Dorie Clark
Dorie Clark writes books, teaches online and shares practical advice on reinvention, communication and long-term thinking, while also writing musical theater.
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Overview
- From
- A small town in North Carolina
- Work
- Author, speaker, consultant, educator and musical theater writer
- Starting point
- Launched her marketing strategy consulting business in 2006
- First book
- Reinventing You (2013)
- Signature themes
- Personal branding, reinvention and long-term thinking
Mini bio
How it started.
Dorie grew up in a small North Carolina town and left home for college at 14. She graduated from Smith College at 18 and later earned a Master of Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School. Her early work included political reporting, serving as a presidential campaign spokesperson, nonprofit leadership and documentary filmmaking.
Finding her subject.
She launched her marketing strategy consulting business in 2006. Reinventing You, her first book, arrived in 2013, followed by Stand Out in 2015. Those books turned career change and making your ideas heard into central themes of her work. Stand Out was named Inc.’s top leadership book of 2015.
Playing the long game.
Entrepreneurial You followed in 2017, exploring how to build income from your expertise. The Long Game arrived in 2021 with a focus on making space for goals that take time. Alongside her books, Dorie shares advice through courses, newsletters and interviews.
Another kind of writing.
After seeing Fun Home in January 2016, Dorie decided to learn to write musical theater. She trained as a lyricist in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. With composer Marie Incontrera, she wrote Absolute Zero, a musical thriller whose songs were performed at 54 Below in September 2025.
Creditschronological, newest first
Books
- 2021The Long GameAuthor
- 2017Entrepreneurial YouAuthor
- 2015Stand OutAuthor
- 2013Reinventing YouAuthor
Musical theater
- 2025Absolute Zero at 54 BelowBook and lyrics; music by Marie Incontrera
- 2023The Philosopher of LoveWriter, with composer Shoshana Shattenkirk Borve; workshop production in Malmö
Awards
- Thinkers50 ranked thinkerIncluded in the global ranking in 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025.
- Inc. leadership book of the yearStand Out was ranked first in Inc.’s list of the top leadership books of 2015.
- Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches AwardsRecognized as the #1 Communication Coach, as documented by Thinkers50.
Quotes
When you treat failure as feedback, you move from shame to strategy.Dorie Clark, “The Failure That Changed Everything,” LinkedIn, February 27, 2026
From her newsletter on learning from setbacks; linked in the sources below.
Trivia
- Seeing Fun Home in January 2016 inspired her to start learning musical theater writing from scratch.
- Her musical The Philosopher of Love is a contemporary retelling of Plato’s Symposium.
- She films and edits her own Instagram videos, as she explained on Creator Science in October 2026.
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