The Next Step: Lessons on Embracing Change and Continuous Improvement

Whitney Johnson

CEO at human capital consultancy WLJ Advisors

as recording during on 24 June 2021 as part of Innov8rs Connect Unconference.


We didn’t make a conscious choice to disrupt our lives; circumstances made it for us. Life has suddenly and unexpectedly been disrupted for everyone. While this certainly was true in the pandemic, it can happen anytime. We didn’t make a conscious choice to disrupt our lives; circumstances made it for us.

You can actually learn to leverage disruption and build momentum along your S Curve of Learning™ by leveraging the Seven-point Personal Disruption Framework™. You'll feel confident and move toward continuous improvement rather than succumbing to the chaos of change. As innovation leaders, this is of crucial importance - not just to be effective in our roles but also just to stay sane.

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About the speaker

Whitney Johnson is the CEO of human capital consultancy WLJ Advisors, an Inc. 5000 2020 fastest-growing private company in America. One of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world (#14) as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at helping high-growth organizations develop high-growth individuals.

Having worked at Fortune 100 companies, been an award-winning equity analyst on Wall Street, invested with Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, and coached alongside the renowned Marshall Goldsmith, Whitney understands how companies work, how investors think, and how the best coaches coach–––all of which she brings to her work in coaching CEOs and C-Suite executives.

Whitney works with high growth venture-backed start-ups and Fortune 100 companies across a variety of sectors including consumer goods, technology, higher education and financial services.

She is an award-winning author, world-class keynote speaker, and frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School's Corporate Learning. She is a popular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, has 1.8 million followers on LinkedIn, where she was selected as a Top Voice in 2018, and her course on Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been viewed more than 1 million times.