16th Annual David A. Rothenberger Lecture
Featured Lecture
Disrupt Yourself: The Key to Success in Uncertain Times
How do you deliver results when things are constantly changing? How do you stay relevant when the who, what and how of work has been upended? That's what you'll explore in this session. Whitney Johnson will provide you with a framework for navigating change and supercharging how your team works together so you can deliver results (and stay relevant) no matter the external environment. And it starts with disrupting yourself. As you disrupt your current patterns of thinking, you will become an agent of change, one that can lead your team and your organization into the future.
ABOUT WHITNEY JOHNSON
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. Johnson was named by Thinkers50 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.
ABOUT THE DAVID A. ROTHENBERGER LECTURE SERIES
This lecture series honors the work of Dr. David A. Rothenberger, a physician leader, surgeon, mentor and researcher. He is the former Jay Phillips Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota.
The Rothenberger lecture was established by his Surgery Department colleagues and other community donors. This lectureship was the stimulus to develop a broad physician leadership program, the Emerging Physician Leaders Program (later named the Rothenberger Leadership Academy).