Amy, Team and In the Media!

​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.

Client Testimonials

Amy works with clients around the world.
Here’s what they have to say…

Fiona Fouvy | Head of Organisational Development

Bendigo Kangan Institute is a major training provider with campuses across Victoria. Dr. Silver's workshops with our Senior Leadership Team and mid-level leaders are part of our cultural and leadership transformation program, where we are committed to positive and supportive, high-performance leadership. Our leaders have been resoundingly impressed by Amy’s training. She is a talented facilitator who draws on her deep expertise in human behaviour to help leaders build psychological safety and to have courageous and effective conversations, with compassion. She is engaging, attuned to her audience, and uses storytelling to connect her leaders to the content. The content is grounded in science, but Amy presents it in a relatable and practical way, with actionable takeaways. She exudes optimism and non-judgment and brings lightness and fun to her workshops.  As a result, Amy consistently creates an environment where defenses seem to melt away to enable leaders to do the work of working on themselves.  Countless leaders have quietly shared with me that through her workshop, they’ve understood themselves better, and been able to see and explore blindspots. Her session with our senior leaders was a turning point in creating the shift in deepening trust and connection that we’d been working towards. She created the safety and compassion in the room that enabled this to happen.

Sarah R. | Exec

Amy was engaging and gave really practical tools to support public servants in their communication. I would love to hear more from her in the future. This was excellent and so much thought provoking content.

Johann | Founder

Without question, Amy is one of the most psychologically present, calm, disarming and clear thinking people I have come across in business. Amy used these traits and her depth knowledge of clinical psychology to coach and mentor several colleagues to attain great outcomes. Amy is also an outstanding qualitative researcher. I recommend Amy to any executive looking for a credentialed, scientific thinker to add value to talent and consumer insights functions.

Candice | Executive

Working with Amy was a fantastic experience. She challenged the thinking I had traditionally had about myself, enabling me to use a different approach to my work. She also helped me with tools that I'd not used before in managing my team which produced great results!

William | Director

Amy is charismatic, conscientious, knowledgeable and a fun person to lead groups but also an incredible asset as a coach. If you have the opportunity to work with Amy, I would take it!

Chris | Principal and Business Advisor

The work with Amy will now drive future positive behaviours within our business. Where trust is high, the partnership between stakeholders is creative, efficiency is high and growth is rapid. Doesn't this make business easier?

Peter | Chief Executive Officer

Amy Silver is a rare combination of heart and head. She is a world class thinker and author on the art and science of influence, and how that applies to leadership and communication. She’s been to Oxford University, and has a Dr. in front of her name, so you have to be impressed with her credentials. But much more than that, she is one of the most generous souls you will ever meet, and a person of deep wisdom. She walks her talk, and shows up everywhere in her world with authenticity and courage (and occasionally with a mischievous glint in her eye). If you get a chance to work with Amy, you’d be mad not to take it.

Janine | Director

What an absolute delight Amy has been to work with. She is incredibly honest and trustworthy. She takes immense pride in her work and is dedicated to producing quality outcomes. A great team player who acts with integrity at all times.

Thomasine | Manager

Amy has a science based approach, yet also has a personable manner that achieves great outcomes for those she coaches or participants in facilitation sessions.

As a coach, Amy has a skill at being able to truly empathise and understand differing situations quickly. She uses her understanding of situations and context to recommend advice and a framework of thinking that empowers people to act on situations rationally, without losing a sense of self.

As a facilitator, Amy has an exceptional toolkit of techniques that she applies effectively across multiple types of topics and challenges. She has a gift for distilling complex issues into a set of structured and chronological exercises that summarises key issues and present recommendations

Sally | Manager

Amy is truly a leader in her approach to personal strategy, authenticity, and influence. Her approach is one of engaging calmness and her ability to identify and work through the "real" issues is remarkable.  I have been fortunate enough to work with Amy one-on-one for an extended period and the empowerment, skills, and lessons that I've taken away from Amy's mentorship have had a profoundly positive impact across both my professional and personal life.