Dorie Clark to Guest on Mariposa Leadership’s Popular Wise Talk Leadership Forum

SAN FRANCISCO - Sept. 1, 2015 - PRLog -- Mariposa Leadership, Inc. is pleased to announce that Dorie Clark, a marketing strategy consultant recognized as a branding expert by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. magazine, professional speaker and author of the new book, Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It, will be a guest on Wise Talk, a popular monthly leadership forum for technology executives, on Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 5pm PT/8pm ET. In an interview with Sue Bethanis, CEO/Founder of Mariposa Leadership, Dorie will share insights from her research on how thought leaders achieved success. Her tips will demystify the process of developing thought leadership and buiding a following so individuals can be better positioned within their companies.

Today’s war for talent is more than companies competing to attract the best and brightest. People are competing to be noticed, both inside organizations and as external candidates. Standing out amongst the competition is critical. Discovering your value and becoming a recognized expert is the key to long-term career stability and success.

As a recognized branding expert, Dorie Clark has built her career by establishing herself as a thought leader. She is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, TIME, Entrepreneur, and the World Economic Forum blog. Recognized as a branding expert by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. magazine, she is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), which has been translated into Russian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Polish, and Thai. Her most recent book, Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It, was released by Portfolio/Penguin in April 2015.

Dorie consults and speaks for a diverse range of clients, including Google, the World Bank, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Yale University, the Mount Sinai Medical Center, and the National Park Service.

A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, Dorie is an adjunct professor of business administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a Visiting Professor for IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. She has taught marketing and communications at Tufts University, Suffolk University, Emerson College, HEC-Paris, Babson College, the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business, and Smith College Executive Education. She has been named to the Huffington Post’s “100 Must Follow on Twitter” list for 2013 and 2014, and to the #Nifty50 list of top women on Twitter. She was also named one of Inc. magazine’s “100 Great Leadership Speakers for Your Next Conference,” and recognized in Forbes as one of “25 Professional Networking Experts to Watch in 2015.”

She has guest lectured at universities including Harvard Business School, the Harvard Kennedy School, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, the University of California-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Georgetown, NYU, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the University of Michigan. Her work has been published in the Harvard Business Review Guide to Getting the Right Job and the Harvard Business Review Guide to Networking, and she is quoted frequently in the worldwide media, including NPR, the BBC, and MSNBC.

For more information on Wise Talk and to sign up to participate in this interactive Forum, visit: http://www.mariposaleadership.com/wise-talk/registration/.

About Mariposa Leadership, Inc.

Mariposa Leadership, an executive leadership coaching firm, has served the Bay Area’s most successful companies in Silicon Valley and the SF Bay Area since 1996. High-tech and other demanding industries leverage Mariposa’s individual and executive team coaching programs to accelerate leadership performance.

Wise Talk is Mariposa’s monthly Leadership Forum hosted by CEO/Founder, Sue Bethanis. With more than 100 sessions recorded to date, Wise Talk’s unique dialogue via teleconference features informative interviews with selected experts from around the world and covers the latest in leadership topics such as strategy, customer experience, employee engagement, design thinking and other cutting-edge leadership content.

For more information, visit:  http://www.mariposaleadership.com/