Dorie Clark (born 1978) is an American author and executive education professor at Columbia UniversityâÂÂs Columbia Business School.
Clark was born in Pinehurst, North Carolina and left high school at age 14 to attend the Program for the Exceptionally Gifted at Mary Baldwin College (now University) in Staunton, Virginia.
Clark transferred to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1997 with a BA in Philosophy. She was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. In 1999, she completed her Master of Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School.
In 2024, Clark married Alexis Redding, a developmental psychologist who teaches at Harvard University.
Clark has guest lectured and taught at universities around the world, including Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; IE Business School in Madrid, Spain; and the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO in Moscow, Russia. She has also spoken at the U.S. Library of Congress.
Clark has been described by the New York Times as an âÂÂexpert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.â She is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Business Insider. She hosts âÂÂBetter,â a weekly video interview program, for Newsweek.
She started her career as a journalist at the alternative newsweekly The Boston Phoenix.
She became the press secretary for former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert ReichâÂÂs unsuccessful 2002 campaign for Massachusetts governor. She later became the New Hampshire Communication Director for Howard DeanâÂÂs 2004 presidential campaign.