Dorie Clark
Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review. Recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. magazine, she is the author of Entrepreneurial You (Harvard Business Review Press,), Reinventing You, and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of 2015 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, and Thai.
Clark, whom the New York Times described as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives,” consults and speaks for a diverse range of clients, including Google, the World Bank, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Yale University.
A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, Clark is an adjunct professor of business administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a Visiting Professor for IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. 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 is also 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.Â
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. You can download her Entrepreneurial You self-assessment at dorieclark.com/entrepreneur.
066: Dorie Clark, part 2: “And that is how you make progress”
Dorie shares about the six-month habit she committed to—one of the longest of any guest.
Wait, can you just decide one day to start or stop a habit? Isn’t that impossible?
Listen to Dorie’s results. She’s a master of habits: how to create them, start them, and teach others to do so. She shares how she works.
With some guests you feel like they’re always conscious of the microphone. Not Dorie. Most of us are so genuine with friends and family. I think we all wish we could stay that way in public, without pretense or affectation.
We have a lot of mutual friends. Every one of them will tell you that she’s incredibly open, sharing about herself. She shares how she achieves this personal mastery, methodically and effectively.
This conversation is more about personal leadership, which environmental action needs, if you ask me. Few people who work on the environment show it.
We met at the café of her commitment so you’ll hear we’re on the street. I liked the informality.
017: Dorie Clark, Conversation 1, Make Yourself Known
Talk about a generous conversation!
Dorie Clark shares about how to make yourself known, to become a leader, and to connect with others.
She shares her personal experiences, since she didn’t start with any advantages, and some of what she shares in her books. We talked about one of my big questions: do you need to go through a major life challenge—a crucible—to achieve greatness or to become a leader.
When we got to talking about the environment and her personal challenge, you can hear in how she takes on hers that she’s taken on many challenges before. If you want to improve your skills in taking on challenges and succeeding at them, her perspective reveals a lot to learn from.
Her challenge is, I think, the longest challenge someone committed to as her first. Listen to hear it.