Today’s guest has held a wide array of leadership positions including, presidential campaign spokeswoman, nonprofit executive director, award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and she received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. And proving that she can do anything she puts her mind to: two days before this episode aired she became a Grammy-winning jazz producer!
All of these experiences inform her work as a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to many publications including Harvard Business Review, TIME, and Entrepreneur.
Recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. magazine, she is the author of two books “Reinventing You” and “Stand Out.” For “Stand Out” she interviewed 50 of the world’s top experts to understand how they developed powerful ideas and got recognized for them. I’m pleased to share that I was one of the experts she interviewed. Stand Out was named the #1 Leadership Book of 2015 by Inc. magazine and was a Washington Post bestseller.
She consults and speaks for a diverse range of clients, including Google, the World Bank, Ford Foundation, Yale University, and the National Park Service.
She is also an adjunct professor of business administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a Visiting Professor for IE Business School in Madrid, Spain.
She was recognized in Forbes as one of “25 Professional Networking Experts to Watch in 2015” and is quoted frequently in the worldwide media, including NPR, the BBC, and MSNBC.
Please join me in welcoming Dorie Clark.
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In this episode we explore:
- her definition of leadership: “Being aware that your actions have consequences for other people and therefore not taking them lightly.”
- how being an out gay woman, who is recognized as a business authority, is a form of activism
- how changes in how media was created and consumed required her to keep changing her business focus
- the advice she would tell anyone looking to stand out and build a following
- her strategy of hosting private dinner parties to create networking opportunities
Stay tuned until the end of the episode to hear what I thought were the key take-aways you could put into practice this week and benefit from for years to come.
LINKS
- Dorie Clark on LinkedIn and Twitter
- DorieClark.com
- Dorie Clark's free 42-page Stand Out self-assessment workbook to help professionals develop and share their own breakthrough ideas
- Dorie Clark's books on Amazon – “Stand Out”, “Stand Out Networking”, and “Reinventing You”
- Dorie Clark's private dinner party networking strategy via “Entrepreneur Magazine”
- Email Marketing Checklist by Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income
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