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Executive Director, Pivot Group; Founder and Chair Laurance Wines Pty Ltd Perth, Western Australia, Australia Experience: Dianne Laurance's entrepreneurial flair has involved her in a diverse range of successful business ventures including establishing restaurants, design, manufacturing, and property development. Ten years ago she entered the wine industry after purchasing a vineyard in the premium wine-growing region of Margaret River in Western Australia. After building an iconic wine tourism destination and producing ten wines under her own label, she has established herself as one of the best in this industry. Dianne's focus is now to empower women and girls within Australia. Her involvement in a number of organisations including Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World, the Clinton Global Initiative, Ted Women, and Freedom to Create gives her the focus to achieve this. Each of the above organisation's missions is to address world issues, develop a commitment, and reshape the future. Laurance is particularly focused on assisting Indigenous women artists from Western Australian communities to preserve and translate their culture and history through art while at the same time, providing a lucrative business venture for their communities and independence for the women. Laurance supports and is a benefactor of many charitable institutions. She believes very strongly the more you give in life, the more you get back. Her work motto is "CONCEIVE, BELIEVE, ACHIEVE": What the mind can conceive and believe, it will achieve. |

