Whitney Johnson

Author, speaker and disruptive innovation theorist Whitney Johnson is a world-renowned expert in developing high-growth individuals and organisations. She is the writer of three acclaimed books, is the co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund, and hosts the popular podcast Disrupt Yourself. She was named by Thinkers50 as one of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world, and in 2019 was ranked third in Global Gurus’ Top 30 Organizational Culture Professionals.
Johnson’s background was on Wall Street, where she was an Institutional Investor-ranked equity research analyst for eight years running, and was rated as a superior stock-picker by Starmine. Today, she is one of the world’s foremost business thinkers, and is the co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Found, which led the seed round for leading South Korean e-commerce company Coupang. She is CEO of boutique consultancy WLJ Advisors, and her many high-profile clients across different industries have included KraftHeinz, National Governors Association, Citizens Bank and Brigham Young University.
Johnson’s influence is felt far and wide, with over 1.7 million followers on LinkedIn, a popular weekly newsletter, and thousands of readers for her writing in the Harvard Business Review. On her long-running Disrupt Yourself podcast, Johnson inspires yet more people, sharing her knowledge and talking with disruptors from all works of life. Her books include the critically-acclaimed Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work, and the bestselling Build an ‘A’ Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve, which was a Financial Times Book of the Month.