Dorie Clark one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, and was honored as the #1 Communication Coach in the world by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards. She is a keynote speaker and teaches executive education for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School. Clark is the author of 2021’s The Long Game and Stand Out, among others.
Dorie Clark’s Speech Topics:
Dorie works hard to collaborate with event organizers to ensure my talk helps you achieve your business objectives, whether that’s developing more effective and persuasive leaders, helping employees navigate changing business circumstances, or enabling your workforce to become more proactive in shaping their career trajectory. My keynotes blend engaging academic research with real world examples and hands-on, practical tips that audience members can put to use right away. My goal is not simply to entertain – or even educate – for an hour. It’s to help you build lasting change and improvement in your organization.
How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World
It’s no secret that today’s leaders feel pulled in too many directions. In this talk, Dorie Clark 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
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.
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
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.
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.
Videos:
TEDx – Finding Your Breakthrough Idea
Google Talks – Entrepreneurial You
Dorie Clark’s Bio:
Dorie Clark has been named 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 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. Her books have been translated into Russian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Polish, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Vietnamese, and Thai.
Clark, 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, Clark has also taught for Spain’s IE Business School, HEC-Paris, Babson College, Smith College Executive Education, UNC’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business, and more.
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.
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.”
A former New England Press Association award-winning journalist, Clark directed the environmental documentary film The Work of 1000, and was a producer for a multiple-Grammy-winning jazz album. She is a Broadway investor, as well as a member of BMI’s Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop, widely considered the premier training ground for musical theater lyricists and composers.
At age 14, Clark entered Mary Baldwin College’s Program for the Exceptionally Gifted. At 18, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College, and two years later received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School.
