FIR on Higher Education #19 – Dorie Clark on Building a Personal Brand


Probably most all of us want to innovate, grow and develop in different ways throughout our careers. On episode 19 of FIR on Higher Education, I discuss this topic with Dorie Clark, author of Reinventing You, an executive education instructor and a former presidential campaign spokeswoman. Dorie shares the following:

• How academics can build their individual brand and how this leads to new opportunities.
• The new realities of book publishing.
• Keys to developing a content strategy.

Remember the infamous “Dean Scream” – when Presidential candidate Howard Dean yelled too loudly in the microphone and it didn’t make him look so good?  I asked Dorie about what to do when things don’t come out as intended based on her experiences working as a spokeswoman for Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign. Dorie offers advice on what we can do if our messaging goes off the rails.

In our reports section, Harry Hawk provides an update on how his students are creating Vines. You can access their work at Vine using the tag #Mkt2405.

This episode is sponsored in part by Experiential Communications forthcoming Online Media Training Program for Academics.

About Dorie Clark
Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Forbes. A former presidential campaign spokeswoman,Clark teaches or has taught at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, 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. Recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press and Fortune, she is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), which is being translated into Russian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Polish, and Thai. Clark consults and speaks for a diverse range of clients, including Google, the World Bank, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, the Ford Foundation, Yale University, the Mount Sinai Medical Center, and the National Park Service. 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. Learn more.

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Kevin AnselmoKevin Anselmo is the Founder and Principal of Experiential Communications, a consultancy focused on education. He helps brands within academia - whether individual or corporate - communicate with stakeholders. He also teaches communications and public relations workshops to different individuals and groups and is currently designing an online media training program for academics.

Previously, Kevin was Director of Public Relations for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and prior to that managed the media relations for IMD Business School in Switzerland. In addition, he was an adjunct communications professor at Nyack College in New York.

Currently based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Kevin lived and worked in Switzerland for eight years and in Germany for two years. He has led public relations initiatives in various countries around the world.

Find Kevin on Twitter: @kevinanselmo.

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