If you’re not familiar with the theory of disruptive innovation, you’ve seen it at work: the advent of the personal computer, the rise of Netflix, and other innovations that spring up unobtrusively and ultimately overwhelm industry incumbents. They transform markets. In some cases, they create them.

Whitney Johnson is a leading proponent, a former highly ranked equity analyst who co-founded a boutique investment firm with Clayton Christensen, the father of disruptive innovation. She sits down with Library Director Crosby Kemper III to discuss her new book, Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work, which helps individuals understand how they can apply the philosophy to their own businesses and careers.

Johnson also is a contributor to the book Because You Believed in Me: Contemporary Mentoring Stories, edited by Marcia A. McMullen, which features such fellow luminaries as Warren Buffett, Bill Gates Sr., and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato.