Testimonials
'This golden-voiced diva gave us all goose bumps. Her message was powerful and her never give up attitude was so inspiring. She has clearly earned her success through hard work and extraordinary talent. Entertaining and brilliant!' Ernst and Young – Entrepreneur of the Year
'Mark Twain said: ‘Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth’. This philosophy epitomizes Tania de Jong!' Professor John Seybolt, Dean of Melbourne Business School
'Tania de Jong brought warmth, enthusiasm and inspiration to our launch of Constellation – Professional Women’s Speaker Series. We were overwhelmed with the positive feedback on our selection of speaker. Tania managed to transcend our business world with her background as a lawyer, evoked compassion and understanding with her family history and encouraged us to be resilient when our dreams are shattered. She inspired us all to look for the music in our lives, let our dreams soar and our voices sing.' Deirdre Hosking, Founding Patron, Constellation, NAB
'Tania de Jong recently delivered a very engaging breakfast presentation to over 80 of my clients at the Melbourne Hilton. Bridgeworks Leadership breakfasts have been running for over 8 years now with over 2,500 people attending during this period. Tania’s presentation was the most engaging speaker we have had - never in my dreams did I believe I would have over 80 of my clients holding hands and singing all in tune! A great testament to the ability of Tania to not only get a critical message across but getting people to take immediate action. Leadership is about taking action - there’s no doubt Tania, that is what you delivered. Great presentation, great fun and most important, a message that people won’t forget. Thanks again for ‘bringing to life’ creativity in leadership. Others are good at the talk, you walk the talk!' Wayne Dyson, Director, Bridgeworks
"The choir offers an opportunity for people to extend their socialization and build relationships outside of their everyday routines. The positive benefits of this are multi-layered. … Opportunities to access such groups are often limited or restricted. Geelong Sings is a unique and valuable format to further socialization activities and extend relationships. Congratulations to Creativity Australia for continuing to find opportunities to increase our well-being through song." Kellie Stone, Encompass Community Services
"Your presentation "Creative Leadership - The Key to Success in Uncertain Times" was excellent, evidenced by the number and calibre of questions from the audience. You provided cutting edge public policy thinking for our Trustees. Feedback from the event has been excellent." CEDA
"The event was a great success, and on a number of different levels. It was fun, built trust and shared experience amongst our group, and helped advance the leadership program we are workshopping. Your contribution was wonderful and you obviously have a winning set of products that are refreshingly different." BHP Worsley Alumina
"Tania’s brought it to the football clubs, the businesses, Government departments. Different groups of people find a common interest that actually loosens up the relationship within any small public group to enable this creativity to take place. I think it’s fantastic what she’s done." Hugh Morgan AC
"Your workshop at the Mind and Its Potential conference was inspiring and exceptionally joyful...My head was still buzzing with the harmony chord for a good hour after the workshop." Irene Tj, Thursday Island Primary Health Care Centre
"I write to congratulate you and your team and your facilitation of the Faculty of Law and Management's recent two day retreat at Werribee Mansion for 32 of our senior staff. I had wanted to do a serious team building exercise and canvassed a number of options deciding against the "rope climbing over water" type facilitators in favor of the creativity exercises that your team undertook. The exercises undertaken were certainly different, and innovative, creative even! I was pleased with your team's efforts to gel our group. The team building undertaken on the first day led to
the excellent planning results we achieved on the second. While we have much to do, we have developed four very clear areas of focus to take us forward over the next decade. Our thanks for your role in leading us to that path." Professor Raymond Harbridge LLD, La Trobe University
"Thank you for your presentation 'Creative City in uncertain times' and Panel organising and facilitation for the recent Business Event/Lunch as part of the Melbourne Awards series. The Creativity theme was excellently presented and well received by the audience - it was very engaging." Wayne Kayler-Thomson, CEO VECCI
"Melbourne Sings performed at the Opening Ceremony of the 2009 Social Enterprise World Forum. They were incredibly enthusiastic and performed an uplifting song that soon had the audience clapping along. Well done for all involved for a spirited performance!" Claire Kearney, Social Ventures Australia
"Tania provided us with an evening of entertainment and personal challenge. Her own history and achievements make for some captivating listening and the group exercise was challenging but was also a fun thing to participate in." Coates
"Tania is most effective with Management and Executive teams who wish to work more cohesively together, or have social dynamic problems within their respective corporations. Teams under pressure, stressed or suffering from communication challenges or executives who wish to be more creative in their leadership approaches would benefit from such an experience. Tania is an accomplished professional and delivered an immaculate performance with substantial impact in a short space of time, which in itself confirmed to the delegates how sustainable new behaviors can become when committed." PHA
