UVU 2023 Spring Presidential Lecture: Whitney Johnson

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February 16^th, 2023

Whitney Johnson Shares Processes for Growth, Self-Innovation in Presidential Lecture Series

Renowned business thinker, world-class lecturer, and bestselling author Whitney Johnson spoke on learning, growth, and self-innovation as she delivered the spring 2023 Presidential Lecture at Utah Valley University on Feb. 16.

Throughout her remarks, Johnson shared what she calls “the S curve of learning,” a model that outlines three stages of learning: launch point, sweet spot, and mastery.

“Learning is the oxygen of human growth,” she said. “If you stay [at mastery] for too long, your plateau will become a precipice. What do you do? You keep climbing. You jump to a new curve. Slow, fast, slow. This is a model of what growth looks like.”