PROFILE
Dr Amy Silver is a psychologist, speaker, author and media commentator on sustainable high performance and the mindset to get us there individually and collectively. She partners with organisations, Boards, ET and SLTs and individuals to offer her leadership teaming programs, whole culture programs, executive coaching and offsites.
Amy’s programs help participants build the behaviours necessary to lead the future courageously whilst growing psychological safety. 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.
Amy has spent three decades as a psychologist developing content on how fear restricts us and safety expands us. 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 young family. She loves chasing her fears regularly on the soccer pitch.
SPEAKING TOPICS
Harnessing Fear: How To Get The Best Out Of Yourself. (Motivational/Leadership).
This keynote provokes your audience to tune into and control the way in which fear moderates their performance. Too much fear creates fight, flight and freeze responses which limit and destroy our potential leading to conflict, avoidance and passivity. Too little fear means we are not growing, not challenging ourselves, not motivating ourselves to do better or more.
With relatable humour and real life examples, Amy demonstrates how harnessing fear is the key to creating our most powerful self, one that is capable of achieving our important goals.
With an unforgettable metaphor of a party in our head, Amy shows your audience how to unlock self-compassion and use fear as a tool for growth. The speech builds towards the call to courageous action and is littered with immediately usable techniques steeped in the science of psychology. It changes the way that people think about their behaviour, and will change the way they lead themselves and others.
HIGHLIGHTS
- UNDERSTAND HOW FEAR SHOWS UP AT WORK
- RECOGNISE WHERE FEAR IS USEFUL
- PERSONIFY FEAR FOR A BETTER
- RELATIONSHIP
Courageous Leading: How To Create Trust And Psychological Safety.
There is nothing more important to achieving high performance as a collective than having the courage to act as leaders. Wasteful damage occurs in our teams and organisations when we avoid important (difficult?) conversations or new ways of doing things. We may see conflict from protective or defensive behaviours, rigid behaviours, people not sharing resources or ideas, and a lack of diverse thinking. This results in silos and impacts collaboration and innovation.
Strong leadership is about understanding how to create a space safe for courageous conversations and actions and then role modelling those behaviours. This inspirational speech provides practical strategies to drive deeper trust immediately, to create higher internal collaboration, maximise collective intelligence, make better decisions, have more efficiency, higher engagement, greater agility and higher energy.
HIGHLIGHTS
- INSIGHTS FOR BUILDING TRUST
- UNDERSTANDING SAFE ENVIRONMENTS
- DEVELOP COURAGEOUS COMMUNICATION
Emotion Mastery: How To Thrive.
Our ever-changing world means we have a responsibility to manage ourselves with resilience and wellbeing. Mastery of our emotions is how we will do this. This keynote gives your audience the space to pause, reflect and review their emotional self-care so they can recharge their control.
With deep compassion and healthy humour, this powerful speech is a gift to the audience and allows for a line in the sand to be drawn on any activities that may contribute to burnout or disengagement. The audience will walk away with a plan of action and a list of things to try to bring them to a healthy space, driving their high performance and energy management physically, emotionally and socially. This is a highly interactive experience allowing delegates to connect with each other and themselves.
HIGHLIGHTS
- PRACTICAL PERFORMANCE STRATEGIES
- INCREASED ENGAGEMENT
- ENERGY MANAGEMENT INSIGHTS
THE COURAGE TO LEAD THE FUTURE: High performance depends on our management of fear, individually and collectively (Leadership/Motivational)
Leadership is full of challenges. We have complex external situations, complex people issues and sometimes even more complex internal narratives (our thinking habits)! These challenges put pressure on us and make it more likely that we resort to the self-protection modes of avoidance, attack, apathy or acquiescence. Sometimes this works for us, and sometimes it adds to the complexity of the situation. Our unconscious reactions can sometimes make it difficult to communicate, collaborate, change, to make decisions. Our future success in this ever-changing, volatile world requires us as individuals and collectives to elevate above our automatic fear response and its corresponding behaviours into more conscious communication. The quality of our service and our work as leaders rely on us having the conversations that matter, creating psychological safety for our colleagues, and leading behavioural flexibility and courage. Our primal fear response although natural must be managed both individually and collectively for us to achieve our goals. This talk will show you how to lead courageously into the future for our growth, collectively and individually.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Building sustainable, agile collective intelligence is our job as leaders
- Fear eats our individual and collective capability
- The top actions to lead psychologically safe teams who are courageous in conversation, decision and actions
- The future belongs to leaders who can take and lead deliberate actions instead of being fear based automatic self protection reactions
3 TAKEAWAYS FOR PARTICIPANTS
- This keynote will you identify your automatic responses to pressure and normalise your unconscious reactions. By elevating your awareness you have a chance to evaluate the value of your behaviours and call yourself into making deliberate choices to get further toward your best self.
- You will see how and where fear inhibits and safety expands your success individually and collectively.
- Three practical tools to immediately help you as an individual leader, and your colleagues foster teaming behaviours to increase collective intelligence and high performance.
