Whitney Johnson is the CEO of Disruption Advisors, a leadership development company. Named by Thinkers50 as one of the ten leading business thinkers in the world, she and her company advise executives across the globe on smart growth leadership: growing your people to grow your company. Whitney is a world class keynote speaker and a popular lecturer for Harvard Business Publishing’s Corporate Learning. She has 1.8 million followers on LinkedIn where she was selected as a Top Voice in 2020. She recently released the course Grow Yourself, Grow Your Leaders on LinkedIn, and her course on Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been viewed more than one million times. In 2022, her company, Disruption Advisors, was honoured by Inc. Magazine 2022 as a Power Partner––a B2B company with a proven track record for helping companies grow. In 2017, she was selected from more than 17,000 candidates for the initial cohort of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches, and was named as the #1 Talent Coach. She is the author of Smart Growth, Build an A Team,, and the critically acclaimed Disrupt Yourself. Integral to her work is the weekly Disrupt Yourself Podcast which has millions of downloads. Guests have included Brené Brown, Steve Young, Susan Cain, and Stephen M.R. Covey. Whitney was the cofounder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen, through which they invested in and led the $8 million seed round for South Korea’s Coupang, currently valued at more than $30 billion. She was involved in fund formation, capital raising and the development of the fund’s strategy.
