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Disruption Advisors activates engagement and growth in leaders, teams, and organizations.

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Whitney Johnson

CEO, CO-Founder

Whitney Johnson is the CEO of Disruption Advisors, a tech-enabled growth and change management consultancy. She was named a 2021 Top #10 Business Thinker by Thinkers50, and is a globally recognized thought-leader, keynote speaker, executive coach, and consultant.

A LinkedIn Top Voice since 2019 with 1.7 million followers, 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).

Whitney Johnson, CEO and Co-Founder of Disruption Advisors, is a world-class coach globally recognized thought leader, author, keynote speaker, and consultant helping organizations operationalize a high-growth mindset in their leaders and teams. 

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). She shares her passion for personal disruption, helping individuals transform their lives, careers, teams, and companies through her keynote addresses; her popular podcast Disrupt Yourself; lectures at Harvard Business School’s Corporate Learning; the award-winning books How to Build an A Team, Disrupt Yourself, and Dare, Dream, Do; and frequent article contributions to the Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. Whitney is ranked a top talent coach by Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches, recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the top 10 leading business thinkers in the world, and named Inc.’s 200 Female Founders of 2023. She is co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen, and a former award-winning stock analyst on Wall Street, Whitney Johnson now applies her understanding of momentum and growth in stocks to people.

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Amy Humble

President, CO-Founder

Amy Humble is the co-founder and president of Disruption Advisors, an Inc 5000 fastest growing company. She is a perceptive, visionary, and highly engaging executive and coach working with the world’s most elite leaders and organizations from the FORTUNE 500, Inc. 5000, and leading social institutions in the world. Previously, Amy served as chief of staff for Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and was the creator of the Innovators Society, the first of its kind social sector accelerator program.

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Amy Humble

President, Co-Founder

Amy Humble is the co-founder and president of Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 fastest growing company. Named one of Inc.’s 200 Female Founders of 2023, she is a perceptive, visionary, and highly engaging executive and coach working with the world’s most elite leaders and organizations from the FORTUNE 500, Inc. 5000, and leading social institutions in the world.  Previously, Amy served as chief of staff for Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and was the creator of the Innovators Society, the first of its kind social sector accelerator program.

2022

Published WSJ, USA Today and Amazon bestselling book Smart Growth

2020

Launched S Curve of Learning Insight Tool (10K+ Users)

2020

Recognized as an Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company

2019

Relaunched Disrupt Yourself

2019

Launched coaching network

2017

Named Top 10 Management Thinker by Thinkers50

2017

Designed the first model of the S Curve locator

2016

Launched the popular podcast, Disrupt Yourself, now in the top 1% globally of monthly downloads.

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Amy Humble

Designer of accelerator program, Innovators Society
Founder and CEO of White River Strategy
Chief of Staff for Jim Collins, author of Good to Great

Whitney Johnson

Co-founder of Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen
Award-winning Wall Street equity analyst
Author of the groundbreaking Disrupt Yourself in Harvard Business Review

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Becky Hofkes

Director of Strategy & Innovation

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Chelsea Smith

Director of Operations

 

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Devanie Hopfenbeck

Director of Products & Services

 

Erin Kerr

Project Manager

 

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Kaitlin Johnson

Senior Project Manager

 

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Kurt Wilson

Senior Advisor, Diagnostics

 

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Linda Elliott

Coaching & Assessment Manager

 

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Lori Wilson

Senior Consultant, Program Engagement

 

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Mike Quinn

Lead Coach & Facilitator

 

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Natalie Murray

Senior Advisor, Learning and Curriculum

 

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Nicole Pellegrino

Executive Assistant

 

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Stephanie Brummel

Executive Assistant & Marketing Associate

 

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Mike Quinn

Lead Coach & Facilitator

 

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Natalie Murray

Senior Advisor, Learning and Curriculum

 

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Nicole Pellegrino

Executive Assistant

 

Robin Grossman

Client Relationship Manager

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Steve Ludwig

Lead Coach & Facilitator

 

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