Keynote Speaker
Re-humanising the Digital Age
Keynotes, workshops, and talks for organisations, schools, and communities confronting the real cost of digital overwhelm. Jane’s talks are aimed at parents raising a generation growing up online, institutions offering health and digital wellbeing programs, and for organisations addressing burnout and disconnection at work.
Jane’s talks are drawn from 40 years inside the technology industry, her burn out from it, and her recovery, grounded in Korean cultural values she has lived and learned from, and backed by research spanning international policy, cross-cultural values and psychology.
“I highly recommend Jane for your next conference, because we all need to be reminded to be human.”
Keynote Speaker ∣ Founder, The Big Talk Academy
Jane’s Talks
“Choosing a Future That's Human”
Oxford Talks
LONDON, ENGLAND
JULY 2025
“Re-humanising our Lives”
The Big Talk
NEW YORK CITY
MAY 2025
Speaking Topics
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Jane shares her personal story of burning out after 30 years in the technology industry, and the moment she realised technology and AI were causing more problems than they were solving.
For leaders, parents, and professionals living with constant connectivity, she shares the difficulties of the digital era when so much of our time is being consumed responding to notifications and habitual scrolling. She shows that it’s not more willpower that’s needed, but a way to sustainably focus on what really matters. For parents, this talk is a reminder that the way we live with our own devices is what our children absorb and repeat.
Audiences leave with a clear, practical starting point to regaining their time, reinvigorating their relationships and their focused presence in their work and their home life.
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Jane speaks to students navigating independence, when academic pressure, social comparison, and round-the-clock connectivity all peak at once and the overwhelm and anxiety lead to relief found on screens. Drawing on her own path from a 30-year technology career to founding Re-humanising, Jane offers students something most digital-wellbeing talks miss: not a lecture on limiting screen time, but a way to actually live the college years they were promised, instead of watching them happen through a phone, in a room full of people doing the same thing.
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Jane shows parents and educators why restricting screen time alone backfires. It doesn't stop the pull, it just drives it underground. Using two practical tools live in the session, audiences map exactly what's actually missing beneath the behaviour, and leave with a real starting point, not another list of rules.
“An exceptional and impactful communicator”
“Jane is an exceptional and impactful communicator. She has always had the ability to project trust and integrity through her extensive knowedge of a subject and the conviction that is abundantly apparent in the delivery of her message.”
MORRIS RASHAD
Principal Enterprise Architect at ACUITAS
“A powerful, dynamic and knowledgeable speaker”
“Her talents as a writer and gift for communication make her a favourite among global audiences. I highly recommend Jane as a keynote speaker, presenter or panelist.”
Speaker, Advocate, Educator
Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
Panels, Workshops and Corporate Training
Jane brings her 30+ years in IT with executive leadership, mentoring and training skills to assist business leaders stop the financial drain from workforces underperforming as a result of digital overwhelm, stress and burnout.
She presents workshops on digital wellbeing practices using Mindful Technology techniques that help recover time back from screens, increase focus and attention, improve sleep, improve clarity, improve relationships and family life, and boost social cohesion within teams.
Presentations and workshops will be tailored to your specific audience and occassion.
** NEW **
Jane is now offering VIP consultations for businesses wanting a clear depiction of their business with a visualisation of their organisation on a page. These classic business models are invaluable to founders, entreprenurs, small businesses and large corporations, capturing the operational and functional landscape in its entirety. An essential tool for identifying resource and funding gaps as well as future planning, these models become one of the most heavily used artifacts within the business.
Jane’s business models are in use within government and private organisations in Australia, where they are relied upon for communication within and across organisational units and for new starters wanting to understand the business context.
Jane Newman as a panelist at a CodeSeoul event on "Using AI as an Engineer"
"Jane speaks with gravitas and authority, having been on both sides: technology designer and technology user struggling with the dehumanising feeling generated by poorly designed systems that ignore the needs of the customer.
Jane’s insights are useful for any organisation-from companies to educational institutions-thinking about the future and how to leverage technology while increasing human connection."
Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
Best Selling Author and Keynote Speaker