Todd Johnston
using collaborative design to resolve complexity
Todd works with design as a tool to facilitate dialogue, 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.
Todd is a founding member and the current president of The Value Web, a international association of process and interaction designers focusing on engaging NGO's, social enterprises, foundations, non-profits, governments and multi-sector collaborations.
With Tomorrow Makers, Todd has worked with organizations incuding the World Economic Forum, Presidio School of Management, the Livability Project and the International Society for the Systems Sciences. Currently, Todd is working on three projects with Tomorrow Makers:
- With partner Gail, co-writing a chapter for a forthcoming book on Evolutionary Leadership tentatively titled A Field Guide for Evolutionary Leaders. With more than a dozen contributing authors, the Field Guide will have a wide span of perspective and include both theoritical and practical bodies of knowledge.
- Working with a social investment services firm to help them design investment strategies that can facilitate society through a paradigm shift to a healthier, more equitable and sustainable economy.
- Working with the leadership team of a network of journalists, scientists and communications designers concerning themselves with the global freshwater crisis, to help them design and build an integrated organization of journalism, science, communications design and collective intelligence that takes advantage of 21st century processes and technology.
From 1992 through 2002, Todd worked for MG Taylor Corporation, where he developed his foundational design sense and entreprenuerial spirit. Through MG Taylor, Todd led subsidiary ventures in the retail business services arena as well as publishing (The knOwhere Store and knOwhere Press). The MG Taylor system and method continues to be central to Todd's approach which he has since learned to augment and interplay with a host of other well and lesser-known design processes.
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.
He lives in Los Gatos with wife, Elisa, and their sons, Owen and Connor.
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