Dr Amantha Imber

Founder and Head Inventiologist

Dr Amantha Imber is a creativity and innovation psychologist, and founder of the award-winning innovation consultancy Inventium. She gives her audiences practical, science-based tools that they can use to immediately get their brain unstuck, get creative juices flowing and uncover great ideas that will lead to business growth - all delivered in a way that engages, educates, and is often, downright quirky.

Unlike many self-proclaimed “experts” in the creativity and innovation arena, Amantha has both the science (a PhD in organisational psychology) and the clients (including Coca-Cola, LEGO, Medibank Private, Red Bull, Deloitte, Vodafone, National Australia Bank, McDonalds and Westpac) to back her up. She has spoken in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the United States, Africa and Europe helping turn people into innovation dynamos.

Amantha is a regular media commentator on creativity and innovation, and has appeared on Today, Mornings with Kerri-Anne, Insight, and ABC Radio. She writes a regular column on science-based innovation for Fast Thinking, is author of “The Creativity Formula: 50 scientifically proven creativity boosters for work and for life”, and has helped literally thousands of people solve problems more creatively and as a result, bring better innovations to market.

Amantha had an international record deal for her debut album Like Samantha without the S, prays to the God of Kevin Spacey and claims to have once been freakishly good at table tennis.

Dr Adrian Medhurst

Inventiologist

Bringing the brain and body science of innovation and creativity to the masses is one of his ongoing pursuits at Inventium. As well as having completed his Doctorate in Organisational Psychology, Adrian has a tonne of experience working with a diverse range of organisations such as Australia Post, National Australia Bank, Coles, CSL, BP, Cerebos, Kimberly-Clark, Fosters, Challenger and several government departments.

The psychology and practice underlying creativity and innovation, employee engagement, mindfulness and psychological flexibility, strength-based employee development approaches and building a high-performance organisational culture are his passions. These have seen him deliver keynote presentations and facilitate training during various conferences and workshops around Australia and New Zealand.

Adrian has been exposed to a variety of positions across areas including Organisational Development Consulting, Employee Training and Development, Lecturing at Monash University School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Business, Organisational Research and Diagnosis, Recruitment and Selection, and Retail Management.

As well as being a keen researcher (…nerd…), Adrian charismatically delivers workshops and keynotes, facilitates in a friendly and involving fashion, and assists in the development of scientific tools and data crunching.

Outside of Inventium you’ll see Adrian rock climbing for kicks or getting grounded through yoga. Earlier in his life he spent his days sprinting over sticks for various State and Australian teams (400 metre hurdle champ!) where he had his first insights into the power of motivation and psychology behind high performance. Though Adrian’s mum thinks he’s cool, others would probably call him an energetic character who has the potential to bust into a jig for no particular reason at all.

Peter Cook

Director & Inventiologist

As well as being an in-demand Inventiologist at Inventium, Peter Cook is the CEO of Love Your Business, creator of The Money Workshop, a master business coach, writer, speaker and facilitator.

Peter is a “smart cookie” (so to speak). He has a science degree in advanced physics, a law degree with honours and a masters of business. More importantly he also got 100% for year 12 maths! And he still doesn’t know what he wants to be when he grows up.

Peter is the president of Buoyancy, a drug and alcohol agency in Richmond, Melbourne. He is also an organiser of the Love Your Business Epicentre Project to raise $500k over five years to end hunger for a group of villages in Senegal, West Africa.

Peter was originally looking to have one of his team do some work with Inventium, but when he experienced the Idea Lab he loved it so much he put his hand up to join the team. He brings a wealth of business knowledge, facilitation experience, presentation skills and most of all passion to his role at Inventium.

Peter has a 2nd dan black belt in Aikido, is a cross-fit addict and has foolishly agreed to run a half marathon next year.

Dr Sean Fabri

Inventiologist

Sean Fabri is a medical doctor, a teacher, and an actor, and his work often requires him to be all three at the same time. In his medical career, his focus is primarily on improving systems, supervising, supporting, and solving problems for junior doctors who are new to working in Australian medicine. Apart from his work at Inventium, he is a corporate trainer in the managerial areas of recruitment, training, and supervision.

Sean has over two decades of experience in the theatre, with a focus on improvisation, an artform which is equal parts acting, storytelling, and instant fearless creativity. He has taught and performed both in Australia and abroad, and is acclaimed as an expert in the field.

Sean also teaches Ethical Practice for the Melbourne University medical school.

Sean was the first captain of his high school who was also hopeless at football. Now, however, he throws himself into sport, and has a particular delight for running, indoor rock-climbing, and doing exercises in the gym that no-one else has ever heard of.

Diem Duong

Number Cruncher

A Melbourne University Psychology alumni, Diem Duong comes to Inventium with a background in psychometric testing and recruitment. Diem is also completing a Masters in Organisational Psychology at Monash University where she is researching and developing various measures to assess implicit attitudes in the workplace.

Diem is Inventium’s chief statistician and loves nothing better than performing complex analyses or writing syntax.

Besides being a hovercraft enthusiast, Diem loves cooking, reading and being outdoors.

Tom Vinciguerra

Factotum

Hailing from sunny Perth, Tom conducts research and composes copy to meet the assorted needs of the Inventium team. With academic research experience in psychology, education, and palliative care, in addition to consultant roles in HR and market research, Tom is a jack of a few trades and a master of none.

Tom is currently completing his Doctorate in Organisational Psychology where he’s researching ways to popularise sustainable consumption.

Despite his Bob Dylan obsession bordering on the abnormal, Tom still finds time read, write and run and is seriously considering starting up an urban tree-climbing club.

Jade Bray

Chaos Controller

After stepping into the unknown world of motherhood and raising two beautiful children for the last two years, Jade decided it was time to rejoin the work force and begin to be inspired again by a little bit more adult conversation and uninterrupted thinking time.

In her past life as a Learning and Development Manager at Australia Post, Jade worked closely with new staff members, training and coaching them in their new roles and developing resources to meet the needs of the organisation.

When she is not controlling chaos at Inventium, Jade loves being outdoors with her family and is a keen mountain bike rider and camper. When the kids are in bed, there is nothing more that she enjoys doing than spending time reading a juicy book, painting anything and everything or hanging out with the hubby eating the richest block of dark chocolate that can be found and a drinking very well aged red wine….the simple things in life ;-).

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