Professional Profile

Dr. Betty Johnson brings 30 years of experience to her leadership and change consulting and coaching work. She partners with leaders to identify and act on their highest-impact opportunities, helping them see what is happening beneath the surface, across team dynamics, organizational systems, and patterns of behavior, so they can make better decisions, align faster, and lead in ways that people respond to positively.

Experience and Expertise

Betty works primarily with leaders in energy, engineering, financial services, healthcare, insurance, professional services, research & development, technology, and non-profit organizations.

Her expertise includes culture-building, leading through complexity, executive presence, influence, strategic relationship building, team effectiveness, and resilience. Her ongoing postdoctoral research focuses on everyday leadership practices that transform individual, team, and organizational performance and well-being.

Betty's corporate career included senior and C-suite positions in the performance improvement consulting industry: Vice President at Omega Performance, Managing Director at Root Learning, Senior Vice President at Roger Schwarz and Associates, and Regional Director at American Management Association. An immersive program at the U.S. Army War College, alongside senior military leaders from the United States, Latin America, and Asia, was a defining influence on her principled approach to leadership.

Education and Credentials include

Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation (ICF)

Ph.D., Leadership and Change, Antioch University

Adjunct Professor, New York University School of Professional Studies, Human Capital Management graduate program, teaching leadership, management, coaching, and research principles and methods

Certified in Hogan Assessments, EQ-i 2.0/EQ 360 (MHS), Leadership Circle Profile, Denison Organizational Culture Survey, CliftonStrengths, and other validated instruments that help leaders build high-performing team cultures

Publications: Workers’ Emotional Exhaustion and Practices for Greater Well-Being (German Journal of Human Resources Management 2023), Making Virtual Work: How to Build Performance and Relationships (Bridging the Difference, 2021), and Video Meetings in a Pandemic Era: Emotional Exhaustion, Stressors and Coping (AURA, 2021).

Management Readiness Profile and Success Profile (MRP®/MSP®), Teamworks-KS, TMA™, and other validated instruments whose data help leaders forge a high-performing team culture

Leadership Philosophy

Leadership is the everyday work of closing the gap between what leaders intend and how people experience them, and when that work is grounded in dignity, both people and performance thrive.

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