Whitney Johnson: A Strong Sequel for the Real Life Working Girl

Whitney Johnson, founding partner of Rose Park Advisors asks us to do one thing: Disrupt ourselves. After a period of “reassessing and recalibrating,” Johnson began applying her financial expertise in a creative capacity. Teaching us never to be afraid to take risks, Johnson truly embraces all things innovative. She doesn't paint a magical picture of disruption, she remarks it's hard, lonely and sometimes you feel a little crazy! 

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Raphael Louis Vitón

Viva "la Whitney"!

Thu, 11/24/2011 - 09:31

Whitney Johnson

Whitney Johnson dared to disrupt herself when she began her Wall Street career as a secretary, eventually rising to become an Institutional Investor-ranked sell-side equity analyst. She is currently a regular contributor at Harvard Business Review, the President of Clayton Christensen’s investment firm Rose Park Advisors’ Disruptive Innovation Fund, and is the author of the forthcoming, DARE-DREAM-DO: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream (Bibliomotion, May 2012). When Whitney's not picking stocks, she invests in people, concepts and dreams at daretodream.typepad.com. She is married to Roger Johnson, and they are the parents of two children.

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