Whitney Johnson

Whitney Johnson is a leading authority on organizational change, honored with a 2025 ATD Thought Leader Award and named among the top management thinkers globally by Thinkers50 since 2015.

As CEO of Disruption Advisors, her firm works with both high-growth start-ups and Fortune 100 companies to navigate disruption, combining analytical rigor with deep emotional intelligence.

A former Wall Street equity analyst, she co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard's Clayton Christensen, until she discovered she was more interested in the momentum of people than stocks.

Her books Disrupt Yourself, Build an A-Team, and the Wall Street Journal bestseller Smart Growth — along with her Harvard Business Review contributions — have influenced millions.

Her next book, Steady: The Power of Stability in a Disrupted World, arrives April 2027. She has conducted more than four hundred interviews on her Disrupt Yourself podcast and has over 1.6 million LinkedIn followers.

Johnson holds a degree in music and has lived and worked across Latin America. She and her husband have two children and live in Lexington, Virginia, where she works on her tennis forehand and watches K-dramas.