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Key Points for Dr Amantha Imber

  • Dr Amantha Imber is an organisational psychologist and founder of the behavioural science consultancy Inventium.
  • She helps global organisations such as Google, Apple, and Microsoft innovate, perform, and lead with purpose.
  • Amantha is the first Australian to win the Thinkers50 Innovation Award and a 2025 Australian AI Awards finalist.
  • Through her best selling books and top ranking podcast How I Work, she shares evidence based tools for thriving in modern work and life.

Topics for Dr Amantha Imber

  • AI-Powered Productivity: Mastering AI to 10x your impact
    We've been sold the dream: AI will save us time, boost productivity, maybe even think for us. The reality? Most of us are still flailing around, typing vague prompts and crossing our fingers for genius.
    This keynote is your permission slip to stop treating AI like a magic oracle and start working with it like the brilliant, bizarre, occasionally infuriating collaborator it actually is. Because if you're still playing prompt roulette, you're missing the point entirely.
    Dr Amantha Imber (organisational psychologist, founder of Inventium.ai, and 2025 AI Consultant of the Year) isn't here to talk *at* you about technology. She's here to talk about *you*: how your brain works, where you're getting stuck, and how to genuinely partner with AI to produce work that's deeper, sharper, and way less painful.
    Key takeaways:
    • A framework for building a productive (not performative) relationship with AI
    • Strategies that cut rework and get you better outputs from the start
    • Techniques to sharpen clarity, unlock creativity, and collaborate more effectively using GenAI
    • Tools to quiet the noise, reduce decision fatigue, and stop second-guessing yourself
    • A delegation method that actually works (yes, for AI too)
    • Habits that help you spot blind spots, challenge your biases, and build better outcomes
    •  The confidence to know when to lean on AI — and when to back yourself instead

  • The Energy Game: A science-backed system to recharge without pressing pause on life
    Exhaustion has become the default setting. "Crazy busy" gets worn like a badge of honour. And somewhere along the way, running on empty became a personality trait.
    The fixes we've been sold? A weekend retreat. A green smoothie. Yet another productivity hack from someone who clearly hasn't met your calendar. None of it touches the actual culprit: chronic depletion.
    Dr Amantha Imber (organisational psychologist, bestselling author, and founder of Inventium) is here to change that. Drawing on a study with 1300 exhausted humans who lifted their energy by 40 per cent in just five days, Amantha hands you a science-backed system for rebuilding energy in the middle of real life — not on top of it. No sabbaticals required. No retreats to Bali. Just evidence-based strategies that take five minutes or less, and actually work. 
    In this highly interactive keynote, attendees will identify their dominant Energy Type, learn how to manage the three energy accounts they've been bankrupting, and leave with a personalised plan to stop accepting tired as a baseline.
    Key takeaways:
    • A clear understanding of your Energy Type and the specific pattern fuelling your exhaustion
    • Knowledge of the three energy accounts most of us mismanage (Physical, Mental and Emotional)
    • Evidence-based strategies that boost energy in as little as five minutes
    • Tools to identify and neutralise the Energy Vampires draining your reserves
    • Permission to stop treating exhaustion as the price of success
  • The Hidden Cost of AI: Beating "brainfry" and reclaiming your focus
    We've been sold the dream: AI will automate the boring stuff and finally give us our time back.
    The reality? We've traded repetitive drudgery for a relentless cycle of prompting, verifying and switching between too many tools. The hours we thought we'd reclaim have been eaten by something new — the cognitive cost of supervising machines. And our mental energy account is paying the bill.
    Welcome to AI brainfry: the chronic depletion that comes from running your brain like an always-on quality control department.
    Dr Amantha Imber (organisational psychologist, founder of Inventium.ai, 2025 AI Consultant of the Year, and author of *The Energy Game*) has spent the last two years studying mental exhaustion with 1300 depleted humans. The good news? Her science-backed system lifted their energy by 40 per cent in just five days. The better news? The same principles can rescue your brain from the new Energy Vampires hiding inside your AI workflow.
    In this highly interactive keynote, Amantha unpacks why supervising machines burns more mental energy than doing the work yourself, why the hidden "verification tax" is silently your mental energy account, and how to redesign your AI workflow so it pays back the cognitive bandwidth it promised.
    Key takeaways:
    • The science behind "AI brainfry" and why supervising machines can deplete mental energy faster than doing the work yourself
    • A diagnostic for the energy account AI is hitting hardest, and evidence-based strategies to start refilling it
    • Tools to spot the AI-shaped Energy Vampires hiding in your workflow and neutralise them before they neutralise you
    • Protective boundaries and focus habits that turn AI from a mental drain into a genuine productivity multiplier
    • A clear sense of when AI is helping you think and when it's doing the thinking for you

 

