Unlock Your Leadership, with Dr Gary Crotaz, PhD

40 Leadership as a Long Game: Dorie Clark on Focus, Reputation and Resilience

Episode Summary

In this episode of Unlock Your Leadership, Dr Gary Crotaz is joined by Dorie Clark — bestselling author of The Long Game, Reinventing You, and Entrepreneurial You, and ranked among the top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50. Dorie shares her wisdom on how to lead, learn and grow in a world obsessed with short-term wins. She and Gary explore what it really means to “play the long game” — developing patience, resilience and clarity of purpose while building a career and life that align with your deepest values. They discuss how to balance ambition with sustainability, why reinvention is an essential leadership skill, and how to stay authentic while continually evolving. It’s a grounded, inspiring conversation about leading with perspective — not just for today, but for the leader you’re becoming tomorrow. Originally recorded for The Unlock Moment podcast.

Episode Notes

In this episode of Unlock Your Leadership, Dr Gary Crotaz is joined by Dorie Clark — bestselling author of The Long Game, Reinventing You, and Entrepreneurial You, and ranked among the top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50.

Dorie shares her wisdom on how to lead, learn and grow in a world obsessed with short-term wins. She and Gary explore what it really means to “play the long game” — developing patience, resilience and clarity of purpose while building a career and life that align with your deepest values.

They discuss how to balance ambition with sustainability, why reinvention is an essential leadership skill, and how to stay authentic while continually evolving.

It’s a grounded, inspiring conversation about leading with perspective — not just for today, but for the leader you’re becoming tomorrow.

Originally recorded for The Unlock Moment podcast.