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Jun 2024
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AEE 2216: Whitney Johnson on How to Navi...

Lindsay Mcmahon And Michelle Kaplan
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Whitney Johnson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Disruption Advisors, a world-class leadership development company that helps organizations operationalize a growth mindset in their leaders and teams. Under Johnson's leadership, Disruption Advisors has been an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company, where they leverage Johnson's powerful S Curve model to give leaders and their people a shared language to create positive change across an organization.


Thinkers50 named Johnson as one of the top 10 leading business thinkers in the world in 2021, a top 200 female founder by Inc. Magazine in 2023, and in 2020 she was a Top Voice on LinkedIn where she has 1.8 million followers.


A co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard's Clayton Christensen, and an award-winning stock analyst on Wall Street, she now applies her understanding of momentum and growth in stocks to people. Whitney is a WSJ, USA Today, and Amazon bestselling author and host of the popular Disrupt Yourself podcast.


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