Whitney Johnson - The Challenges Facing People In Business Today

Whitney Johnson - The Challenges Facing People In Business Today
27 January, 2020

The EMEA Recruitment podcast welcomes Whitney Johnson as their latest guest. 

Whitney Johnson is the CEO of boutique consultancy WLJ Advisors and one of the fifty leading business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50 - an expert on helping high-growth organizations develop high-growth individuals.

In this episode, she covers the main two challenges that she sees people face in business today, which of her books is her favourite and why and also what is next for her in terms of her path of success and also her travel plans.

 

Listen to the full episode here: 

 

 

Or at:

http://emearecruitment.libsyn.com/033-whitney-johnson-ceo-and-leading-business-thinker

 

  • Whitney's award win in London and Thinkers50: 1m21
  • Whitney's journey and what has led her to where she is today: 2m02
  • How you are shaped by the people and environment around you: 6m25
  • The main two challenges that people in business are facing these days: 8m11
  • The topics that Whitney is asked to speak about most often: 11m50
  • What prompted Whitney to start writing: 16m00
  • Which is her favourite book she's written and why: 18m54
  • Whether Whitney had any fear around putting herself out there and her personal brand: 21m35
  • Her views on whether universities degrees and the debt that creates are still a valuable process: 25m25
  • What is next for Whitney in her career: 27m53
  • How bringing in people who are better than you into your company can be a great idea: 29m55
  • How often CEO coaching calls can end up being life coaching calls: 31m05
  • The people who stand out as main influences for Whitney: 31m43
  • The books that Whitney would recommend: 33m17
  • The one place that Whitney would visit next: 34m33

 

The EMEA Recruitment Podcast with Paul Toms and Jenny Callum will take you through every aspect of recruitment. Looking at both sides of the process, Paul and Jenny will be offering career-changing advice to the job-seeker and essential exposure to recruitment ‘best practice’ for the hiring employer, giving each party an insight and understanding into the perspective of the other.

 

This podcast is brought to you by EMEA - At EMEA Recruitment we are specialists in Finance, BI & Data, HR, Procurement, Supply Chain and Operations Recruitment at Middle-Management to Executive levels across Switzerland, The Netherlands and the wider EMEA & US region. With offices in Zug, Amsterdam and Nottingham our consultants are well networked and can offer knowledgeable advice within these regions.

If you want to reach out to Whitney, you can connect with her through LinkedIn on https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitneyjohnson/

 

The podcast is hosted by founder of EMEA; Paul Toms and Executive Recruiter and Recruitment Marketing Specialist; Jenny Callum.

To find out more about EMEA recruitment visit https://www.emearecruitment.com/, follow EMEA Recruitment on LinkedIn or connect with Paul on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/paultomsemea/ or Jenny at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennycallumemea/.