Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Hardvard 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. Her most recent book, Stand Out was named the #1 Leadership Book of 2015 by Inc. magazine, Clark 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.

Clark, a former presidential campaign spokeswoman, 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.

Tanvi Gautam
Diversity and Inclusion
Programme Director
SMU-ExD

Dr. Tanvi Gautam, Founder leadershift Inc works with firms across the globe to create more authentic, engaged and inclusive leaders and work cultures. She is on the board of ARTDO (international) and an invited member to the elite leadership think tank of Corporate Executive Board (The leadership transition institute - USA). Her list of clients include firms like Microsoft, Exxon, Dell, Medtronics, TNT, Accenture, Verizon among others.

Dr. Tanvi is a recipient of the Game Changer 2014 award by Workforce Magazine (USA), the change leaders of tomorrow award by the Asian Thought leadership conference, as well as recognized as Top 10 HR influencers on Social media by SHRM-I.  Recognized as one of the women HR leaders to reckon with by the Business manager magazine her views on creating the workplace of tomorrow have been quoted and published by international forums such as Harvard Business Review, Forbes.com, Business Times and Economic Times.

She is one of less than one hundred certified story coaches worldwide using this powerful medium for transformational leadership.  Dr. Tanvi also acts as an executive coach to leadership teams . She is a faculty with the business school & program director with SMU Executive Development helping create & deliver high impact programs for future ready leaders. She is the founder of the WISER network.