Dorie Clark

Harvard Business Review

Your personal goals need a long-term strategy. It's no secret that we're pushed to the limit. Today's professionals feel rushed, overwhelmed, and perennially behind. So we keep our heads down, focused on the next thing, and the next, without a moment to breathe. How can we break out of this endless cycle and create the kind of interesting, meaningful lives we all seek? Just as CEOs who optimize for quarterly profits often fail to make the strategic investments necessary for long-term growth, the same is true in our own personal and professional lives. We need to reorient ourselves to see the big picture so we can tap into the power of small changes that, made today, will have an enormous and disproportionate impact on our future success. We need to start playing The Long Game.

Author, The Long Game

I'm the author of Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Revenue Streams, and Thrive, from Harvard Business Review Press. It's a book about how to think more entrepreneurially and prepare yourself for success in the modern economy. Inc. was kind enough to call it "one of the most important books of the year" and Forbes named it one of their Top 5 Business Books of the Year.

Author, Entrepreneurial You

I write frequently for the Harvard Business Review and have contributed well over 200 articles since 2010. My posts and articles are available here: https://hbr.org/search?term=dorie+clark

Contributor

I'm the author of "Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future" ((Harvard Business Review Press, April 2013). Reinventing You talks about personal branding, professional reinvention, and how to take charge of one's reputation in the workplace. It has been translated into Russian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Polish, and Thai.

Author, Reinventing You

Thinkers50

I've been named one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World three times in a row by Thinkers50, which creates a biennial ranking of the world's leading management experts. I was also honored to be named the #1 Communication Coach in the World by the Marshall Goldsmith Coaching Leading Global Coaches Awards.

Top 50 Business Thinker in the World

Fast Company

Write for FastCompany on topics including entrepreneurship and side gigs, effective communication, building political capital, and more.

Columbia Business School

I teach "Building Your Brand as a Leader" as part of Columbia's Advanced Management Program (AMP), as well as to leading corporate clients. I've also taught innovation strategies to senior executives.

Executive Education Faculty

Penguin Books Ltd

I'm the author of "Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It," a book about how to become a recognized expert in your field, gain momentum for your idea or business, and make a greater impact. Stand Out was a Washington Post bestseller and was named the #1 Leadership Book of 2015 by Inc. magazine and one of the Top 10 Business Books of the Year by Forbes. It has also been translated into Korean.

Author, Stand Out

LinkedIn

I've created and taught numerous online courses for Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning, including Personal Effectiveness Tips, Holding Yourself Accountable, Defining and Achieving Professional Goals, Acting Decisively, Interpersonal Communication, Persuading Others, Managing Office Politics, and Professional Networking (the last one has been translated into German, as well!).

Instructor

Westville Capital LLC

Invest in theatrical productions, including:
- The Broadway production of The Inheritance, winner of the 2021 Tony Award for Best Play
- The Broadway production of Tootsie, Spring 2019 (nominated for 11 Tony Awards & winner of two) 
- Magic Mike Live, Australia-New Zealand Tour, 2020-2021
- Magic Mike Live, North American Tour 2022
- The Broadway production of The Lifespan of a Fact (featuring Daniel Radcliffe, Cherry Jones, and Bobby Cannavale) - 2018

Investor

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)

Member of the music publishing company BMI's Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop, the premier training ground for Broadway composers and lyricists. I also participated as a lyricist in the 2019 NYMF (New York Musical Festival) Songwriting Workshop.

Musical Theater Lyricist

HEC Paris

I teach a multi-part webinar series on Personal Branding for HEC-Paris.

Executive Education Instructor

UNC Kenan-Flagler

I've taught Crisis Communication for Kenan-Flagler.

I'm a strategy consultant, executive coach, and keynote speaker (with deep experience in virtual presentations) who has worked with clients including Google, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, Yale University, the IMF, and the World Bank. 

I've been named one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World 3x by Thinkers50, and the #1 Communication Coach in the World by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards, as well as one of the Top 10 Communication Professionals in the World by Global Gurus. 

I write regularly for the Harvard Business Review, FastCompany, and Business Insider, and am the author of several books, including the WSJ bestseller "The Long Game" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021), as well as "Entrepreneurial You," which was named "one of the most important business books of the year" by Inc. magazine and one of the Top 5 Books of the Year by Forbes. 

I also wrote "Reinventing You" and "Stand Out," which Inc. magazine declared the #1 Leadership Book of the Year and Forbes named one of the Top 10 Business Books of the Year. 

The New York Times was kind enough to call me an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.” 

For three years, I hosted a weekly video interview show for Newsweek. I also teach for Columbia Business School's executive education program, and in the past have taught for Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, IE Business School (Spain), HEC-Paris, Smith College Exec. Education, Babson College Exec. Education, and the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler School of Business. I'm a member of Marshall Goldsmith's MG100 program, which brings together the world's top executive coaches, as well as an angel investor and startup advisor. 

