Dorie Clark

Dorrie helps professionals and organizations amplify their ideas in a competitive landscape and achieve long-term success

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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

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

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

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

Dorie is a true inspiration to everyone with whom she speaks and to the very principle of personal reinvention. We had the honor of Dorie speaking a couple times to the IBM Communications team — on the topic of personal and professional reinvention. Not only has she intellectually challenged each of us, she created a solid foundation for action and for individual and team improvement. We would highly recommend her to others!

Ray Day

Chief Communications Officer, IBM

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.

Mark Lagestee

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.

Jessica Simmons

Director, Customer Success, Google

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.

Patience Marime-Ball

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

Dorie Clark has important advice for people navigating the turbulent waters of jobs and careers.

Robert Reich

Former US Secretary of Labor

Dorie Clark has had an outsize influence on people trying to break through in their careers. She has helped talented people overcome barriers of indifference to find lives of purpose that they love. She has also been a pioneer in the world of “create-your-own way” careers, using creativity and candor throughout.

Professor Rita McGrath

Columbia Business School and Top 5 Worldwide Business Thinker

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.

Andrew Stern

Director of Special Programs, Wharton Alumni Club of New York

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Dorie Clark's Books

Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It

Reinventing You, With a New Preface: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future

Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive

The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World