Dorie Clark: Business Communication

Dorie Clark is a communication strategist, keynote speaker, and bestselling author who helps leaders build powerful personal brands and think long term about success.

  • Highlights:
    • Named a Top 50 global business thinker by Thinkers50
    • Recognized as the #1 communication coach by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards
    • Executive education faculty at Columbia Business School and Duke University Fuqua School of Business
  • Formats:

    Keynote Speaker and Business Communication Strategist

  • Audiences:

    Corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, professionals, and organizations seeking expertise in leadership communication, personal branding, and long-term strategy.

  • Outcomes:
    1. Strategies to build a powerful professional reputation and personal brand
    2. Insights into long-term strategic thinking for career and business success
    3. Practical tools for communicating ideas with clarity and influence
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  • Travels from: Miami, FL
  • **Fee range: $35,001 - $50,000

Keynote 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 will 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 succeed in today’s competitive job market and build the career you want, you’ll need to reinvent yourself, and ensure that others recognize your unique skills and abilities. In this thought-provoking talk, Dorie Clark will discuss concrete strategies to become a stronger leader through professional reinvention.

You will 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

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 based on her book Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It, Dorie Clark explains how to develop breakthrough 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.

In this talk based on Dorie Clark book Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It, Dorie Clark explains how to build a following around your ideas.

We all know networking is critical to our professional success. But how, specifically, do you develop a powerful network while being truly authentic?

In this talk, Harvard Business Review Press author Dorie Clark guides you through the process. We’ll cover online and real world networking opportunities, how to cultivate mentors, and how to network in a way that feels comfortable and genuine for you.

In this age of disruption, thinking entrepreneurially isn’t just for startups. Increasingly, the most successful companies and professionals recognize the importance of “intrapreneurship.”

Based on her book Entrepreneurial You (Harvard Business Review Press), Duke University adjunct professor 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.

Talent Short Bio

Dorie Clark is an internationally recognized business strategist, keynote speaker, and communication expert known for helping leaders develop strong personal brands and long-term strategic thinking. Named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, she is widely regarded as one of the leading voices on professional reinvention, influence, and leadership communication.

Clark has also been recognized as the world’s number one communication coach by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards, reflecting her influence in helping executives and entrepreneurs communicate their ideas effectively and build lasting reputations.

A sought-after advisor and educator, Clark teaches executive education programs at Columbia Business School and Duke University Fuqua School of Business. Her insights on branding, leadership, and strategy have been featured by leading media outlets including Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc..

Clark is the author of several influential books including The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, and Stand Out. Her book Stand Out was named the number one leadership book of the year by Inc. and listed among the top business books of the year by Forbes and The Washington Post.

Dorie Clark is a keynote speaker on business and communication, recognized internationally for her unparalleled insights and contributions.

As a distinguished consultant and keynote speaker, Dorie Clark imparts her wealth of knowledge to executives at prestigious institutions such as Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School. Regarded as a foremost authority on branding, Dorie has earned acclaim from esteemed publications like the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. magazine.

Dorie Clark’s journey is one of relentless dedication to mastery and innovation. With a background spanning consulting, teaching, and prolific writing, she brings a multifaceted perspective to the table. After graduating from Smith College with honors, Dorie pursued a career in journalism, covering a diverse array of topics ranging from politics to travel.

Her journalistic endeavors honed her ability to distill complex concepts into digestible insights, a skill that would prove invaluable in her subsequent ventures. Transitioning into the realm of consulting, Dorie found her niche in helping individuals and organizations cultivate their unique brand identities.

Through her strategic guidance, countless professionals have unlocked their full potential, distinguishing themselves in competitive landscapes. Dorie’s expertise in personal branding has earned her widespread recognition, solidifying her status as a trusted advisor to executives and entrepreneurs alike. In addition to her consulting work, Dorie is deeply committed to education, serving as an esteemed faculty member at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School.

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