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 professionals feel pulled in too many directions. In this talk, Dorie Clark - Harvard Business Review author and Duke University Fuqua School of Business executive education professor – will share concrete strategies to help you sharpen your strategic thinking and embrace a long-term perspective that pays future business and career dividends.

You’ll learn how to:

Create priorities with the future in mind
Understand what we’re optimizing for
Make the right kind of tradeoffs
Achieve ‘strategic patience’
Place little bets to identify promising leads and emergent possibilities

Building Your Brand as a Leader

Being recognized as a compelling leader can dramatically accelerate your professional success. 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’ll learn how to:

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

Reinventing You

Are you where you want to be professionally? To build the career you want, you’ll need to reinvent yourself, and ensure that others recognize your unique skills and abilities. Dorie Clark will discuss concrete strategies to become a stronger leader through professional reinvention.

You’ll learn how to:

Discover how you’re currently perceived
Identify the essence of your brand
Leverage your unique strengths
Powerfully demonstrate the contribution only you can make

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

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 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 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

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