Who Is Doug Johnston

Doug Johnston’s passion is helping professionals and organizations engineer better conversations.

After holding leadership positions ranging from a Fortune 50 company to mid-sized high-growth firms and entrepreneurial startups, Doug struck out on his own in 2002. He’s lived the challenges of rapidly scaling organizations and inevitable market turns firsthand — including managing several hundred geographically distributed employees and remote teams long before it became the norm.

Since founding Impact4Results, he has worked with thousands of professionals across a wide range of industries including manufacturing, government contracting, legal, accounting, insurance, energy, retail, and more. [Click here for a sample of clients] and [Click here for comments from those who’ve worked with him.]

Whether he’s facilitating workshops on communication and leadership topics, speaking to hundreds from a main stage, leading strategy sessions or working one on one with professionals, his clients consistently say Doug engages people quickly and makes the complex simple, applicable, and actionable. He’s equally at home with C-suite leaders at public companies as he is with frontline teams driving results every day.

Doug is a serial author. His business novels — Thriving in Conflict: How to Build a Robust Culture of Feedback and Exponential Leadership: Formulating YOUR Impact — use story to make leadership tools and concepts both memorable and immediately useful. ProBits: Professional Tidbits for Work and Life offers practical wisdom drawn from years in the field. His upcoming most recent work, I Have 3 Friends, marks his debut in literary fiction — a departure in form, but not in spirit, from his lifelong focus on the relationships and conversations that shape us. [Click here for more about his books]