Previously, I worked as a journalist, where I was delighted to win two New England Press Association awards; a presidential campaign spokesperson; and a producer of a multiple Grammy-winning jazz album. I also invest in Broadway productions, and am a lyricist in BMI's Tony-Award winning Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop. Download my free Long Game strategic thinking self-assessment at dorieclark.com/thelonggame. 

Specialties: Marketing, branding, management consulting, strategy consulting, communications, speaking, keynote speaking, professional speaking, professional speaker, personal branding, executive coaching

I'm the author of "Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future" ((Harvard Business Review Press, April 2013). Reinventing You talks about personal branding, professional reinvention, and how to take charge of one's reputation in the workplace. It has been translated into Russian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Polish, and Thai. 

I am trying something different this week.

Each day I am highlighting a set of books that I genuinely recommend for professionals who want to grow, lead, and navigate their careers with more clarity.

Today’s theme: visibility at work and how to show up with confidence.
Visibility is not about being loud.

It is about being intentional with how you communicate your strengths and how you participate in the rooms that matter.

Here are three authors and three books I trust on this topic:

Goldie Chan — Personal Branding for Introverts
A thoughtful guide for anyone who finds traditional visibility advice draining or misaligned with their natural style. Goldie shows how to build presence in a way that feels real and sustainable.

Lorraine K. Lee — Unforgettable Presence
A practical roadmap for showing up well on video, in webinars, and in every online setting where impressions count. Lorraine understands digital communication on a deep level and breaks it down clearly.

May Busch — Visible
May rose to senior leadership and now teaches others how to communicate their impact with confidence. Her insights are especially useful for anyone ready to step forward in their role.

If you or someone you know is focused on professional growth this year, these books are an excellent place to start.

WSJ & USA Today Bestselling Author; HBR & Fast Company contributor; Top 50 Business Thinker in World - Thinkers50 & Inc. magazine

Thanks for resharing my talk, TED Conferences! We can all benefit from thinking more critically about what we get out of being so busy - and how to disrupt that cycle.

Feels like you’re always busy? You might be making choices that keep it that way. Here’s how to break the pattern: http://t.ted.com/y9I6NAy

Leadership of Change® (a2B Advisory Consulting)

Peter F. Gallagher is the Global Leadership of Change® Authority and the world’s #1 ranked change management thought leader. Through a2B Advisory Consulting, he advises boards, CEOs, and executive teams on how to transform leadership alignment, accountability, and performance during organisational change.

Peter’s philosophy — “Change waits for no leader. Leadership focuses on human evolutionary change and improvement. Management, by contrast, serves the present. Leadership serves the possible.” — defines his approach to developing leaders who drive sustainable transformation and continuous improvement.

He speaks internationally to corporations and conferences on Leadership of Change®, change leadership alignment, and the evolution of leadership capability. His work integrates practical frameworks, measurable outcomes, and innovative tools such as change management gamification to embed lasting behavioural change.

Keynotes include:
~ Transforming Leadership – From Managing the Present to Serving the Possible
~ Change Leadership: How to Align Leadership Teams to Lead Change
~ 10 Change Leadership Lessons Every Leader SHOULD Know
~ Leadership of Change®: How Gamification Sets Leaders Up for Success
~ Change Management Gamification Leadership Workshop

The leadership reflection Peter challenges teams with:

“Do you understand your change history? Do you have a change vision? Are you aligned on strategic objectives? Are you a high-performing team? Do you have the leadership capability to drive the change and improvement your organisation requires?”

🌐 www.peterfgallagher.com

Leadership of Change® Authority | Keynote Speaker | Author | Advisor to Boards & C-Suites

"Change waits for no leader"

Developing Today's Leaders to Deliver Tomorrow's Change

https://www.a2b.consulting

Our service include:
• Advise C-Suites and executives on change implementation.
• Change leadership team alignment.
• Online change management leader self-paced learning.
• Change Management Gamification workshops.
• Corporate speaking on the Leadership of Change.

o	We advise C-Suites and executives on organisation change management (OCM) implementation, we prepare your leaders to lead their change as well as coach them through implementation. If you have an existing programme and are concerned about employee adoption or benefits realisation, we can perform a programme audit. I lead a2B Advisory Consulting and I am always keen to speak and meet with CEOs, C-suites and leadership teams and about change, change leadership alignment and why we use gamification.

a2B Consulting's mission is to create a brand synonymous with change management expertise in the professional services arena and to become a market leader in delivering organisational change with sustainable benefits.

Our strategic change leadership alignment process develops change leadership capability, so the organisation’s leaders are aligned, as a high performing team, with change leadership skills and knowledge to successfully lead your organisation’s change, transformation or improvement. This change leadership alignment will enable the organisation to accelerate employee change adoption and deliver sustainable long-term benefits.

