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Dorie Clark is a marketing strategist and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Fast Company. She has been named four times as one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, was also cited as one of the top 50 leadership and management experts by Inc. magazine. She is a keynote speaker and teaches executive education for Columbia Business School. 

She is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today 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. The New York Times has described her as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives,” and she has been recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press, Inc., and Fortune magazine.

She consults and speaks for a diverse range of clients, including Google, Microsoft, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, Yale University, Deloitte, the Royal Bank of Canada, the Mount Sinai Medical Center, and the U.S. National Park Service. She was also honored as the #1 Communication Coach by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards. 

Clark, a former presidential campaign spokeswoman, has previously taught marketing and communications at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Skolkovo Moscow School of Management, Tufts University, Suffolk University, Emerson College, HEC-Paris, IE Business School in Madrid, Babson College, the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business, Smith College Executive Education, and Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. She was named one of Inc. magazine's "100 Great Leadership Speakers for Your Next Conference," and recognized in Forbes as one of "25 Professional Networking Experts to Watch." 

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, the MIT Sloan School of Management, the University of California-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Georgetown, NYU, and the University of Michigan. Her work has been published in The Harvard Business Review Guide to Getting the Right Job, The Harvard Business Review Guide to Networking, The Harvard Business Review Guide to Office Politics, The Harvard Business Review Guide to Making Better Decisions, and The Harvard Business Review Guide to Dealing with Conflict. She is quoted frequently in the worldwide media, including NPR, the BBC, and MSNBC. 

A former New England Press Association award-winning journalist, Clark is the director of the environmental documentary film The Work of 1000. 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. She is also a producer of a multiple Grammy-winning jazz album and is a lyricist in BMI's Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop, one of the nation's leading musical theatre training programs. Learn more at dorieclark.com and you can subscribe to her e-newsletter at dorieclark.com/subscribe.