Award-winning social entrepreneur, global speaker and acclaimed soprano inspiring creativity, leadership and wellbeing
Tania de Jong AM is an Australian soprano, social entrepreneur and keynote speaker who has founded six businesses and four charities — among them Creative Universe, Creative Innovation Global, Mind Medicine Australia, Creativity Australia and The Song Room. Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2008 for service to the arts, she has been named Ernst & Young Australian Social Entrepreneur of the Year, awarded a Churchill Fellowship and listed among the 100 Women of Influence. She has spoken and performed in more than 40 countries, including a keynote at the Thinkers50 European Business Forum in Denmark.
Her range is unusual. She holds an honours degree in law from the University of Melbourne and trained in opera and music theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts. At 14, her best friend told her not to bother with singing lessons — she has since built a career on changing the world one voice at a time, and her TED Talk on how singing together changes the brain has passed 150,000 views. As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, and granddaughter of the woman who invented the foldable umbrella, she speaks about resilience, reinvention and innovation from lived experience rather than theory.
Tania customises every keynote and often weaves song through it, regularly finishing with the whole room singing in harmony — from boardrooms of ten to conference halls of thousands. She speaks on leadership, creativity and innovation, mental health and wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, and the neuroscience of singing, and also works as an MC, workshop facilitator and performer, on her own or with Pot-Pourri, the opera and Broadway ensemble she founded more than three decades ago. Organisations including PwC, BCG, McKinsey, Telstra, ANZ and CBA have engaged her to build connection and creative confidence in their teams. Audiences leave with practical tools for courage and collaboration — and a shared moment they talk about long after the event.
Tania de Jong AM is a keynote speaker, MC and entertainer based in Victoria who speaks on diversity & inclusion, innovation and leadership. Book through Executive Speakers Australia.
We are living through one of the most extraordinary periods of transformation in human history. Technology is accelerating. Artificial intelligence is reshaping work. And yet, at the very moment we are more connected than ever, we are also facing a crisis of disconnection, disengagement, division, depression and untapped human potential.
What if the greatest competitive advantage in your organisation is not AI, strategy, or data, but the unique human beings who make up your community and bring it to life?
We need to strengthen the human gifts technology cannot replace – creativity, empathy, intuition, courage, resilience and presence – while learning to use technology without surrendering what makes you human.
In this powerful and deeply experiential keynote, Tania de Jong invites leaders to rethink what it means to lead, innovate, and thrive in a rapidly changing world. Drawing on decades of experience across business, social enterprise, and the arts, she reveals how organisations can unlock collective intelligence, build truly inclusive cultures, and harness the full human potential of their teams.
Key learnings include:
• How to create psychologically safe cultures where every voice is heard, honoured and valued
• Why diversity of thinking and ‘positive human collisions’ are the key to innovation, adaptability, and future readiness
• The hidden cost of silence in organisations and how to transform it into creativity, compassion and contribution
• Practical tools to unleash courage, collaboration, and purpose at every level of leadership
• How music and the arts can become powerful catalysts for connection, critical thinking, wellbeing, community and high performance
This is not a traditional keynote. It is an immersive experience that combines storytelling, science, and the power of the human voice to shift mindsets and inspire action. Because in a world defined by disruption, the organisations that thrive will not just be the most efficient or the most advanced. They will be the most human. Tania de Jong does not just speak about transformation. She enables it.
You were wonderful. You engaged with over 700 of our consultants in a powerful way and reinforced our own potential. The standing ovation was a testament to the way you moved us into a different headspace. Many people have mentioned it was the best session they have attended at a conference anywhere!Price Waterhouse Coopers
Tania brings her own special magic to an event. She combines valuable insights with a fantastic singing voice – a truly unique experience. She electrified the European Business Forum.Thinkers 50
A great activity that really brought together our 250 HR leaders as one team. We started with 70% saying they couldn’t sing and finished with an amazing four-part harmony song that they really were proud of. Highly recommended!Andrea Grant, Telstra
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