SPEAKING & WRITING
Some ideas need a room.
Others need a page.
SPEAKING
Janéne speaks and writes at the intersection of nature, leadership, and the art of paying attention — drawing on biomimicry, systems thinking, and a lifelong creative practice to offer perspectives that are as practical as they are unexpected.
SIGNATURE TALK
Ways of Seeing in Nature, Leadership and Life
Keynote · TEDx
What would change if leaders learned to truly pay attention — not just to data and deliverables, but to the living systems around them, and to the intelligence that lives at the edges of what we usually notice?
Drawing on art theory, biomimicry, and nature-connected practice, this talk explores creative attention as a leadership discipline — and the surprisingly radical act of seeing what's actually there, rather than what we expect to find.
Available as a keynote or TEDx talk, in 15 and 45-minute formats.
LEADERSHIP ROUND THE TABLE
A nature-connected speaking series on team effectiveness
Collaboration Round the Table
AVAILABLE NOW
True collaboration is rarer than we think — in nature, and in organisations. On the slopes of Table Mountain, Janéne discovered that working together isn't a single thing. It's a spectrum: from elegant cooperation to fierce coopetition, from the deep cellular integration of mycorrhizal fungi to what she calls Cosmic Citizenship.
This talk uses the living systems of the Cape fynbos to map four distinct levels of working together — and invites teams to locate themselves honestly, and take one step higher.
Available as a keynote or TEDx talk, in 15 and 45-minute formats.
Constructive Conflict · Communication · Collective Awareness · Cohesive Alignment · Creative Innovation
COMING SOON
Five further talks, each exploring a dimension of high-performing teams through the lens of living systems.
The Leadership Round the Table talks are developed from Jack Frost's nature-connected walkshop methodology. To bring the full immersive experience to your organisation, visit jackfroststudio.com.
BEYOND THE MOUNTAIN
Independent talks on culture, society, and the wider world
COMING SOON
Talks that reach beyond corporate leadership into broader cultural, social, and philosophical territory.
For speaking enquiries: janene@janenesteenkamp.com
Connecting. Belonging. Teaming.
On the power of empathetic connection in organisations — and why the quality of our relationships matters more than the quantity.
The Micro and Macro of Purpose
On other-centredness as an organisational principle — and what it looks like when leaders genuinely commit to it.
WRITING
Janéne writes about nature, leadership, creativity, and what happens when you pay close attention to all three. Her writing is grounded in practice — in the facilitation room, on the Mountain, and in the studio.
A BOOK IS IN DEVELOPMENT
The Leadership Round the Table series — which takes teams into nature to explore what living systems can teach us about working together — is the foundation for Janéne's first book. More details to follow.