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 best-selling 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. You can download her free Long Game Strategic Thinking Self-Assessment at dorieclark.com/thelonggame.

Topics:

  • It’s no secret that today’s leaders 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

  • Being recognized as a compelling leader can dramatically accelerate your professional success. Building on her book Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press), Dorie Clark–a Duke University Fuqua School of Business professor, former presidential campaign spokesperson, and HBR contributor–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:

    • 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

  • 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

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