A lawyer who left to build.
Lauren Dare trained as a lawyer at some of Australia's largest law firms and worked as Legal Counsel to a billionaire. That world taught her how to think: to hold complexity, read people and build arguments that survive contact with reality. It did not teach her how to build, so she left to learn that the hard way.
Over the past decade, Lauren and her husband have built and run businesses across multiple industries. Their first, Dare Recruitment, is now in its eleventh year. What began as a traditional professional services business has become one of the live laboratories for Lauren’s wider work: how an existing human-led business can be rebuilt for the age of AI without losing the judgment, relationships and trust that made it valuable in the first place.
That question now sits underneath everything she does. Lauren’s work is not about using AI to make humans smaller, faster or more compliant. It is about designing systems that move the human upward.
Agentic AI changes what businesses can become, but only if the structure is right. The starting point is not the tool. It is the operating model.
Who decides? What should be automated? What should remain deeply human? Where should judgment sit? What should the machine do, and what must the human become?
Those questions now run through her books, ventures and systems.
Lauren’s approach also begins at home. She is a wife and mother to four spectacular children under eight. Her family is the gravitational mass at the centre of her galaxy.
They are the reason this work is not abstract to her. The way we live, learn, work and build is not a side question. It is the question.
Lauren is interested in a future where families are less fragmented, learning is more alive, work is more human and technology restores possibility rather than narrowing it.
The age of abundant intelligence does not ask us to become less human. It asks us to become more so.
