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Tania de Jong

Dutch Australian Speaker, Thinking outside the box and Creating New Futures
  • Specialising in Creativity, Innovation, Leadership, Change and Disruption, Culture, Communities, Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies, The Neuroscience of Singing, Inclusion, Education, Women in Business
  • Excellent keynote and after dinner speaker (and Tania sings like an angel!), as well as workshop and team building presenter, performer and MC.
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Tania de Jong's 2025 Biography

Meet Tania de Jong AM

Tania de Jong AM is one of Australia’s most successful female entrepreneurs and innovators having developed 6 businesses and 4 charities. Tania works across the public, private, creative and community sectors. She is a highly regarded public speaker, performer, MC and workshop leader creating immersive and magical experiences for clients and audiences globally. She enjoys customising her contributions to suit specific client briefs to create outstanding outcomes.

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

When she was just 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. Tania’s TED Talk ‘How singing together changes the brain’ has sparked international interest.

Tania is a global authority on creativity, innovation, leadership and collaboration. 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 has an unusual background because her work and knowledge spans the business, public, creative and community sectors. She is therefore able to draw together cross-sector themes relevant to business, government and not-for-profit sectors.

Tania presents on leadership, purpose, creativity, curiosity, innovation, resilience, mental health and wellbeing, generosity, diversity & inclusion, entrepreneurship and philanthropy. She helps provide valuable tools and insights into surviving and thriving in a rapidly changing world.

Tania speaks and performs around the world, inspiring diverse audiences of 10 to 10,000 people ranging from corporate executive teams, boards, Top 100 and entire organisations to universities, hospitals, schools, businesses, not-for-profits, health, education and entrepreneurship forums, and at major national and international conferences and public events.

She consults to a number of national and multinational organisations at C-Suite level providing keynote speeches, MC services, magical performances and immersive experiences, leadership, team building and innovation workshops, connections and strategic advice.

Thinkers 50 invited her to be a keynote speaker and performer at the European Business Forum in Denmark and she was a keynote speaker at the International Forum on Consciousness in the USA.

Major clients have included the leadership teams of Woodside, Department of Defence (DST Group), McKinsey & Company, PwC, BCG, AGL, Veolia, Spotlight, David Jones, Perpetual, Telstra, Transurban, ANZ, CBA, NAB, BHP, INSEAD Business School, AON, The Florey Institute, CPA, Rotary, various Governments, Universities and schools. She has been a keynote speaker at many leading innovation, education, entrepreneurship and technology conferences and special events including the International Innovation Symposium in Vienna. Tania writes articles and has been featured and interviewed across major media including Huffington Post, ABC, AFR BOSS Magazine, Forbes, Bloomberg, The Australian, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, 2UE and many others. She has spoken and performed in over 40 countries.

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

She co-founded Mind Medicine Australia which made global history in 2023 through the world-first rescheduling of psilocybin and MDMA in Australia to treat a range of intractable mental illnesses, with the potential to impact millions of lives in the coming years.

Tania organised the ground-breaking Creative Innovation Asia Pacific Global forum on 8 occasions bringing together international and national leaders to focus on managing and preparing for a rapidly changing world. Creative Innovation Global received international and national awards, including Corporate Event of the Year in the global Eventex Awards.

With the voice of an angel, Tania performs internationally as a soloist and with her group Pot-Pourri. She has released thirteen albums including her acclaimed solo release Flying Free.

She received the Order of Australia in 2008 for her work as a performer, entrepreneur and for her impact on education, innovation and the community. Tania’s other awards include Ernst and Young Australian Social Entrepreneur of the Year, the ‘Outstanding Individual Contribution to Australian Culture’, Churchill Fellowship and The Melbourne Award. She was inducted into the AGSE Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame at Swinburne University and named Brainlink Woman of Achievement. Tania was named in the 2016 Impact 25 Awards which honour the social sector’s most influential people for their significant and positive impact in Australia and around the world.

SO MANY WAYS TO WORK WITH TANIA

Tania achieves outstanding results and standing ovations. Her warmth, ability to engage with audiences and connect and deliver profound messages 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 and will touch and move your audience in so many ways.

She is the ideal speaker for after dinner, breakfast or lunch spots and for Conferences and Awards programs (Opening, Closing, Gala Dinner, Keynote, Workshop), Launches, Staff Training and Learning and Development workshops, leadership retreats, client events etc. She has presented keynote presentations and workshops for audiences of 10 to 10,000 for major national and international conferences.

Through Tania’s work and her collaboration with major organisations and top teams over many years, she has developed a number of strategies and programs to unlock capabilities in creativity and innovation.

