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Dorie Clark
ONE OF THE TOP 50 BUSINESS THINKERS IN THE WORLD
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROFESSOR
SPEAKING FEE: $40,000 - $50,000
Meet Dorie
Dorie Clark has been named three times as one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50 and was recognized as the #1 Communication Coach in the world by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards. Clark, a consultant and keynote speaker, teaches executive education at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School.
Recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. magazine, 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 and one of the Top 10 Business Books of the Year by Forbes. It was also a Washington Post bestseller.
Dorie, whom the New York Times described as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives,” is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review. She consults and speaks for a diverse range of clients, including Google, the World Bank, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, the Ford Foundation, and Yale University.
A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, she has also taught for Spain’s IE Business School, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, HEC-Paris, Babson College, Smith College Executive Education, UNC’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business, and more.
Her work has been published in the Harvard Business Review Guide to Getting the Right Job and the Harvard Business Review Guide to Networking, and she is quoted frequently in the worldwide media, including NPR, the BBC, and MSNBC. She has been a regular commentator on Canada’s CTV and was named one of Inc. magazine’s “100 Great Leadership Speakers for Your Next Conference.”
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 of Business, the University of California-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Georgetown, NYU, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the University of Michigan.
Named #1 Communication Coach by Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches
Consultant to international companies including Google, Microsoft and Morgan Stanley
Internationally recognized business and branding speaker
SPEAKING TOPICS
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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
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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, twice named 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.
Participants 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
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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 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