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The Roadmap For Successful Growth With Whitney Johnson

December 28, 2022 • Zachary Ames • Season 1 • Episode 7

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

Connect with Zach & the XYZ Team:

https://www.xyzleadership.xyz/
Instagram - @xyz_lead
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/xyzleadership
Tik-Tok: @xyz_lead
Youtube: Expand Your Zone

Connect with Whitney:

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

People on this episode

Zachary Ames

Host