Whitney Johnson, a leading thinker on driving innovation via personal disruption, and a co-founder of Clayton Christensen’s investment firm Rose Park Advisors (Disruptive Innovation Fund), will deliver the 2013 Deioma Lecture on Thursday, March 7 at the Wolstein Research Building. “Putting Innovation in Overdrive: Dare to Disrupt” will begin at 5:00 p.m. with a reception located in the Wolstein Research Building Lobby followed by the lecture and Q&A session in the Wolstein Auditorium from 6:00-7:00 p.m. Click here to register for the event.
Whitney Johnson, a professional investor, and Harvard Business Review blogger, is a highly sought-after keynote speaker and facilitator of workshops and interactive seminars. She creates a stimulating approach to the S-curve as a method for identifying variables that accelerate/decelerate innovation as well as understanding the learning curve of an innovative culture. Johnson’s ultimate goal is to put innovation on over-drive across your organization.
Johnson is a former institutional investor-ranked sell-side analyst on Wall Street, and a TEDx speaker. She is highly recognized on Twitter and was named one of Inc Magazine’s “Twelve People to Follow on Twitter in 2012.” Johnson is the author of “Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream,” a book which guides readers in identifying and achieving their dreams through a three-step model.
The Deioma Lecture is sponsored by the MEM program and is supported by an endowed gift from David Deioma, an alumnus of the Case School of Law who spent his career as an intellectual property lawyer and champion of innovation and entrepreneurship.
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