JD Johnson, MBA, ADKAR, ACC, DBA Candidate

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States17 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Founder of J² Elevate Consulting with 20+ years of experience.
  • Expert in leadership development and emotional intelligence frameworks.
  • Designed innovative coaching programs and podcasts for leaders.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Leadership Development Consultant specializing in emotional intelligence and change management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Leadership DevelopmentCoachingChange ManagementProject ManagementProcess ImprovementStrategy DevelopmentMarketingCustomer Experience ManagementData AnalysisQuality Management

Other Skills

ConsultingTrainingStrategic PlanningExecutive CoachingCareer Development CoachingInitiativeBusiness RelationsProgram ManagementIT Project & Program ManagementBusiness AcumenProject Stakeholder ManagementProject PlanningGoogle SheetsRisk ManagementGoogle Docs

About

After working under 30+ different managers, I saw a frustrating pattern: people were being promoted for their technical skills but were never taught how to lead. The result? Declining morale, frustrated teams, and overwhelmed new managers who were great at their last job but struggling in their new one. In each of those roles, I became the informal leader my colleagues turned to for advice on how to manage up and navigate difficult team dynamics. I learned that true leadership is built on influence, not authority. That's when I decided to turn my passion for solving these people-centric problems into my profession. At J² Elevate Consulting, we fix this broken system from the inside out.I've turned my 20+ years of work experience including project, program and change management into a practical, data-driven framework to equip leaders with the emotional intelligence skills they've never been taught. We help organizations: ✅ Transition high-performing individual contributors into confident, effective people leaders. ✅ Develop the people-centric side of leadership with transformational emotional intelligence skills. ✅ Build a culture of psychological safety where teams feel empowered and engaged. My expertise includes: 🔹 Leadership Development & Coaching (ICF ACC Credential, PCSI & Coaching Business Teams - CoachU) 🔹 Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Frameworks 🔹 Change Management (Prosci ADKAR Certified) 🔹 Team Cohesion & Performance 🔹 Project & Program Management (MBA, Project Management Certification - Seneca Polytechnic) This work is more than a business; it’s a mission to operationalize empathy and ensure no one's potential is wasted under a leader who wasn't set up for success. It's about "Fixin' Crowns" and building bigger tables for everyone. Ready to equip your new leaders for success? 📧 Email me: jd.johnson@jsquaredelevateconsulting.com 🎙️ Listen to the Podcast: https://j2elevateconsulting.com/FYCB-Podcast-Central-Hub 👉Explore Programs: https://j2elevateconsulting.com/Programs-and-Investments

Experience

17 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Jsquared elevate consulting

Founder

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Remote

  • As Founder, I wear many hats: I'm the visionary charting our course, the strategist designing our unique frameworks, and the advocate for a new paradigm in leadership development. I'm deeply involved in curriculum design, ensuring our tools genuinely equip managers to inspire, develop, and empower their teams. My role is to not only define what we do, but how we empower leaders to create truly thriving workplaces.
  • At J² Elevate Consulting, our purpose is clear: to fundamentally improve the world of work. We cultivate self-aware leaders and attuned organizations, revolutionizing performance management and professional development. It's about creating a win-win-win for businesses, managers, and employees.
  • Key Achievement: Successfully designed and validated the "Ascend and Thrive" coaching program through a pilot, proving the framework's effectiveness in a real-world setting.
  • Key Achievement: Designed and launched the "Fixin' Your Crown, Boo" podcast, featuring leaders in vaarious sectors including tech, legal and insurance to share stories of resilient and emotionally intelligent leadership.
  • Key Achievement: Currently developing a tech-enabled platform to scale our proprietary framework and impact thousands of leaders globally.
ConsultingTrainingStrategic PlanningExecutive CoachingCareer Development CoachingLeadership Development+1

Propeller

Consultant

Sep 2017Aug 2024 · 6 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Propeller is a management consulting firm.
  • Management Consultant - Sr. Privacy Program Manager for a Large Global Hospitality Technology Company: Led the program via management and coordination of workstream activities across multiple teams through the ecosystem discovery and metadata tool proposal creation project phases.
  • Management Consultant - Project Manager for leading global apparel company. Supported Global Head of Privacy in facilitating client, business, and technical system owners through discovery phase the and transition to implementation of record retention strategy process.
  • Management Consultant - Change Project Lead for a Multinational Creative and Digital Marketing software company: Led a cross-functional team through the change management strategy, planning, implementation and close out of several large site moves impacting more than 3,500 employees across San Francisco, San Jose, and Seattle.
  • Management Consultant - Business System Analyst for a Global Apparel's internal technical business unit: partnered to document and become the subject matter expert of a brand new internally built complex point of sale system.
  • Management Consultant - Project Manager for a Global Apparel's Change Management Office: Managed tracking of project deliverables to ensure completion accountability and worked with worked with change management team to facilitate prioritization workshops to land change and process decisions.
  • Management Consultant - Project Manager for a Global Apparel's Change Management Office:
  • Directed revamp of project plan using best practices to create visibility to project progress in addition to building robust tracking and reporting. Managed tracking of change management related or dependent project deliverables to ensure completion accountability and led multiple weekly project meetings between various stakeholder groups to improve collaboration, transparency, and risk management on project milestones.
InitiativeBusiness RelationsProgram ManagementIT Project & Program ManagementBusiness AcumenProject Stakeholder Management+36

