Energetic & relatable, activating audiences and inspiring change
Dr Amy Silver delivers psychology-based keynotes on courage, mindset, behavioural change and emotional regulation for sustainable high performance for conferences and corporate events, in person or online, globally. Keynotes can be delivered as a workshop or supplement a keynote.
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KEYNOTE/WORKSHOP ONE:
The Courage to Lead the Future
KEYNOTE/WORKSHOP TWO:
How Flexible are You? Catching your Autopilot, Switching to Manual Drive
KEYNOTE/WORKSHOP THREE:
Your Best Self Blueprint
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GLOBAL IN PERSON
& GLOBAL ONLINE
Amy's keynotes translate clinical and organisational psychology into practical, immediately usable tools for workforces in complex, changing or demanding environments. Delivered with humour, story, and a strong connection to the audience. Topics available as 40–60 minute keynotes or extended into half/full-day workshops.
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. See last page in this pack.
As a highly qualified psychologist , Amy’s academic background include teaching at Oxford University, researching and practicing as a specialist Clinical Psychologist.
Amy now helps leaders change cultures and embed high performance behaviours of courage, emotion management, deep connection and communication.
Examples of Topics on Psychology of Work
Courage to Lead the Future
Hope and Agency
How to motivate
Better Together
Conversations Create Growth
Better Performance Conversations
Better Together
How to Lead Yourself
Sustainable High Performance
Emotional Regulation
Wellbeing for Best Self
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
Available as:
40-60min keynotes
45min to one day workshops
online/in person
Australia and APAC
global
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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
CONFERENCE
KEYNOTE ONE
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
CONFERENCE
KEYNOTE TWO
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.
CONFERENCE
KEYNOTE THREE
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
FAQ — Keynotes
What keynote topics does Dr Amy Silver speak on?
Three core keynotes: The Courage to Lead the Future (managing fear and building courage), How Flexible Are You? (catching autopilot patterns and building behavioural flexibility), and Your Best Self Blueprint (sustainable high performance) — plus related topics on trust, influence, and conversation.
How long are Dr Amy Silver's keynotes?
40–60 minutes as a standalone keynote, or extendable into a half-day or full-day workshop.
Does Dr Amy Silver speak in person or online?
Both — keynotes are delivered in person and as global online sessions.
What's Dr Amy Silver's speaking background?
A clinical psychologist (DClinPsy) and published author (The Loudest Guest, Conversations Create Growth), with corporate clients including ANZ, MMG, Specsavers, KPMG, Telstra, and UniSuper, Government (Local and State), Government Agencies, Associations and media commentary for Sky News, the Australian Financial Review, and Harvard Business Review. She also was a teacher and researcher at Oxford University, UK. She has a Masters in Performance and a Masters in Forensic Psychiatry.
How do I book Dr Amy Silver for an event?
Email hello@dramysilver.com or use the contact form at dramysilver.com/contact-amy.
Does Amy have information for MCs and Conference Organisers?
Yes! See below!
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