Please get in touch on +44 75 4147 2955 or email Peter.Gallagher@a2B.consulting.

Leadership of Change C-Suite Adviser and Change Leadership Alignment Coach

Thinkers360

Peter F Gallagher is an award-winning member of the Thinkers360 thought leadership platform. 
He is ranked No. 1 Thought Leader Globally in Change Management both in May 2022, 2021 and 2020. 
He is also ranked No. 1 in Business Strategy and No. 2 in Leadership by Thinkers360. 
For more details, please visit his Thinkers360 profile at https://www.thinkers360.com/tl/PeterFGallagher
https://www.thinkers360.com/tag/change-management-thought-leaders/

Ranked #1 Thought Leader & Influencer on Change Management Globally by Thinkers360 (2025-2020)

Vistage UK

Speaker Workshop 
⧈ Speaking, delivering workshops and coaching to Vistage Groups of CEOs on organisational change leadership implementation and the Leadership of Change: Linking strategic planning, business performance improvement and change implementation to achieve benefits realisation and employee adoption.
⧈ https://vistage.co.uk/speakers/peter-gallagher

Change Management Keynote Speaker and Leadership Coach

Human Health Education and Research Foundation

The Human Health Education and Research Foundation (HHERF) was established in 2020 in London. The concept was developed by a leading group of a multiethnic international leaders at a time of crisis to learn lessons and prepare ahead of time for future challenges. This international group of leaders with extensive experience of dealing with crisis in both health and corporate arenas gathered to form HHERF. They shared a concern about the people on our planet and a determination to increase understanding, options and knowledge of what we can do together to make a difference. 
Websitehttp://www.hherf.org

International Advisory Council Member

Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP Global)

ACMP’s Board of Directors is a volunteer, member-elected role. ACMP’s board consists of member-elected directors who serve three-year terms. Each year, the board elects new members to serve as Board Officers (President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary). The Officers are also referred to as the Executive Committee.

Member Board Of Directors

Proudfoot

Proudfoot is the world leader in implementation and operations consulting. The People Solutions group helps maintain that position by supporting Proudfoot business and operations teams and their clients, focussing on helping people truly navigate change during major transformation and improvement initiatives.

As the Global Head of People Solutions, I lead a team of highly innovative and creative management consultants charged with working with people on solutions that reduce the pain of change and accelerate the process of achieving results; we help you and your people engage and achieving those results. Our engagement's start with leadership strategic alignment workshops and then we begin to build a highly functioning leadership team. Our final workshop uses change management gamification to develop their change leadership and sponsorship skills to set the leadership up for success to lead their change or transformation.

Proudfoot is the pioneer and innovator of People Solutions approaches and change management practices in operational consulting. With continuous investment in products, processes and services, People Solutions is a practice that delivers leading edge methodologies.

Proudfoot:
• Established 1946 – 70+ years legacy of client success
• 611% Overall Client R.O.I. (Actual Rolling 3 month Average)
• 621 Improvement Programs (out of last 1000 engagements worldwide, 621 had specific targeted financial benefits))
• 110% results delivered (financial benefits achieved compared to targeted financial benefits)
• Global Reach

Global Head of People Solutions

JTLimited

Provided appropriate oversight, scrutiny, challenge and direction to the Executive.
Contributed actively to the Board of Directors’ role in giving firm strategic direction to the organisation, setting overall policy, defining goals, setting targets and evaluating performance against the agreed Business Plan (T&F).

Non Executive Director

Working and advising MENA/GCC C-Suites and coaching of leadership teams to execute their strategy.

Director - Strategic Change Execution 

Led and delivered client strategic change, transformation, and improvement programs and teams across MENA.

Executive Manager - Strategic Change and Improvement

Shell International

Developed and deployed strategic transformation, change, and improvement programs to global leadership teams across the Shell Group as well as a troubleshooter on high-value global projects.

Global Strategic Transformational Leader - Organisational Effectiveness

Working with the Upstream European Leadership teams deploying strategic change, transformation, and improvement initiatives:

Senior European Program Transformation Leader

CEO troubleshooter, delivery of strategic change, transformation initiatives and programme management of global procurement programmes and processes.

Global Transformation Program Manager - CEO Corporate Projects

Peter F. Gallagher is a top 7 Global Leadership Guru, the World’s #1 Ranked Change Management Thought Leader, and a 15-time author known internationally for advancing the Leadership of Change® the discipline that transforms leadership from managing the present to serving the possible.
• For over 35 years, Peter has worked in more than 35 countries, advising boards, CEOs, and senior leadership teams from some of the world’s most successful organisations. 
• He helps leaders align, lead, and deliver measurable transformation by embracing their responsibility to articulate the vision, model the new way, and intervene to ensure sustainable change.

