Book Nthabi Taukobong For Your Next Event
Creative voice. Soulful wisdom. A new kind of keynote.
Nthabi Taukobong is an interior designer, a storyteller, cultural archivist, and a creative soul who speaks to the quiet, often unseen spaces within us. Through her deeply human and heartfelt talks, Nthabi invites audiences into honest conversations around creative identity, emotional resilience, and the beautiful return to self. Her voice is a refuge for those navigating burnout, creative confusion, or the aching question, “What now?”
Having stepped away from a celebrated design career to honour her own mental and emotional wellbeing, Nthabi now brings a rare kind of truth-telling to the stage – one that uplifts, comforts, and reconnects. Whether she’s addressing students, fellow creatives, or entire communities, her presence is calm yet catalytic.
Why Book Nthabi?
Soul-Led Storytelling
Every talk is a rich tapestry of lived experience, heartfelt truth, and creative reflection. Nthabi’s gift lies in making people feel seen – through words that both anchor and elevate.
Emotional Resonance
Her talks open space for tenderness and transformation, creating safe moments for audiences to reflect, release, and realign with their inner rhythm.
Deep Experience & Insight
With over 25 years in the design world and a lifetime of creative evolution, Nthabi offers wisdom that blends industry knowledge with inner truth.
A Safe Space for Creatives
Through themes of mental health, burnout, reinvention, and soulful self-leadership, Nthabi speaks to the heart of the creative journey – and brings light to places many have walked alone.
Curated for Every Audience
Whether it’s a university, retreat, creative studio, or global stage, each talk is thoughtfully shaped to meet the moment and the people in the room.
Legacy That Lingers
Nthabi’s talks leave an imprint. Her words ripple long after the event ends – igniting clarity, courage, and creative remembrance. Each offering becomes a seed planted, a quiet catalyst for transformation that continues to unfold with time.
Keynote Topics
Theme: Creative Mental Health ✦ Identity ✦ Emotional Liberation
Format: 45–90 min
✦ You Were Never Meant to Stay the Same
A grounding reminder that life moves in seasons – and so do we. This keynote explores the evolution of identity, the exhaustion of staying fixed, and how creatives can un-become the roles that dim their inner light, returning instead to the truth they’ve always known.
✦ When the Dream Ends, and You Don’t
A quiet, reflective offering for those grieving a version of themselves, their career, or a creative path that once gave life. This talk walks through the hush of uncertainty and honours the sacred pause between endings and new beginnings.
✦ The Ache Beneath the Silence
What the Pain Was Really Asking For.
This brave and necessary talk enters the shadowy corners of the creative mind – where burnout blurs into despair, and the longing for relief becomes overwhelming. A soft but steady invitation to listen to what the pain is really saying, and to meet it with compassion, rest, and renewal.
✦ The Other Side of the Breakdown
A sacred return to self. For anyone who has cracked open under pressure, this talk affirms that what feels like a breakdown may in fact be a call to come home. Not a rebuild, but a remembering. With tenderness, it explores what it means to move at the speed of healing.
✦ Breathing Room – A New Way to Hold Your Creative Life.
A keynote that offers radical permission to soften, reset, and breathe. For the ones who’ve pushed through pain too long, this is a liberating space to reimagine your creative rhythm – not by force or fear, but by honouring your energy, emotion, and embodied truth.
✦ The Quiet Crisis of the Creative Mind
An exploration of the mental and emotional toll of living and working creatively in a world that demands constant output. This talk breaks the silence around burnout, anxiety, and isolation in the creative industry – offering language, tools, and hope to those who often suffer in silence.
