Speaker – Amber Johnson – The Active Cell

SPEAKER

Amber Johnson

Amber is a fractional industrial engineer and the founder of Peachy Profitability, where she helps teams work smarter through process improvement, data storytelling, and automation. She began her career as a beer psychic—forecasting demand at Anheuser-Busch—and has since built logistics networks, optimized warehouse flows, and guided businesses through transformational change. Amber’s superpower is making complexity approachable.

She’s the creator of Office Hours with Amber, a weekly livestream series that empowers learners to embrace Excel and continuous improvement with curiosity and confidence. Known for her warm, energizing presence, Amber is someone who always sees the sparkle each person brings—and helps them see it too. She believes great systems are human-centered, and the best growth starts with “I don’t know yet, but I know I will”.

DEC 1 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Debugging Debt: You Are the Most Important Input Variable

The reality about $40K in credit card debt: the balance doesn’t move until your behavior does. The daily choices, the habits I never questioned, the beliefs about money I didn’t even know I had. By finding the root cause of my most expensive beliefs, I started to treat my own life like a formula — where the result only changes when the inputs do.

In this session, I’ll break down my personal debt case study into repeatable steps you can use to take control of your own finances and reach your goals.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, you will know:

Understand why tracking input behavior matters as much as tracking output performance
Practice root-cause analysis techniques as they apply to spending beliefs
Use a simple framework for categorizing spend based on necessity, frequency, and emotional profitability
Walk away with an Excel template to start tracking inputs tied to YOUR goals.