop at a conference for Tasmanian teachers. Amantha's keynote was exceptional and profoundly moving for me as a person and as an educator. The conference has since proven to be something of a hit. The 'secret weapon', in my opinion, was Amantha Imber!
Amantha Imber's presentation was a refreshing change. Clearly a gifted public speaker, she implored us to 'crush our assumptions', 'go wide', and 'step into the shoes of others', in order to stimulate creativity in our marketing teams. It set a creative tone for the conference and engaged the delegates on several levels. I would recommend Amantha as a conference speaker to other conference organisers looking to get the most for their delegates and add a little spice to their planned schedule.
