Interview with Whitney Johnson
As a world authority on personal disruption, Whitney Johnson understands how to optimize individual growth and innovation.
She is an award-winning author, world-class keynote speaker, frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School’s Corporate Learning, an executive coach and advisor to CEOs, and a popular contributor for the Harvard Business Review.
In this interview, Whitney shares how to negotiate well as a woman in corporate, the exciting changes she foresees in the corporate landscape, and how the S Curve model helps explain changes you go through as you disrupt yourself and begin on a new path.
You may also know Whitney from her Disrupt Yourself podcast in which she has interviewed thought leaders like Brene’ Brown, Adam Grant, James Clear, Dave Hollis, Simon Sinek, and many more.
Key Takeaways:
How to negotiate well as a woman in corporate
Exciting changes to the corporate landscape
How the S Curve helps us understand how we grow and learn as individuals
How relationships are impacted based on the functional and emotional roles we play
Importance of having a sponsor for advancement
Episode Resources:
The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership by Sally Helgesen
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development by Carol Gilligan
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You by Heidi Grant
Disrupt Yourself Podcast Episode 120: Play to Your Distinctive Strengths
Disrupt Yourself Podcast Episode 130: CV Harquail: Play to Your Distinctive Strengths
“Women Need to Realize Work Isn’t School” by Whitney Johnson and Tara Mohr