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Your patterns built your success. Their flexibility builds what's next.

Profile

Dr Amy Silver ClinPsyD MPhil MA BSc(Hons) CATDip MAPS is a psychologist and expert on the mindset to get us to be our best both individually and collectively. Having

spent three decades as a Clinical Psychologist she researched and practiced in the management of fear. With three postgraduate degrees and having taught at Oxford

University for over 3 years, Amy now works with organisations delivering behaviour change and leadership programs, executive team programs, coaching and facilitation.

Amy’s programs help participants build the behaviours necessary to lead the future courageously whilst growing psychological safety for high accountability and sustainable

performance. These programs call individuals and teams into their most conscious (as opposed to reactive) practice, supporting and preparing them to lead together,

through the complexities of our now and our future. Her work helps people lead, raising courage, driving effective conversations and psychological safety.

A showreel of Amy at work on the bigger stages can be seen here.

Amy has spent three decades as a psychologist developing content on how the mindsets and behaviours of success.

Amy has a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Masters in Forensic Psychiatry, Masters in Performance, Bachelor with Honours in Psychology, a Diploma in Cognitive Analytic

Therapy and further therapeutic training. She spent three years teaching at Oxford University and had several senior clinical roles before she moved her focus to how fear

impacts us at work. She is regularly featured in the media talking about how fear and other emotions impact our choices including Harvard Business Review (HR) and ABC

Radio. Her award-winning and an Amazon best seller book, The Loudest Guest: How to control and change your relationship with fear is a game-changer for those ready to

move beyond fear. Her previous book Conversations Create Growth is a book to aid managers have ongoing performance conversations that matter.

Originally from London in the UK, Amy lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her family. She loves chasing her fears regularly on the soccer pitch.

Expertise

Talking Points

Pyschology of Work (Workshop or Keynote)

Available in: 40-60min keynotes 45-one day workshops online/in person

Amy’s skill is in quickly creating a strong relationship with her audiences using humour and story to tap into the science of psychology.

She enables people to safely reflect and connect with our responsiblity to evolve no matter what we face.

Amy inspires more courage, deeper connections, emotion management and stronger leadership of others.

She is a thought leader in the area of Courage, psychological safety and alignment through conversation.

Amy has two published books in the area of (1) Courage and fear (2) Conversational Excellence.

Examples of Topics on Psychology of Work:
- Courage to Lead the Future
- Hope and Agency
- How to motivate
- Better Together
- Conversations
Create Growth
- Psychological Safety
- Mindset
-change
-How to Lead Yourself
- Sustainable High Performance
- Patterns of Success (thoughts, behaviours, emotions)
- Courage and Confidence
- How to have courageous conversations
- Psychological Safety
- Aligning your team
- Collective Intelligence
- How to Influence
- Psychological Science of Leadership
- Emotional Regulation
- Wellbeing for Best Self

How Flexible Are You? Catching your Autopilot, Switching to Manual Drive

Explores how habitual thought/behaviour patterns (the "autopilot") help us move efficiently but can become rigid and counterproductive when overused. Teaches audiences to recognise their four most common patterns, see where each helps or hinders them, and consciously shift into "manual drive" deliberately choosing how they think, feel, and act rather than running on default settings. Also shows the audience the key skills and the ‘how to’ on shifting between patterns and allows audience to walk away with tools specific to their individual dominant patterns.

Most of us know the experience of driving on autopilot, arriving somewhere without remembering the journey, or worse, ending up somewhere we never meant to go.

Our thoughts, feelings and behaviours work the same way. We build habitual patterns from what's worked before, efficient shortcuts that help us move through the world. These patterns often serve us well, but they can also take us off course in two ways.

Firstly, the patterns themselves may hinder us from reaching our goals. For example, always putting others first can tip into self-neglect. Or a drive for excellence can harden into perfectionism or over-control, with costs to ourselves and the people around us.

Secondly, when a pattern becomes too dominant, we lose flexibility altogether. We get brittle, stuck, unable to adapt as situations change, losing our curiosity on what would work best at this time, preferring to run with what we've done before. Running on autopilot, we miss the choices available to us that could bring us closer to the outcome, connection, satisfaction, pride, vitality and joy we seek. But our context never stays still, and autopilot can't read this unique situation, the conversation, person, this moment, this goal. Only we can do that.

In this keynote Amy will teach you how to:

Recognise the four most common patterns, work out which are most dominant for you, and see where each one helps or hinders you.

Override those dominant patterns and build the agility that each situation requires.

Shift into manual drive, consciously choosing how you think, feel and act, so you arrive where you want to go.

The Courage to Lead the Future

Helps audiences understand how fear (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) shapes decisions, conversations, and collective capability — and gives a 6-step framework (from Amy's award-winning book The Loudest Guest) to lead with more courage in action, conversation, and connection.

The human brain was not designed to head into challenge, change or new’ness, it was designed for survival and comfort! This leads us to fear based decision making about what we do or don’t do, how we talk to each other and how we show up.

The future requires us to be courageous in our actions, our communication and our connections with others.

Amy will help you discover your next move in leading yourself and those around you towards greater success. You will immediately apply the 6 steps from her award, best selling book The Loudest Guest to lift your courage to have a profound impact on your actions, conversations and connections at work (and…at home!).

The Courage to Lead the Future
KEY POINTS

fear holds us back (flight, flight, freeze, fawn) and impacts our collective capability

strong self and other leadership requires us to codify how we manage our thoughts, feelings and behaviours so we can excel

fear or irritation are emotions that can be managed whatever our circumstances

courage is THE action that enables effective decision making, connection and communication

courage has a simple formula with 6 steps

self leadership is our responsibility

action plan

Your Best Self Blueprint

Focused on sustainable high performance: managing the space between trigger and reaction, identifying personal patterns and habits that undermine progress, and building a practical action plan around the five key elements of "best self" leadership.
Leading ourselves towards sustainable high-performance even when things are difficult is a skill that matters to the success of our business and our wellbeing as individuals.

Translating deep psychological principles into simple usable tools, this keynote inspires us to manage the space between our triggers and our reactions. Only there, can we deliberately choose our response so we serve our longer term goals.

Your values are important as a guide but your behaviour today is what will create your future. Importantly there are 5 key elements of our human best self and we need a plan of action for each of them. The Best Self Blueprint is your tool to keep you (and each other) accountable to the patterns of thinking and behaviour that serve your goals. Unpick those pesky habits that undermine your power or progress. Be the best self version of you, the world needs you to be!

KEY POINTS

self management is our first responsibility when we work with others

the five principles that impact our ability to manage self

what are your triggers and what are your patterns?

your why - your values and goals

your how - instructions on your Best Self Blueprint

action plan

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Dr Amy Silver | Psychology-Based Leadership Development Expert

Feedback

We are so very fortunate to have Amy and her team working with us across our whole organisation, including the Executive team, to help give us the tools and conversations that embed a cultu ... keep readingre of strong communication and high trust. UniSuper

Amy's presentation style is relaxed and engaging, and she makes it easy to participate. Her depth of knowledge, psychology, human behaviour, emotional intelligence, business and change is excellent. I recommend using Amy's services particularly wher you are wanting to develop leadership and enhance culture.

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