Todd Johnston, emissary of design
Todd's professional focus is using design as a tool to facilitate learning, collaboration, individual and collective creativity, and emergent, bottom-up solutions. Since the early 1990's, he has worked with and within a variety of organizations, applying his skills to a wide range of concerns in corporate, non-profit, government and community-based settings in the US and Europe.
After several years as an advisor and board member, Todd "officially" joined Gail on the Tomorrow Makers core team in January of 2006, and now brings his design skills to bear on each of the organization's projects and relationships.
From 1992 through 2002, Todd was a Designer with MG Taylor Corporation, where he developed his design and facilitation skills while learning firsthand the power of group genius. Over his tenure, Todd was responsible for a variety of entrepreneurial projects and ventures, including opening and managing the first knOwhere Store, heading up the company's publishing unit, knOwhere Press, and assuming a leading role in the education, training and knowledge transfer of the firm’s patented design and facilitation methodology.
In addition to being partners with Gail in Tomorrow Makers, and having worked closely together at MG Taylor, Todd boasts of the wonderful fortune to be her son.
In between MG Taylor and Tomorrow Makers, Todd spent 18 months as an Associate with The Joseki Group, a privately held business advisory and investment firm in Menlo Park, California.
A Founding Member of The Value Web, Todd holds degrees in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Kansas. He has taught English in Czechoslovakia and traveled far and wide around the world and throughout his native USA. Todd enjoys golf as a "zen-like meditation," manages an Internet radio station to feed his insatiable appetite for music, and takes walks in the wilderness to keep life in perspective. He lives in Menlo Park with his wife, Elisa, and their son, Owen.
