Dianne Jones serves with JLL as a Managing Director under the Business and Economic Incentives Practice (BEI). Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, she specializes in assisting clients with full-service site selection and incentives negotiations across the Southeast. Dianne is responsible for the oversight of site selection and incentives negotiation services to both privately held and publicly traded companies across the United States. Dianne’s expertise has assisted several expansions, site selection and corporate relocation projects, ranging in size from $120,000 to over $1 billion in multiple states. She has a heavy focus on operational analysis and labor analytics in the location decision making process. Dianne received a B.A. in Business Administration from Methodist University. She is a licensed real estate broker in both North Carolina and South Carolina. Dianne is a Charlotte native and an active member of CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) and serves as the co-chair for the student outreach committee as well as the strategic planning committee. She also sits on the board of directors for Legal Studies at Methodist University, as well as the board of directors at East Mecklenburg High School where she graduated. In 2020, Dianne won the Member-to-Member Impact award from CREW on both the local and national level. The Mecklenburg Times named Dianne as one of the 50 Most Influential Women in 2021. In that same year, Dianne was a speaker at the SelectUSA Investment Summit on the topic of Site Selection. She has also been a speaker for NAIOP, GACC South, NCEDA, Area Development, IPT and several local EDOs across the United States.