Health plan of san mateo (hpsm)

Project Specialist II

Dec 2016Sep 2017 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Local, non-profit County Organized Health System (COHS) that manages medical and support services for Medi-Cal eligible residents and other vulnerable populations.
  • Consult with internal departments on business requirements for strategic projects
  • Create work flows and implement process improvement initiatives
  • Manage interdepartmental projects from initiation to implementation
InitiativeBusiness RelationsIT Project & Program ManagementBusiness AcumenProject Stakeholder ManagementProject Planning+25

Tloe

Project Management Consultant

Sep 2016Sep 2017 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Freelance Project Management Consultant for a startup based on coaching and mentoring services.
  • Creating, maintaining and implementing project plans.
  • Building process flows.
  • Developing product requirement documentation.
InitiativeBusiness RelationsIT Project & Program ManagementBusiness AcumenProject Stakeholder ManagementProject Planning+14

Ixl center - center for innovation, excellence and leadership

Strategy Consultant Internship

Jun 2016Feb 2017 · 8 mos · London, United Kingdom, New York, United States

  • Consulting challenge to develop a long term strategy for creating innovative solutions to improve product position for a client in the in home cleaning market.
  • Managed a virtual team to deliver 3 client presentations.
  • Researched and developed 5 areas for future product innovation in new markets..
  • Built and presented business case for a 3 stage implementation plan for a new product line to client executives.
InitiativeBusiness RelationsIT Project & Program ManagementBusiness AcumenProject Stakeholder ManagementProject Planning+13

Morrison lamothe inc.

Marketing Project Coordinator/ Manager

Oct 2013Feb 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

  • Supervised new product launches and package transitions. Designed social media and content strategy.
  • Spearheaded RFP for redesign of firm’s website. Vetted responses from 10 vendors.
  • Selected finalist.
  • Managed FDA, CFIA & client regulatory requirements to transition to new packaging formats for 3 products.
  • Developed timeline and led cross-functional team to completion of 4 projects worth more $10 million on time.
  • Created content for websites, brochures and client presentations.
  • Managed communications with stakeholders and clients (McDonald’s, M&M Meat Shops,
  • Aldi Supermarkets, McCain’s)
  • Project Management | Marketing | Research | Data Analysis | Forecasting | Digital Media | Management | Google Analytics| Process Improvement I Social Media I Microsoft Office I Leadership I Research I Change Management I Social Media I
InitiativeBusiness RelationsIT Project & Program ManagementBusiness AcumenProject Stakeholder ManagementProject Planning+22

Empathica

Customer Experience Project Administrator

Jun 2012Sep 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Communicated with 3 external client teams on a daily basis. Analyzed program results.
  • Migrated data and reported results in presentation format for clients (Popeye’s, Canadian Tire
  • & Delta Hotels).
Business RelationsProject Stakeholder ManagementMicrosoft WordCommunicationCustomer LoyaltyEnglish+1

Bell canada

3 roles

Project Analyst

Apr 2010Jun 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Supported a team of 12 Project Managers.
  • Monitored tasks against deadlines, identified risks, and supervised close-out of 5 projects.
  • Created an incentive program for Project Managers and led implementation.
Business RelationsIT Project & Program ManagementBusiness AcumenProject Stakeholder ManagementProject PlanningData Analysis+14

Data Analyst

Mar 2007Mar 2010 · 3 yrs

  • Analyzed large sets of data to determine customer behavior patterns and gaps in call center procedures. Developed daily and weekly management reports.
  • Identified gap in relationship between 200+ call center agents and support teams. Devised project plan to initiate a deeper understanding of roles provided by 10+ support teams.
  • Identified gap in first call resolution process and prepared project proposal to improve process.
  • Built dashboards for managers and project sponsors for easy review of key performance indicators.
Business RelationsBusiness AcumenProject Stakeholder ManagementProject PlanningData AnalysisStakeholder Management+6

Quality Coordinator

Aug 2004Mar 2007 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Trained 20+ call center managers, 3 executive and over 200 agents on company customer experience standards.
  • Redesigned manager’s customer experience coaching program and improved performance by 20%.
  • Performed audit on agent performance report and increased user experience.
  • Implemented call monitoring software across team of 200+ agents, 20+ managers and 3 executives.
  • Created and delivered training materials to staff to communicate and help understand changes.
Business RelationsProject Stakeholder ManagementMicrosoft WordCustomer LoyaltyEnglishQuality Management

Education

BSB - Burgundy School of Business

Doctor's Degree

Jan 2026Dec 2028

Hult International Business School

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Jan 2015Jan 2016

Seneca Polytechnic

Professional Certificates

Jan 2011Jan 2011

York University

Bachelor of Arts — History

Jan 1997Jan 2003

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