Dorie Clark (born 1978) is an American author and executive education professor at Columbia University’s

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Personal life

Clark was born in

Pinehurst, North Carolina Pinehurst, officially The Village of Pinehurst, is a village in Moore County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 17,581, up from 13,124 in 2010 United States census, 2010. "Pinehur ...

and left high school at age 14 to attend the

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at Mary Baldwin College (now University) in Staunton, Virginia. Clark transferred to

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in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1997 with a BA in Philosophy. She was inducted into the

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honor society. In 1999, she completed her Master of Theological Studies at

Harvard Divinity School Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school's mission is to educate its students either in the religious studies, academic study of religion or for leadership role ...

. In 2024, Clark married Alexis Redding, a developmental psychologist who teaches at

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Career

Clark has guest lectured and taught at universities around the world, including

in Cambridge, Massachusetts;

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in Madrid, Spain; and the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO in Moscow, Russia. She has also spoken at the

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. 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,

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, and Business Insider. She hosts “Better,” a weekly video interview program, for

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. She started her career as a journalist at the alternative newsweekly

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. She became the press secretary for former U.S. Labor Secretary

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’s unsuccessful 2002 campaign for Massachusetts governor. She later became the New Hampshire Communication Director for

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’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)

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