Tania de Jong AM

Tania de Jong AM is one of Australia’s most successful female entrepreneurs and innovators having developed six businesses and four 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. he 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.

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 programmes to unlock capabilities in creativity and innovation.

Tania’s Topics:

• Being Human in an Age of Machines: The Mental Health Challenge
• Human Intelligence 2.0: How to Manage Change in Troubling Times & Build a Collective Future
• Voices of Innovation: The Power of Positive Human Collisions
• Thinking Outside the Box: Leading Innovation & Change
• Creativity & Innovation: How to Harness Them in Your People & Organisation
• From Profit to Purpose in an Era of Disruption
• We Are One: Reconnecting to Ourselves & Our Communities in an Era of Isolation & Division
• Creativity: The Strategic Tool of the 21st Century