Gorick is a career advisor at Harvard College, specializing in coaching first-generation, low-income students. He is also a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley where he teaches the unspoken rules of career navigation.
He is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right, published by Harvard Business Review Press and named by Thinkers50 as one of the top 10 management books of 2022. He is also the creator of How to Say It, a flashcard series on what to say in every professional situation.
Gorick has worked in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group, investment banking at Credit Suisse and research with the Managing the Future of Work project at Harvard Business School.
He has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, The New York Post, Fast Company and Fortune Magazine, and on The Today Show and CNBC.
He was named by Thinkers50 as one of 30 thinkers to watch in 2022. He is a regular speaker at some of the world’s largest companies, from GE to IBM to Google. Gorick, a first-generation college student, is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
Each week, he publishes Did You Know?, a newsletter that reverse-engineers how famous people and companies became successful—and what you can do to follow in their footsteps.
