Mar 16, 2022
Are you ready to disrupt yourself? Do you know how to grow
yourself and others in smart ways? Whitney Johnson is an innovation
and disruption theorist, CEO, bestselling author, and globally
recognized thought leader. She is also this week’s Leadership Lab
guest. Whitney joins Patrick to discuss her latest book “Smart
Growth” and explore how the S Curve of Learning can help all of us
to get better.
An award-winning author, Johnson teaches the S Curve of Learning to
managers and companies as both a keynote speaker and a frequent
lecturer for Harvard Business School’s Corporate Learning. She is a
LinkedIn Top Voice (2020) with 1.8 million followers. Her course
Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been viewed more than 1
million times.
An innovation and disruption theorist, Whitney is a frequent
contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management
Review. Author of the bestselling Build an A-Team
Whitney was co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with
Clayton Christensen. Her role included fund formation, strategy,
and capital raising. They invested and led the $8 million seed
round for South Korea’s Coupang e-commerce platform, currently
valued at $50 billion.