Dr Amantha Imber

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.

Walk away with:

- 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

You're not here to prompt harder. You're here to work smarter.

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

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 outthink and outlast competitors
- Tools that can easily be communicated to your teams and others within the organisation to help drive an innovation culture

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.

Walk away with:

- 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

Same person. Completely different energy.

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.

Walk away with:

- 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

Walk out with a sharper brain, fewer open tabs, and a workflow that finally gives back what AI promised.

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