Overview
Dorie Clark is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, and executive coach who helps professionals and organizations amplify their ideas and achieve long-term success. Per her official about page at dorieclark.com, she has been named four times as 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. She teaches executive education at Columbia Business School (and has taught at Duke Fuqua and others).
She is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, and Stand Out (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.” Clients include Google, Microsoft, and the World Bank; she is a frequent Harvard Business Review contributor.
Why SUCCESS readers care
Clark’s beat—personal branding, reinvention, long-term strategy, and entrepreneurial careers—is classic SUCCESS territory. Readers building a personal brand or playing a longer professional game will recognize her books and talks as practical personal development, not abstract theory.
Proof points
- 4× Thinkers50 Top 50; #1 Communication Coach (Marshall Goldsmith awards) (dorieclark.com/about)
- Books: The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, Stand Out (#1 Leadership Book of the Year, Inc.)
- Executive education: Columbia Business School; speaks for Google, Microsoft, World Bank
- Frequent Harvard Business Review contributor; NYT: “expert at self-reinvention”
- TEDx talks including The Real Reason We’re All So Busy and Finding Your Breakthrough Idea