Disrupting Yourself

In this course, Whitney Johnson—the CEO and co-founder of Disruption Advisors—explores the art of self-disruption to drive personal and career advancement. Learn to leverage disruptive innovation and identify opportunities for taking strategic risks. Discover how to play to your distinctive strengths and use constraints to spark creativity. Examine and adjust expectations to align with new opportunities using the S curve model, and learn to use failure as a stepping stone to success. Gain insights into emergent strategies to stay adaptable and innovate continuously. This course is suited for professionals encountering mid-career stagnation or facing industry disruptions due to AI and tech shifts, as well as high achievers seeking resilience in their career paths. This course offers you actionable strategies to turn disruption into competitive advantage, as well as a clear roadmap for continuous learning, strategic risk-taking, and building a resilient, adaptable career.

Learning objectives
Analyze disruptive innovation patterns in your industry and apply strategic risk-taking to identify and pursue unmet market opportunities rather than competing in saturated spaces.
Evaluate your distinctive strengths and implement strategies to leverage your unique combination of skills, experiences, and perspectives as competitive advantages in an AI-driven workplace.
Create strategic constraints and design emergent career strategies that allow you to adapt quickly to changing circumstances while maintaining focus on your core values and objectives.
Assess your current expectations and limiting beliefs, then formulate action plans to navigate career transitions, setbacks, and disruptions with resilience and growth-oriented thinking.
Execute tactical career moves including lateral transitions, strategic step-backs, and