Dorie Clark (born 1978) is an American author and executive education professor at Duke University’s
Fuqua School of Business
The Fuqua School of Business (pronounced ) is the business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. It enrolls more than 1,300 students in degree-seeking programs. Duke Executive Education also offers non-degree business education and ...
.
Early life and education
Clark was born in
Pinehurst, North Carolina
Pinehurst is a village in Moore County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 13,124. It is home of the historic Pinehurst Resort, a Golf resort, which has hosted multiple United States Open Champion ...
and left high school at age 14 to attend the
Program for the Exceptionally Gifted at Mary Baldwin College (now University) in Staunton, Virginia.
Clark transferred to
Smith College
Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith (Smith College ...
in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1997 with a BA in Philosophy. She was inducted into the
Phi Beta Kappa honor society. In 1999, she completed her Master of Theological Studies at
Harvard Divinity School.
Career
Clark has guest lectured and taught at universities around the world, including
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts;
in Madrid, Spain;
and the
Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO is a Graduate school, graduate business school located near Skolkovo, Moscow Oblast, close to Moscow, Russia. The school, founded in 2006, is a joint project between major Russian and international busines ...
in Moscow, Russia.
She has also spoken at the
U.S. Library of Congress.
Clark has been described by the New York Times as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.”
She is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review,
,
and Business Insider. She hosts “Better,” a weekly video interview program, for
Newsweek.
She started her career as a journalist at the alternative newsweekly
The Boston Phoenix.
She became the press secretary for former U.S. Labor Secretary
Robert Reich’s unsuccessful 2002 campaign for Massachusetts governor.
She later became the New Hampshire Communication Director for
Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign.
Books
* Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013)
* Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It (Portfolio/Penguin, 2015)
* Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive (Harvard Business Review Press, 2017)
* The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021)
References
External links
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1978 births
Living people
American writers
Smith College alumni
Harvard Divinity School alumni
People from Pinehurst, North Carolina
LGBT people from North Carolina
21st-century LGBT people
Writers from North Carolina
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American business writers
American academics
American women academics
Academics from North Carolina