Lynda Gratton
Thinkers50 Hall of Fame 2024 | Professor at London Business School | Founder of HSM Advisory | Author of 'The 100-Year Life' & 'Redesigning Work'
Dorie Clark
4x Top 50 Business Thinker - Thinkers50 | #1 Communication Coach - Marshall Goldsmith Awards | Columbia Business School Educator | WSJ Bestselling Author
Speaker Dorie Clark is a four-time Thinkers50 Top 50 Business Thinker and the world's #1 Communication Coach. She is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author and teaches executive education at Columbia Business School. Her keynotes give senior audiences strategic frameworks for long-term thinking, personal brand building, and navigating reinvention in an AI-driven economy.
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Dorie Clark biography
Speaker Dorie Clark has been recognized four times by Thinkers50 as one of the top 50 business thinkers in the world and named the #1 Communication Coach globally by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards. A Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author, she teaches executive education at Columbia Business School and previously at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where she has guided thousands of senior leaders through career reinvention and long-term strategic thinking.
Clark is the author of acclaimed business books including The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, and Stand Out, the last of 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. Her work has been translated into multiple languages and shapes conversations across the Thinkers50 community. Inc. magazine recently included her in its Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts list, and the Harvard Business Review continues to publish her work on strategy, personal branding, and reinvention.
A career built on reinvention
Described by the New York Times as an “expert at self-reinvention,” Clark began her career as a presidential campaign spokeswoman and journalist before becoming a marketing strategist. Her client list spans Google, Microsoft, the World Bank, Yale University, and the Ford Foundation. Beyond business, she is a Grammy-winning jazz album producer, a documentary film director, and a Broadway investor, work she discusses on her official site.
As a speaker, Dorie Clark equips senior audiences with frameworks for thinking strategically over years rather than quarters, building durable personal brands, and navigating disruption from generative AI to hybrid work. Her keynotes blend academic rigor, original research, and practical tools that executives can apply the moment they leave the room.
Dorie Clark Speaking Videos
Dorie Clark - The Real Reason We're All So Busy (and What to Do About It)
Dorie Clark - Finding your breakthrough idea
Dorie Clark Keynote Topics
Most leaders and professionals know they should focus on long-term goals, but they spend their days handling short-term crises and reactive demands. Drawing on her bestseller The Long Game (Harvard Business Review Press), Dorie Clark gives senior audiences a practical playbook for thinking in years and decades rather than quarters. She covers how to identify the right long-term bets, how to protect time for high-leverage work, and how to stay the course when results are slow to materialize.
The pace of change in markets, technology, and workforce expectations now exceeds the planning cycles of most organizations. Dorie Clark, a four-time Thinkers50 honoree and Columbia Business School executive educator, walks audiences through frameworks for sensing change earlier, learning faster from setbacks, and building the cognitive flexibility that distinguishes durable leaders from reactive ones.
Building on her widely viewed TED talk, Dorie Clark unpacks the upstream decisions that leave even disciplined executives feeling buried in meetings, messages, and obligations. She presents research on why busy-ness becomes self-reinforcing at senior levels and offers a clear framework for making strategic time allocation choices that increase impact rather than activity.
Generative AI, hybrid work, and shifting employer-employee dynamics are forcing a wave of professional reinvention. Drawing on her book Reinventing You, Dorie Clark guides audiences through the practical steps of repositioning their expertise, building visibility, and aligning their next chapter with where work is actually heading.
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FAQs on Booking Dorie Clark
Why Dorie Clark?
Dorie Clark stands out because she combines the rare credentials of a four-time Thinkers50 Top 50 Business Thinker, the world's #1 Communication Coach per the Marshall Goldsmith Awards, and a Wall Street Journal bestselling author who actively teaches executive education at Columbia Business School. She translates academic research into immediately actionable frameworks for senior audiences, with engagement experience at Google, Microsoft, the World Bank, and Yale. On stage, she balances rigor with warmth, leaving executives with concrete tools for long-term strategy, reinvention, and standing out in their fields. Book Dorie Clark through Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring a thinker of her caliber to your next event.
What topics does Dorie Clark cover in her keynotes?
Dorie Clark's keynotes focus on long-term strategic thinking, personal brand and thought leadership, career reinvention, and how leaders should respond to generative AI and hybrid work. Her signature talks include The Long Game (based on her bestseller), Reinventing You (career pivots), and The Real Reason We're All So Busy (an extension of her TED talk with more than two million views). Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to tailor a Dorie Clark keynote to your audience and event objectives.
Where does Dorie Clark teach?
Dorie Clark teaches executive education at Columbia Business School and has also taught at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Her courses focus on personal branding, strategic communication, and long-term career planning for senior executives, founders, and aspiring thought leaders.
What are Dorie Clark's most popular books?
Dorie Clark's most influential books are The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World (Harvard Business Review Press), Stand Out (named the #1 Leadership Book of the Year by Inc. magazine and one of Forbes' Top 10 Business Books of the Year), Reinventing You, and Entrepreneurial You. Her work also appears regularly in the Harvard Business Review and on Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller lists.
How to book Dorie Clark as a keynote speaker?
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How much is Dorie Clark speaking fee?
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Can I book Dorie Clark for a virtual keynote?
Yes, Dorie Clark is available for virtual keynotes and webinars. To book Dorie Clark for a virtual event, please complete the contact form or send us an email to inquire about the special fees for virtual engagements.
