Dianne is best-known to Canadians as the host of CBC Television's hit reality program "Dragons' Den", where eager entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a group of self-made Canadian millionaire investors.   Television viewers may also remember her from "Venture", the successful and long-running series she hosted for 10 years, chronicling the adventures of entreprenurs. 

Prior to coming to CBC, Dianne spent five years at CTV, where she hosted the popular consumer program "Live It Up!", and was back-up host for "Canada AM". She also worked as a news reporter for "CTV National News".

Her media credentials are not only in television and radio, Dianne also has a profile in print media. She writes for the Metro chain of newspapers, parlaying her 18 years of business journalism into a weekly column for the Workology section of the paper.  She has also reviewed books for the Globe and Mail.  

In addition to her specialty in business, Dianne maintains a perspective on world events, working as a news anchor for the CBC News Network. 

In the course of her work, Dianne has spoken with prime ministers, celebrity CEOs such as Jack Welch and super investor Warren Buffet, and has traveled extensively to countries such as Japan, Australia, the Netherlands and Iceland in pursuit of stories for CBC viewers.   Her perspective on the world, and on the world of business, is unique.

Client Testimonials:

"Dianne was an absolute delight to work with prior to the event, during, and even after the evening's formal agenda was complete. She was keen to understand our group's mandate and modified her remarks to make them as relevant to our crowd of 400 as possible. Dianne was supremely confident onstage, made several on-the-fly adjustments to her comments based on speaker content and drew things to a close right on cue. Dianne is an excellent speaker whom I would recommend without hesitation."

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