Dianne Buckner

Business Journalist

Articulate, straightforward and funny, Dianne Buckner has almost two decades of experience in television as a writer, reporter and producer.  She is best known as the host of CBC's Gemini award winning weekly program, Venture.

Recognised many times over as Canada's most popular business program, Venture puts Buckner backstage with some of the country's most interesting and successful businesses.  Following the real-life drama of commerce as it unfolds, the series covers everything from two-man start-ups to mega mergers.

Buckner is also the host of CBC's hit reality program, Dragon's Den, where hopeful entrepreneurs compete to win investment dollars from Canada's business elite.  

Her most recent program, Fortune Hunters, explores trends through the lens of moneymaking – discovering how people eager for self-employment are exploiting new opportunities. Buckner is a charming speaker with unique qualifications to offer perspective on success, failure, and turbulence in the ever-changing business landscape.

Buckner is a charming speaker with unique qualifications to offer perspective on success, failure, and turbulence in the ever-changing business landscape.


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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