Meet Amy and Team!
Dr Amy Silver
Clin PsyD MPhil MA BSc(Hons)
Dr Amy Silver is a psychologist, speaker, facilitator, and coach. She partners with powerful leadership teams to help foster sustainable high performance. Amy’s expertise is in understanding how to activate the best of people so they can reach collective goals through conversations characterised by high courage and high compassion. Her role is to engage individuals and teams in their most conscious (as opposed to reactive) practice, supporting and preparing them to lead together, through the complexities of our now and our future courageously.
Amy has spent over three decades developing IP on how fear restricts us and safety expands us individually and collectively. Her team delivers a range of powerful programs and facilitates for clients including NFPs, Associations, Local Govt, State Govt, Govt Agencies, educational, and public health sectors, as well as larger and global organisations within the financial, energy, retail, conservation, and pharma industries.
Amy has a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Masters's in Forensic Psychiatry, Master's in Performance, Bachelor's with Honours in Psychology, and further therapeutic training in cognitive therapies such as Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Compassion Therapy, and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. She has taught and researched for Oxford University and had a number of clinical roles before she moved her focus to how fear impacts us at work.
She is a regular media commentator on how we can drive high performance by being courageous with the way we connect (including to ourselves), communicate, and make complex decisions for the greater good. She can be seen talking or writing about how fear and other emotions impact our choices including Harvard Business Review (HR), ABC Radio, The Australian, HR Director, AFR, CEO World and is a regular on New Zealand’s The AM Show.
Her book, The Loudest Guest: How to Control and Change Your Relationship with Fear is a game-changer for those ready to move beyond fear. This book received two awards (Silver medalist, Living Now Awards 2021; Finalist in The Australian Career Book Award, 2021) and a best seller on Amazon. It is available in all good bookstores, as an audiobook and digital form. It is also featured on Blinkist.
Her previous book, Conversations Create Growth is a time saver for all managers who want to foster growth through every conversation they have.
Originally from London in the UK, Amy lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her young family. She loves chasing her fears regularly on the soccer pitch.
Amy has a small number of highly trusted facilitators who act as associates to scale her programs. Graham is a highly prized senior facilitator on such projects.