Lana de Kort is a community capacity builder and entrepreneur who has worked in regional, rural and remote communities in Queensland and the Northern Territory for more than 20 years. Combining best practice business management with circular economy practice, Lana left a decade long role as the General Manager of a state peak volunteering body to return to Clunes, Victoria eight years ago. Raising a family and operating a paddock to plate farm and butcher shop with her husband, Lana joined Clunes Neighbourhood House as their Manager, tasked with the challenge contributing to the liveability of the Clunes township through the contributions of the Neighbourhood House.