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Leann R. Johnson, MS (she/her/hers)

Principal Executive
Innovatus, LLC
VANCOUVER, Washington, United States

Leann Johnson, MS, is currently studying at the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School in the Executive Programme for Strategy and Innovation. She holds a Master of Science in Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology from Capella University (2010), and is an I/O practitioner, system therapist, consultant, coach, facilitator, and instructor.

Ms. Johnson is the Principal Executive for Innovatus, LLC, a consulting firm, where her practice focuses on developing organizational strategy that centers innovation, justice, and care, team facilitation, and storytelling as a tool for individual identity, team, and organizational development.
She has 30 years of experience in executive leadership, organizational transformation, strategy, innovation, operations, social justice, community engagement employee development, coaching, and delivering training in the public, private, higher education, and non-profit sectors.
Ms. Johnson is a longtime social justice and civil rights activist, recently awarded the inaugural Cheryl Boyce Equity Leadership Award from the National Association of State Offices of Minority Health (NASOMH) and The Oregon Health Equity Champion Award from the Oregon Public Health Association (OPHA).

As a speaker and storyteller, Ms. Johnson is well-versed in public speaking. She was voted the best host of the Third Annual NW Black Comedy Festival and has co-written and performed an original, two-woman, experimental play called BlackWoman/WhiteWoman (Johnson & McClure, 2019) at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) in Higher Education in June 2022, November 2022 (virtual conference), and May 2025. She has written on health equity and health reform for publications such as the Willamette Law Review (Summer 2015, Volume 51, Number 4) and Health Reform Policy to Practice, Oregon's Path to a Sustainable Health System (Stock & Goldberg, 2017). Her chapter in Women Therapists on Healing: 11 Personal Essays on Overcoming Trauma is slated for publication in 2026.

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