  • Find Your Focus: Science-backed strategies for turbo-charging productivity and wellbeing
    Email. Social media. Endless pings and dings. Distraction and digital temptation make it hard to do focused, impactful work.
    In this highly interactive keynote, Dr. Amantha Imber reveals science-backed strategies to help teams transform habits, turbo-charge output, and optimise work hours. Attendees will learn how to structure days for peak performance, win back hours lost to distraction, and ingrain new practices to conquer busyness. They'll walk away with an actionable blueprint to sharpen focus and dial up impact.
    Key takeaways:
    • Science-backed strategies to conquer busyness and turbo-charge productivity
    • Evidence-based techniques to structure days for deep thinking and flow
    • The simple strategy that will let you win back at least two hours in every workday

  • Tiny Tweaks, Big Shifts: The small steps that lead to massive change
    How do you achieve dramatic improvement? Driving real change requires adopting new behaviours – yet our brains resist. It is downright hard to change entrenched habits.
    In this interactive keynote, Dr. Amantha Imber will reveal psychological insights that drive transformation. Attendees will learn tactics to identify mental roadblocks and “glitches” thwarting progress. They’ll discover tiny tweaks that pay huge dividends in cementing new habits and high performance behaviours. This talk provides a practical blueprint for shepherding change at any level.
    Key Takeaways:
    • The hidden mental obstacles that sabotage your goals.
    • The psychological barriers that are killing your progress - and how to fix them.
    • Counterintuitive insights to make positive habits stick for good.
    • Small tweaks that will lead to huge improvements.

  • Innovation Survivor: How to out think, outsmart, and outlast your competitors
    It is our ability to generate breakthrough ideas to business challenges and opportunities that is what literally enables us to outthink, outsmart and outlast our competitors.
    Dr Amantha Imber will take you through the latest scientific findings in relation to what really drives highly inventive and disruptive thinking – and how participants can apply these findings to their role.
    You will walk away with a set of practical tools that you can use immediately to innovate what you do and disrupt the competition.
    Key takeaways:
    • A set of practical tools to drive breakthrough thinking.
    • The skills to literally out think and outlast competitors.
    • Tools that can easily be communicated to your teams and others within the organisation to help drive an innovation culture.

Testimonials for Dr Amantha Imber

Amantha blew me away.
Executive General Manager Sales & Service
Medibank Private

Amantha is a person who makes a lasting impression and changes people’s lives.
VP Innovation
AMP

Disarming, engaging and thought provoking. Thoroughly recommend.
Head of Consumer
Disney

Amantha was the highlight of our conference and people are still talking about it.
Head of HR
Coca-Cola Amatil

Compelling, intrusive, provocative and insightful.
VP Strategy
Wunderman EMEA

I can't believe how much of an impact 40 minutes can make! Amantha Imber provided tools to inspire, create, motivate and change the way we go about our day to day business, and continue to evolve our point of difference from our competitors. Great job!
DMG Radio

It was during the final session of an incredibly boring seminar that Amantha Imber made her first impression on me. She blew me away. She was quirky, engaging, energetic, energising and incredibly insightful. Since then, I've involved Amantha in running my part of the business because she causes people to be more productive in their roles by helping them to be more creative. Amantha is one of those great educators who does not teach things, she helps people to discover things. I have no hesitation in recommending Amantha to any business leader.
Medibank Private

Amantha Imber is a peerless facilitator of any creativity, innovation, thinking-related workshop, conference and gathering. Her seemingly light delivery and interaction with the audiences is the tip of an iceberg of the depth of her science knowledge and understanding of human mind at work. I am a shameless fan of Amantha's work.
Innofuture Conference

Amantha Imber provides her audience with strategies that are directly translatable into practice – no small feat given the phobias and anxieties that a large number of people experience when reflecting upon their own personal levels of creativity. I recently invited Amantha Imber to present both a keynote address and a workshop at a conference for Tasmanian teachers. Amantha’s keynote was exceptional and profoundly moving for me as a person and as an educator. The conference has since proven to be something of a hit. The ‘secret weapon’, in my opinion, was Amantha Imber!
Vocational and Applied Learning

Amantha Imber is not only a wonderful person to deal with, she is creative, organised and so clearly in her element when presenting on stage. Amantha spoke at our Businesswomen's Breakfast Series event in Sydney and the entire audience were both engaged and enthralled during her talk. We all came away with useful and valuable information that was immediately applicable to our careers. I am looking forward to the Melbourne presentation and recommend Amantha to others seeking a dynamic speaker or innovation consultant without hesitation.
Network Central

Amantha Imber presentation was ... a surprise!... original, funny, dynamic, curious, interesting and useful. I had the pleasure to invite, and bet, on Amantha for our annual conference and she exceeded all expectations. I am sure we will have future opportunities to explore.
CCPortugal

Like most people, I’m only half listening to the presentations towards the end of conferences. That’s because my attention is focussed on the long list of emails on the BlackBerry I’m hiding under the table. Amantha Imber’s presentation was different. It was compelling, intrusive, provocative and insightful. I powered off my BlackBerry and listened.
Wunderman Emea

Your topic “Overcoming Creative Blocks” proved highly relevant to all our attendees as evident by a great turnout. Considering that NAFAis comprised of a diverse bunch of creatives, I was most impressed you held the group spell-bound for the hour. In fact, I noticed that no-one dared to leave in case they missed one of your gems! You certainly entertained and inspired us with your willingness to share insights and strategies.
NAFA.