Dorie Clark | Self-reinvention and branding expert, Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Duke & Columbia Business Professor, Thinkers 50 Top Business Thinker in the World

Dorie Clark

Self-reinvention and branding expert, Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Duke & Columbia Business Professor, Thinkers 50 Top Business Thinker in the World

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Dorie Clark
Biography

Dorie Clark is a marketing strategist and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Fast Company. She has been named four times as one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, was also cited as one of the top 50 leadership and management experts by Inc. magazine. She is a keynote speaker and teaches executive education for Columbia Business School. 

She is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of the Year by Inc. magazine. The New York Times has described her as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives,” and she has been recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press, Inc., and Fortune magazine.

She consults and speaks for a diverse range of clients, including Google, Microsoft, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, Yale University, Deloitte, the Royal Bank of Canada, the Mount Sinai Medical Center, and the U.S. National Park Service. She was also honored as the #1 Communication Coach by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards. 

Clark, a former presidential campaign spokeswoman, has previously taught marketing and communications at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Skolkovo Moscow School of Management, Tufts University, Suffolk University, Emerson College, HEC-Paris, IE Business School in Madrid, Babson College, the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business, Smith College Executive Education, and Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. She was named one of Inc. magazine's "100 Great Leadership Speakers for Your Next Conference," and recognized in Forbes as one of "25 Professional Networking Experts to Watch." 

She has guest lectured at universities including Harvard Business School, the Harvard Kennedy School, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, the MIT Sloan School of Management, the University of California-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Georgetown, NYU, and the University of Michigan. Her work has been published in The Harvard Business Review Guide to Getting the Right Job, The Harvard Business Review Guide to Networking, The Harvard Business Review Guide to Office Politics, The Harvard Business Review Guide to Making Better Decisions, and The Harvard Business Review Guide to Dealing with Conflict. She is quoted frequently in the worldwide media, including NPR, the BBC, and MSNBC. 

A former New England Press Association award-winning journalist, Clark is the director of the environmental documentary film The Work of 1000. At age 14, Clark entered Mary Baldwin College’s Program for the Exceptionally Gifted. At 18, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College, and two years later received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. She is also a producer of a multiple Grammy-winning jazz album and is a lyricist in BMI's Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop, one of the nation's leading musical theatre training programs. 

Dorie Clark
Featured Videos

Current: TEDx: How to Future-Proof Your Career

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TEDx: How to Future-Proof Your Career
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Dorie Clark
Featured Keynote Programs

How to Think Entrepreneurially Inside Your Company

In this age of disruption, thinking
entrepreneurially isn’t just for startups.
Increasingly, the most successful companies and
professionals recognize the importance of
“intrapreneurship.” Dorie Clark shares
research-based strategies for how to harness
your full creative potential, as well as create an
organizational culture that helps your colleagues
and employees embrace an entrepreneurial
mindset. We’ll discuss how to:
• Reframe existing problems in
order to get breakthrough results
• Test new ideas in strategic
and low-risk ways
• Learn from – and speak openly
about – failure
• Marshal support for new ideas
inside your organization

Stand Out Networking

We all know networking is critical to our professional success. But
how, specifically, do you develop a powerful network while being
truly authentic? In this talk, Dorie Clark guides you through the
process. We’ll cover online and real world networking opportunities,
how to cultivate mentors, and how to network in a way that feels
comfortable and genuine for you. In this session, you’ll learn how to:
• Make yourself an indispensable connector
• Identify overlooked or unconventional mentors
who can help you immeasurably
• Inspire others to want to seek you out
• Develop online content that makes your reach truly global

How to Build a Following Around Your Ideas

Too many people believe that if they keep their heads down and
work hard, they will be lauded as experts on the merits of their
work. But that’s simply not true anymore. To advance your business
or your cause, you have to inspire others to listen and take action.
Dorie Clark explains how to build a following around your ideas,
and you’ll learn how to:
• Break through the noise and communicate in a
way that makes others take notice
• Create a community that helps your idea spread
• Leverage social networks – online and off –
to gain momentum
• Ensure your ideas receive the attention they
deserve and make an impact

Stand Out
How to Develop Breakthrough Ideas

To succeed in today’s competitive business environment, it’s
essential to keep raising the bar. But how can you best encourage
and cultivate innovative ideas? In this talk, Dorie Clark explains how
to develop breakthrough concepts. You’ll learn how to:
• Identify and develop ideas that will make a
competitive difference for your company
• Gain support for those ideas internally and externally,
so they can make a broader impact
• Ensure both you and your company are viewed as
cutting-edge leaders in your field

Dorie Clark
Featured Books

The Long Gameby Dorie Clark

The Long Game

by Dorie Clark
ENTREPRENEURIAL YOUby Dorie Clark

ENTREPRENEURIAL YOU

by Dorie Clark
REINVENTING YOUby Dorie Clark

REINVENTING YOU

by Dorie Clark
STAND OUTby Dorie Clark

STAND OUT

by Dorie Clark
STAND OUT NETWORKINGby Dorie Clark

STAND OUT NETWORKING

by Dorie Clark

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