THE CANNABIZ AWARDS 2025
Melanie

Melanie Wentzel

Melanie Wentzel is a people person. She cares about authentic leadership, creating value, and  making room for joy; and she believes in women, in people, and their communities.  

She has committed her career to health system reform and the improvement of health and care  for communities in Australia and abroad. She has a rare talent for the meaningful  implementation of innovative, person-centred systems and technology, is fascinated by people  and their behaviour, and by making what is transactional, transformational.  

The author of Cannabis Queens, and #1 bestselling author of A Love Letter to Women in  Business (from Women Making a Difference), Melanie is a recipient of the Women Changing the  World Emerging Global Leader Award 2024, and has been featured in Forbes Magazine, MJBiz  Daily, Leafie, and Cannabiz, and was an invited panellist at the MJBizCon 2024 Women in  Leadership Forum. She is also twice published in the Medical Journal of Australia

A Bachelor of Psychological Science, she is an experienced Healthcare Strategist, Project- and  Operations Manager, and a graduate of Griffith University, The Australian Institute of Company  Directors, and the Harvard Medical School Executive Education Program. 

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