Dorie Clark

2x Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World

Dorie Clark

2x Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World

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Biography

Dorie Clark helps individuals and companies get their best ideas heard in a crowded, noisy world. She has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50. She was honored as the #1 Communication Coach by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards and one of the Top 5 Communication Professionals in the World by Global Gurus. She is a keynote speaker and teaches for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School.

She is the Wall Street Journal 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.

A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, Clark has been described by the New York Times as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.” She is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and consults and speaks for clients such as Google, Yale University, and the World Bank. Forbes has declared that “her insights connect marketing, social media, communications, learning technologies, and personal discovery to give us a blueprint for success in the future economy.”

She is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, a producer of a multiple Grammy-winning jazz album, and a Broadway investor.

Speaker Videos

Dorie Clark | How to Be a Long Term Thinker in a Short Term World | Talks at Google

Investing In Yourself for Your Career

How to Future-Proof Your Career | Dorie Clark | TEDxLugano

Speech Topics

How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

It's no secret that today's leaders and professionals feel pulled in too many directions. We want to be long-term thinkers, but we're constantly putting out fires and dealing with short-term challenges. In this talk, Dorie Clark - Harvard Business Review author and Columbia Business School executive education professor — will share concrete strategies to help you sharpen your strategic thinking and balance competing short- and long-term priorities.

You will learn how to:

Identify areas with unique potential for leverage
Understand what we're optimizing for
Make the right kind of tradeoffs
Achieve 'strategic patience'
Place little bets to find promising leads and emergent possibilities

Cultivating Mental Agility in a Complex World

Now more than ever, we have to be ready to adapt to rapid change – and, even better, predict it. Columbia University executive education professor Dorie Clark – named three times as one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World - will share strategies to help you nimbly adjust when the situation changes, learn from the past, and get smarter about planning for the future.

You will learn how to:

Create 'smart networks' that enable you to predict changes ahead of others
Analyze bad outcomes - before they happen, so you can prevent them
Seize opportunity by leveraging your unique advantages
Harness the forces that create serendipity

Building Your Brand as a Leader

Being recognized as a compelling leader can dramatically accelerate your professional success. Columbia Business School executive education professor Dorie Clark will show you how to cultivate a powerful professional reputation that enables you to persuade others and obtain buy-in more easily for your best ideas.

You will learn how to:

Increase your influence within and outside your organization
Communicate your brand effectively to others
Establish and cultivate your reputation over time
Ensure others understand your true leadership abilities

Reinventing You in the Age of AI

Between the post-pandemic shifts in the workplace (including hybrid and remote work) and the rise of artificial intelligence (including ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies), we're facing rapid, profound disruption. In this talk, Dorie Clark - author of Reinventing You (Harvard Business Review Press) - will discuss practical strategies to help you stay ahead of the curve in your career, take charge of your professional development, and ensure your skills and abilities are fully recognized at work.

You'll learn how to:

Discover how you're currently perceived
Strategically position yourself for the future
Leverage your unique strengths
Powerfully demonstrate the contribution you can make at work

Testimonials

"Dorie Clark's message about professional reinvention and building a following around your ideas is essential in today's rapidly changing corporate environment. She's a compelling speaker who inspires audiences to take action, embrace innovative thinking, and take ownership over their professional lives."

- Global Chief Marketing Officer, Deloitte

"Dorie has a unique ability to take what can be an esoteric topic - leadership brand - and make it both practical and meaningful. She gave our employees useful tools to build their brand throughout their career and did it in a fun way."

- VP, Global Talent and Organization Development, Yum! Brands (Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut)

"Dorie Clark recently spoke to my team at Google about building your brand as a leader and how to ensure that others are clear on the value you bring to the table. She offered tangible ideas on how to think about career development, personal branding, and bringing your authentic self to the workplace. My team absolutely adored Dorie and was highly engaged and grateful to have such a dynamic and relatable speaker."

- Director, Customer Success, Google

"Dorie is a dynamic, approachable, and humble presenter who balances stimulating stories with actionable advice. Not every author or thought leader practices what they preach, but Dorie's recommendations are that much more valuable because they are informed by her own experiences, pivots, and learning. Your next leadership meeting, offsite, or conference would be better with Dorie involved - it's that simple."

- Director of Special Programs, Wharton Alumni Club of New York

"Dorie's presentation of her book Reinventing You to a standing room only crowd was such a success that we requested Dorie to host another session, which ended up being standing room only, as well. Dorie's effective delivery style and solid command of her book's message on creating and marketing one's personal brand was highly engaging."

- Former Head, Banking on Women, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group

"After Dorie spoke about networking strategies with our group of recent hires, we noticed groups practicing the models she discussed during the large networking reception we held later that day. What great advice and it keeps on giving, as I have referred to her talk myself with several groups since then. Thank you!"

- Lead Facilitator, Leadership Development, Aon Services Corporation