In this episode of Expand Your Zone, host Zachary Ames chats with the wonderful Whitney Johnson. Whitney Johnson is the CEO of Disruption Advisors, a tech-enabled talent development company. She was named a 2021 Top #10 Business Thinkers by Thinkers50, and is a globally recognized thought-leader, keynote speaker, executive coach, and consultant. Whitney is the WSJ, USA Today and Amazon bestselling author of Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company (Harvard Business Press, 2022).

Zachary and Whitney dive into her book Smart Growth and the idea of the S-Curve. She also shares her three big “aha moments” about the momentum of people, disruption, and growth - and how you can use the S-Curve to understand how groups and individuals change.

Topics:

• S-curve
• Goal Setting
• Growth

Shoutouts

• Smart Growth
• Disrupt Yourself Podcast
• Jim Barno
• Clayton Christensen
• Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
• Disrupt Yourself Article
• Everett Rogers
• Liar’s Poker
• Scott O’Neil
• Brittany Boyd
• Donna Daniels
• Yang Xu
• BJ Fogg
• James Clear
• Ryan Westwood
• Warren Buffet
• Laura Gassner Otting
• Forefront
• Amy Humble

Companies Mentioned

• Disruption Advisors
• Kraft Heinz

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• https://www.xyzleadership.xyz/
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Connect with Whitney:

• Instagram: @johnsonwhitney @disruptyourself_podcast
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitneyjohnson/