About
Dorie Clark
Dorie Clark is a consultant specializing in helping clients increase sales, enhance brand reputation, and move policy issues forward. She is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and the Huffington Post, and is the author of the forthcoming What's Next?: The Art of Reinventing Your Personal Brand (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012). She has consulted for clients including Google, Yale University, the National Park Service, and the Ford Foundation. Previously, she served as the New Hampshire Communications Director for Howard Dean's presidential campaign, and was the Press Secretary for former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich's campaign for Massachusetts governor. She was recognized by the Harvard Business Review for writing one of HBR's 10 most popular blog posts of 2011.
Clark was a staff writer for the Boston Phoenix, covering local politics and policy and winning two New England Press Association awards. She was also a regular contributor to the Boston Globe, Boston magazine, and Commonwealth magazine. She is the former Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, a successful nonprofit environmental advocacy group.
Clark has taught communications, marketing, and media studies at Emerson College, Tufts University, Suffolk University, and Smith College Executive Education. She has also lectured at Harvard University, Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, the University of Michigan, Boston College, Holy Cross College, Lesley University, the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland. She has been quoted by media nationwide, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Slate, CNN, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune.
At age 18, Clark graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College, and two years later received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Clark is a member of the LeadBoston Class of 2009 and the Boston/Haifa (Israel) Leadership Exchange. Clark is currently a member of the Board of Overseers of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Board of Visitors for Fenway Health. She is a past board member of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund and East Somerville Main Streets, and a past advisory board member for the Face Value LGBT research project at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Clark directed the acclaimed environmental documentary film The Work of 1000, and Clark Strategic Communications was named the 2008 Small Business of the Year by the Somerville, Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce.
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