Leadership Philosophy:
His philosophy is simple yet provocative: Change waits for no leader. All leadership is about change and improvement. If you are not leading these, you are a manager! Peter’s mission is to redefine leadership as the act of influencing people through vision to embrace change and deliver continuous improvement, a human responsibility that reflects our evolutionary drive to improve and adapt. Leadership is the human expression of our evolutionary arc, a force that shapes possibility rather than preserves comfort. Management serves the present; leadership dares to serve what does not yet exist.

Global Recognition:
• Global Gurus: Top 7 Global Leadership Guru (2025).
• Thinkers360: #1 Global Thought Leader & Influencer on Change Management (2020–2025).
• leadersHum: #1 Change Management Guru to Follow (2022); Top 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership (2022 & 2023).

Qualifications:
• MBA (Distinction), Robert Gordon University.
• One of the global ‘First 500’ Certified Change Management Professionals™ (ACMP®).
• Former ASQ Certified Manager of Quality; held three PMI certifications.

Author (15x):
Peter has written extensively on the Leadership of Change® and authored the Change Management Body of Knowledge (CMBoK) series. His framework explores the complete leadership journey, from vision and leadership to adoption, behaviour change, and sponsorship — alongside his critique of the change profession.

📚 Amazon Author Page:
https://amzn.to/3rxIVjj

Previous Roles & Memberships:
• Former Board Member, Association of Change Management Professionals® (ACMP®) Global & UK.
• Member, Virtual Speakers Association International (VSAI).

Contact Details:
E-mail: peter.gallagher@a2B.consulting
Speaking: https://www.peterfgallagher.com
Consulting: https://www.a2b.consulting

Peter F. Gallagher

Leadership Lessons From NASA’s Mariner 9 Mars Orbiter – Leaders Confront Unforeseen Challenges

🎥 New Leadership Reflection Video FCRQ#172

On November 14, 1971, NASA’s Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet after completing a 167 day journey from Earth to Mars. Arriving during a global dust storm, the spacecraft initially saw only a featureless red haze, yet its mission continued with discipline, patience, and adaptability. As the atmosphere gradually cleared, Mariner 9 revealed unprecedented images of volcanoes, canyons, and ancient riverbeds, transforming scientific understanding of Mars and reshaping future exploration strategies. Its success demonstrated the power of resilience in the face of uncertainty and confirmed that sustained focus can turn unforeseen challenges into breakthrough achievements. The mission became a landmark in interplanetary exploration, proving that persistence combined with informed adjustment drives long term discovery.

🔑 Key Change Leadership Insights:
Change leaders must remain flexible when confronted with unexpected disruptions and adjust their strategies without losing sight of desired outcomes. 

Watch here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eTF-HCeu

#Leadership #ChangeLeadership #OrganisationalChange #LeadershipDevelopment #HistoryLessons #Mariner9

Top 7 Global Leadership Authority | World’s #1 Ranked Change Leadership Thought Leader | 15x Author | Advisor to Boards & C-Suites | Transforming Leadership of Change® From Managing the Present to Serving the Possible

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🎓 FCRQ174 Leadership Learning! On November 28, 2012, the world bid farewell to Zig Ziglar, whose passing marked the conclusion of a remarkable journe

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Friday’s Change Reflection Quote - Leadership of Change® - Change Leaders Serve Future Generations.

Leadership Lessons From Zig Ziglar's Leadership Legacy - Change Leaders Serve Future Generations 
🎥 New Leadership Reflection Video

On November 6, 1926, Hilary Hinton Ziglar was born in Coffee County, Alabama. He would go on to become one of the most influential voices in personal development and performance excellence. Ziglar’s philosophy was never about providing a substitute for leaders ignoring their change responsibilities. Instead, he championed the disciplined pursuit of excellence: cultivating habits, acting with integrity, and improving performance daily. His mindset aligned far more with implementation-centric leadership than with the emotional theatre often associated with motivational speaking. 

🔑  Key Change Leadership Insights: Change leadership requires more than inspiration — it demands intervention. Ziglar’s philosophy reminds us that optimism must be paired with discipline, and that sustainable impact comes from doing good consistently. His legacy reinforces the principle that transformation is built on habit, not hype. 

🔍 Lessons for Change Leaders: Effective change leaders embed values into operational frameworks, develop capable successors, and act with moral purpose. They reject superficial motivation and instead cultivate systems that drive performance. Ziglar’s enduring lesson is that leadership is not about feeling good — it’s about doing good, every day. 

• Full FCRQ174: https://lnkd.in/eNbh2Vpn

 Watch here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eFJ6GXbZ

#Leadership #ChangeLeadership #OrganisationalChange #LeadershipDevelopment #LeadershipLessons #ZigZiglar

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