Whitney Johnson

<p>Whitney Johnson is the CEO of human capital consultancy Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 2020<br>fastest-growing private company in America. One of the fifty leading business thinkers in the world (#14)<br>as named by Thinkers50, Whitney and her team are expert at helping people grow their people to grow<br>their organization.</p><p>Having worked at Fortune 100 companies, been an award-winning equity analyst on Wall Street,<br>invested with Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, and coached alongside the renowned Marshall Goldsmith,<br>Whitney understands how companies work, how investors think, and how the best coaches coach–––all<br>of which she brings to her work in coaching CEOs and C-Suite executives. Whitney works with high<br>growth venture-backed start-ups and Fortune 100 companies across a variety of sectors including<br>consumer goods, technology, higher education and financial services. In 2017, she was selected from<br>more than 16,000 candidates as a “Top 15 Coach” by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith.</p><p>She is the award-winning author of Disrupt Yourself (Harvard Business Press, 2019), a world-class<br>keynote speaker, and frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School’s Corporate Learning. She is a<br>popular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, has 1.8 million followers on LinkedIn, where she<br>was selected as a Top Voice in 2020, and her course on Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been<br>viewed more than 1 million times.</p><p>Whitney was the cofounder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School’s Clayton<br>Christensen, through which they invested in and led the $8 million seed round for South Korea’s<br>Coupang (NASDAQ: CPNG), currently valued at more than $70 billion. She was involved in fund<br>formation, capital raising, and the development of the fund’s strategy.</p><p>As a former award-winning Wall Street stock analyst, Whitney understands momentum and growth. She<br>was an Institutional Investor–ranked equity research analyst for eight consecutive years, rated