Whitney Johnson first appearance in Mauritius

At this workshop, Ms. Johnson will present the case for driving innovation through personal disruption, including an explanation of the S-curve, the psychology of disruption, and an overview of the seven accelerants. By harnessing the power of personal disruption, Ms. Johnson can help participants move from stuck to unstuck and restate value for their organizations where it did not before exist.

About Whitney

Whitney Johnson was recognized as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers in 2015, and was a finalist for the Top thinkers on Talent at the biennial Thinkers50 ceremony in London. She is best known for her work on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption.

She is formerly the co-founder of Rose Park Advisors alongside Clayton Christensen, where they invested in and led the $8 million seed round for Korea’s Coupang, currently valued at $5+ billion. Johnson is also a frequent contributor to and writer for the Harvard Business Review, and is a Linkedinfluencer. She is a prolific speaker on innovation initiatives, and has delivered keynote speeches to audiences of 30,000+ people on her ideas and vision.

She has received widespread recognition for her thinking and was named one of Fortune’s 55 Most Influential Women on Twitter in 2014. She co-founded the popular Forty Women Over Forty to Watch and is a fellow at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards.

Amongst large US based companies, she has worked with Microsoft, SAP, Frito-Lay, Intel, Johnson and Johnson

About this workshop

Whitney will present the case for driving innovation through personal disruption, including an explanation of the S-curve, the psychology of disruption, and an overview of the seven accelerants:

• Taking on market v. competitive risk
• Playing to distinctive strengths
• Embracing constraints
• Battling entitlement
• Stepping back to grow
• Giving failure its due
• Being driven by discovery

By harnessing the power of personal disruption, Whitney can help participants move from stuck to unstuck, and restate value for themselves and their organizations where it did not before exist.

One on One

Whitney is pleased to offer 30 minute individual coaching sessions to follow up on either her keynote or workshop. During these sessions she works 1-1 with selected staff helping them in the disruption process. The client can contract for a block of time and number of staff to participate.