Speaker

Dorie Clark

Duke & Columbia Business Prof; Ranked #1 Communication Coach; HBR Author; Top 50 Business Thinker in World - Thinkers50

Clark’s 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. She has been a regular commentator on Canada’s CTV and was named one of Inc. magazine’s “100 Great Leadership Speakers for Your Next Conference.”

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.

At age 14, Clark entered Mary Baldwin College’s Program for the Exceptionally Gifted. At 18, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College, and two years later received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School.

Moderator

Charlie Jett, MBA 1972

Certified Career Coach and Career Industry Lead, HBS Club of Chicago

Charles Jett (MBA ’72) is an internationally certified professional career coach (CPCC, ACC, CPQC) specializing in career management, skill development, positive intelligence, and career crises. He is also the Chair of the Career Industry Sector of the HBS Club of Chicago and a former President of the Club. He is an Amazon best-selling author with six books published with three of focusing on career issues; he is an internationally certified professional career coach (CPCC, ACC) specializing in career management, skill development and career crises. Charles spent his business career in management consulting and executive search as well as in the educational services area where he developed best-selling systems for managing work-based learning programs for high schools nationwide.

A graduate of the US Naval Academy, Charles served in the nuclear attack submarine force to build and operate a fast attack nuclear submarine conducting covert operations against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He created the Geographic Plot to covertly trail Soviet submarines and simultaneously created the pre-deployment training programs for the Atlantic and Pacific nuclear submarine fleets. Charles has served as a member of the board of directors for two Grammy Award-winning musical ensembles.