Dorie Clark

It’s no secret that today’s professionals feel pulled in too many directions. In this talk, Dorie Clark – Harvard Business Review author and Duke University Fuqua School of Business executive education professor – will share concrete strategies to help you sharpen your strategic thinking and embrace a long-term perspective that pays future business and career dividends.

You’ll learn how to:
• Create priorities with the future in mind
• Understand what we’re optimizing for
• Make the right kind of tradeoffs
• Achieve ‘strategic patience’
• Place little bets to identify promising leads and emergent possibilities

Now more than ever, we have to be ready to adapt to rapid change – and, even better, predict it. Columbia University executive education professor Dorie Clark – twice named one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World – will share strategies to help you nimbly adjust when the situation changes, learn from the past, and get smarter about planning for the future.

Participants will learn how to:

• Create ‘smart networks’ that enable you to predict changes ahead of others
• Analyze bad outcomes – before they happen, so you can prevent them
• Seize opportunity by leveraging your unique advantages
• Harness the forces that create serendipity

These days, every professional is pressed for time. But it’s not just too many meetings and too many emails. It turns out we’re making upstream choices that render us busy – and feeling overwhelmed – much of the time. In this expanded version of her viral TED.com talk (2 million+ views), Wall Street Journal bestselling author Dorie Clark shares research that reveals the hidden reasons behind the choices we’re making, and practical tips to break the cycle. That enables us to make better strategic choices about how and where we want to spend our time to achieve the greatest impact.

You’ll learn how to:
• Create white space in your schedule, so you can finally think
• Guard your priorities and convey them to others – without creating friction
• Feel more in control of your time and your calendar
• Achieve more, because you’re focusing on the right things

Between the post-pandemic shifts in the workplace (including hybrid and remote work) and the rise of artificial intelligence (including ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies), we’re facing rapid, profound disruption. In this talk, Dorie Clark – author of Reinventing You (Harvard Business Review Press) – will discuss practical strategies to help you stay ahead of the curve in your career, take charge of your professional development, and ensure your skills and abilities are fully recognized at work.

You’ll learn how to:
• Discover how you’re currently perceived
• Strategically position yourself for the future
• Leverage your unique strengths
• Powerfully demonstrate the contribution you can make at work