AEE 2216: Whitney Johnson on How to Navigate Change in Your International Life
Jun 12, 2024
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Whitney Johnson, CEO of Disruption Advisors, shares insights on navigating change in international life. Discusses disrupting oneself for personal growth, using the escarp framework for growth abroad, and embracing uncomfortable predictions. Episode wraps up with gratitude and promotions.
Disrupting oneself is essential for personal growth and navigating challenges in international life.
Embracing discomfort and trying new things fosters progress, confidence, and happiness.
Deep dives
Disrupting Yourself to Spark Personal Growth
Disrupting yourself is about self-innovation and building new neural pathways. People, not organizations, drive progress by being willing to disrupt themselves. Change, whether chosen or forced, is crucial for personal growth and navigating challenges like living abroad.
The Escarp Framework and Navigating Life Abroad
The Escarp Framework illustrates growth stages: Launch Point, Sweet Spot, and Mastery. Initially, inaccurate predictions may lead to discomfort and slow progress. Moving to the Sweet Spot brings accuracy in predictions, emotional highs, and rapid growth. At Mastery, the focus shifts to maintaining comfort while slowly growing.
Embracing Discomfort for Personal Development
Sticking with discomfort leads to growth and confidence. Being uncomfortable, even as an imposter, signifies growth and vitality. Cultivating the habit of trying new things fosters progress and happiness, challenging the tendency to shy away from unfamiliar experiences.
Whitney Johnson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Disruption Advisors, a world-class leadership development company that helps organizations operationalize a growth mindset in their leaders and teams. Under Johnson's leadership, Disruption Advisors has been an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company, where they leverage Johnson's powerful S Curve model to give leaders and their people a shared language to create positive change across an organization.
Thinkers50 named Johnson as one of the top 10 leading business thinkers in the world in 2021, a top 200 female founder by Inc. Magazine in 2023, and in 2020 she was a Top Voice on LinkedIn where she has 1.8 million followers.
A co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard's Clayton Christensen, and an award-winning stock analyst on Wall Street, she now applies her understanding of momentum and growth in stocks to people. Whitney is a WSJ, USA Today, and Amazon bestselling author and host of the popular Disrupt Yourself podcast.