Tania can assist your clients, teams, organisations, conferences and special events through:

  1. Delivering an inspirational, interactive, customised keynote speech (can include immersive videos and song/s)
  2. Being an informed, entertaining and interactive MC or panel member
  3. Creating a special, customised and magical performance to enchant and inspire as a solo performer or with her acclaimed group Pot-Pourri
  4. Presenting a creative workshop to transport your people into a right-brained ‘can-do’ headspace. See One Team, One Voice workshops
  5. Developing and presenting customised innovation and creative “out of the box” workshops to suit your brief

KEY POINTS

  • Tania de Jong AM is one of Australia’s most successful female entrepreneurs and innovators building 6 businesses and 4 charities over 3 decades.
  • She is one of Australia’s leading speakers and has the voice of an angel.
  • Tania was recently named in the 100 Women of Influence and the 100 Most Influential Entrepreneurs in Australia and named as one of the 100 most influential people in psychedelics globally in 2021.
  • Tania is a global authority on creativity, innovation, leadership and collaboration. With a grandmother who invented the foldable umbrella, innovation is in her blood.
  • Individuals, communities, corporations and governments face increasing challenges and accelerating change. Tania expands mindsets and inspires audiences to think more laterally and creatively about the future. Thinkers50 have invited her to be a keynote speaker and performer at the World Business Forum in Denmark.
  • Tania is the Founder of Creative Universe, Creative Innovation Global, Mind Medicine Australia, Umbrella Foundation, Dimension5, MTA Entertainment & Events, Pot-Pourri, The Song Room and Creativity Australia and the With One Voice program.
  • She received the Order of Australia in 2008 for her work as a performer and entrepreneur. Tania’s other awards include Ernst and Young Australian Social Entrepreneur of the Year, the ‘Outstanding Individual Contribution to Australian Culture’, Churchill Fellowship and The Melbourne Award. She was inducted into the AGSE Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame at Swinburne University and named Brainlink Woman of Achievement. Tania was named in the 2016 Impact 25 Awards which honour the social sector’s most influential people for their significant and positive impact in Australia and around the world.
  • Tania is an agent for change. She is an inspirational and moving storyteller and performer. Her keynotes, combined with the power of song, transform the way audiences feel and subsequently how they act.
  • She is known for her ability to unleash creative energy and capabilities, expand mindsets, build ‘can-do’ teams and strategies to develop a culture of innovation, diversity and inclusion.
  • Tania has an unusual background because her work and knowledge spans the business, public, creative and community sectors. She is therefore able to draw together cross-sector themes relevant to business and government sectors.
  • She is a dynamic and insightful speaker, MC, panel member, workshop leader and performer and enjoys customising her contributions to suit specific client briefs to create outstanding outcomes.
  • She has spoken and performed in over 40 countries. Her TED Talk has sparked global interest.
  • Tania has released 7 albums with her acclaimed singing group Pot-Pourri and has released 6 solo albums including the acclaimed Flying Free.
  • Tania’s mission is to change the world, one voice at a time!

Tania’s particular skills include:

  • Unleashing greater creativity, passion and energy quickly and sustainably
  • Executive and other teams – ‘Building a can-do team’
  • Helping to expand mindsets, develop capabilities and build a culture of creativity and innovation
  • Removing self-limiting beliefs and inspiring new possibilities for achievement/success
  • Being an agent for change and raising collective intelligence and consciousness
  • Managing and preparing people for rapid change and disruption
  • Developing resilience, agility and other key leadership tools and mindsets
  • Unleashing potential and breaking down barriers between diverse people
  • Developing a more inclusive and diverse community and culture
  • Corporate social responsibility, developing an inclusive and diverse community and culture
  • Inspirational keynote speeches and world class customised, immersive and interactive performances
  • Facilitation and workshops
  • Performances and entertainment design
  • Event and conference design and management
  • Creating a WOW factor!

Tania de Jong's 2025 Talks & Topics

“Things are getting better and better and worse and worse, faster and faster, simultaneously.”

  • 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

How can organisations develop creative, inclusive, resilient and innovative cultures and develop the agility and Human Intelligence 2.0 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, mindsets and skills, innovation, resilience, performance and leadership
  • How to develop more right-brained, creative and collaborative thinking to solve wicked collective problems
  • Insights into harnessing diversity and inclusion to build communities that care
  • Case studies to inspire action
  • 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
  • Develop creative, intuitive, right-brained and agile mindsets and think ‘outside the box’
  • Deal with failure and developing 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
  • To understand why diversity will increase your organisation’s productivity and lead to sustainable growth
  • Make a difference to the communities where you operate
  • 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
  • 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

Loneliness, depression and social isolation is the global epidemic of our times. We are more connected through technology than ever before. Yet many of us feel increasingly separate, anxious, lost and empty. We talk more to boxes and screens than to one another. We live behind walls when we desperately need to build bridges of connection and become more inclusive.

In this powerful keynote experience, Tania will provide insights, case studies, stories and solutions to help us reconnect to:

  • Our selves and the right side of our brain
  • Other people to form caring tribes and communities
  • Meaningful work and active citizenship
  • Joy, creativity and Intuition

Tania will shift our mindsets and show us a different way to view the world. This powerful talk is important, relevant, inspirational and utterly unforgettable. It will change your life!

  • 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, social inclusion, innovation, leadership, productivity and transformation
  • Unleashing the unique creative voices of your team and your organisation

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