Tania de Jong AM is one of Australia’s most successful female entrepreneurs and innovators, having founded six businesses and four charities. Tania works across the public, private, creative, and community sectors.

When she was 14 years old, her best friend told her not to bother having singing lessons, so it’s not surprising that her mission is to change the world, one voice at a time. She gave a TED talk in 2013, titled ‘How singing together changes the brain’, which sparked international interest and has since been viewed by hundreds of thousands of times across various platforms.

Tania de Jong is a global authority on collaboration, creativity, innovation, and leadership. With a grandmother who invented the foldable umbrella, innovation is in her blood. And, as the daughter of Holocaust survivors, she has learnt about resilience and re-invention, and developed a passion for diversity and social inclusion.

Tania de Jong founded Creativity Australia and the life-changing With One Voice social inclusion and community wellbeing programs, Creative Universe, MTA Entertainment and Events, Umbrella Foundation, and the educational charity The Song Room. The Song Room has reached over a million disadvantaged students, changing lives and futures with creative music programs.

She is also the co-founder of Mind Medicine Australia, which made history in 2023 through the world-first rescheduling of psilocybin and MDMA in Australia to treat a range of mental illnesses. She organised the ground-breaking Creative Innovation Asia Pacific Global Forum for a decade, bringing together international leaders to focus on managing and preparing for a rapidly changing world.

Tania de Jong is also a global soprano; with ‘the voice of an angel’, she performs internationally as a soloist and with her group Pot-Pourri. To date, she has released thirteen albums, including her acclaimed solo release, Flying Free.

Tania de Jong  – Awards and Accolades

Tania’s achievements have seen her awarded with a range of accolades, including:

– Order of Australia (2008) for her work as a performer, entrepreneur, and her impact on education, innovation, and the community

– Named in the 2016 Impact 25 Awards which honour the social sector’s most influential people

– Ernst and Young Australian Social Entrepreneur of the Year

– The Outstanding Individual Contribution to Australian Culture Award

– Churchill Fellowship

– The Melbourne Award

– Inducted into the AGSE Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame at Swinburne University

– Named Brainlink Woman of Achievement

Tania de Jong  – Corporate Work

She is an agent for change; an inspirational and moving storyteller and performer. Her keynotes, combined with the power of song, are transformational. She is known for her amazing ability to unleash creative energy and capabilities, expand mindsets, raise collective consciousness, and build can-do teams and strategies to develop a culture of resilience, inclusion and innovation.

Tania de Jong – Speaking Topics

– Leadership

– Purpose

– Creativity

– Curiosity

– Innovation

– Mental Health and Wellbeing

– Generosity

– Resilience and Inclusion

– Entrepreneurship

– Philanthropy

Tania speaks and performs around the world, inspiring audiences of 10 to 10,000, ranging from corporate executives, boards, universities, hospitals, businesses, schools, not-for-profits, education, and health forums, and at major international conferences. She is also a consultant for national and international organisations at C-Suite level, providing keynotes, MC services, performances, and immersive experiences.

Tania’s warmth and ability to engage and connect with audiences is topped off with her outstanding storytelling skills and a special song or two. Her presentations, workshops, and performances can be themed to suit your specific goals. She offers major international keynotes and after-dinner, breakfast, and lunch spots for conferences and awards programs, launches, staff training, and learning and development workshops, client events, and leadership retreats.

Tania de Jong – Keynote Talks

Being Human In an Age of Machines – The Mental Health Challenge: Things are getting better and better and worse and worse, faster and faster, simultaneously. Learn about:

– The current mental health statistics and solutions available

– How to raise our consciousness and build a collective future

– How neuroscience can help us change our brains and reconnect to self and others

– Ways to empower people to find their purpose so that they can unleash their true creative potential

– How to include diverse voices and help people to feel a sense of belonging

– Why psychedelic-assisted therapies could be a potential game changer

Human Intelligence 2.0 – How to Manage Change in Troubling Times and Build a Collective Future: How can organisations develop creative, resilient, inclusive, and innovative cultures, and develop the agility and human intelligence skills required to manage and prepare for a rapidly changing world and the fourth industrial revolution.

– Fast-track your thinking about change and the future

– Human Intelligence 2.0 tools to develop agile growth, mindset, skills, innovation, performance, resilience, and leadership

– How to develop more right-brained, creative and collaborative thinking to solve wicked  collective problems

– Insights into harnessing diversity and inclusion not build communities that care

– Case studies to inspire action

Voices of Innovation – The Power of Positive Human Collisions

– How to build a collaborative, purpose-driven, and innovative culture

– Insights into harnessing diversity and creating opportunity

– Enhanced creative thinking and how to develop agile growth mindsets

– Tools to develop your resilience, performance, and leadership

– Integrating feminine power with masculine wisdom

Thinking Outside the Box: Leading Innovation and Change

– Develop creative, intuitive, right-brained, and agile mindsets and think outside the box

– Deal with failure and develop resilience

– Build a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship that leads to business growth and success

– Prepare for and manage in times of massive uncertainty, disruption, and change

– Understand why diversity will increase your organisation’s productivity and lead to sustainable growth

– Make a difference to the communities where you operate

Creativity and Innovation – How to Harness Them in Your People and Organisation

– We are all creative – building creative confidence and self-belief

– Dealing with failure and developing resilience

– Using neuroscience and your right brain to super-charge your work and life

– Tools to unlock your individual and organisational creative potential

– How to develop a culture where creativity and innovation can flourish

– Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship within your organisation

From Profits to Purpose in an Era of Disruption

– How to build a collaborative, inclusive, and innovative culture

– Insights into harnessing diversity and building communities that care

– Enhanced out-of-the-box creative thinking and agile growth mindsets

– Tools to develop your resilience, performance, and leadership

– Integrating feminine power with masculine wisdom

– Why doing good really matters

– Case studies to inspire action

We Are ONE – Reconnecting to Ourselves and Our Communities in an Era of Isolation and Division: Loneliness, depression, and social isolation are the global epidemics of our times. We are more connected through technology than ever before, yet many of us feel increasingly separate, lost, anxious, and empty. We live behind walls when we desperately need to build bridges of connection and become more inclusive. Tania will provide insights and solutions to help us reconnect to:

– Ourselves and the right side of our brain

– Other people to form caring tribes and communities

– Meaningful work and active citizenship

– Joy, creativity, and intuition

Creativity: The Strategic Tool of the 21st Century

– Why creativity has become our most endangered species, and why it is more important now than ever before

– Using neuroscience and your right brain to super-charge your work and life

– Tools to unlock your individual and organisational creative potential

– How creativity leads to improved wellbeing, innovation, social inclusion, leadership, productivity, and transformation

– Unleashing the unique creative voices of your team and your organisation

Tania de Jong Clients

AGL, ANZ, AON, BCG, BHP, CBA, CPA, David Jones, Department of Defence (DST Group), The Florey Institute, INSEAD Business School, McKinsey & Company, NAB, Perpetual, Pwc, Rotary, Spotlight, Telstra, Transurban, Veolia, Woodside

Various governments, universities, and schools, leading innovation, education, technology, and entrepreneurship conferences and special events, including the International Innovation Symposium in Vienna.

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