Award-Winning Business & Leadership Coach, Adjunct Professor, Forbes Contributor and Doctoral Candidate, Jason William Johnson is the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Chicago Urban League. In his role, he develops programming and provides strategic direction for an award-winning program that serves over 500 businesses annually. In FY 2017 the Center’s clients obtained 121 contracts worth $55,991,000 and created 80 new jobs. The Center also provided clients with over 750 hours of one on one counseling and 3943 hours of entrepreneurship training. 

Jason is a doctoral candidate in Organizational Leadership and holds a Masters in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. He is a subject matter expert in personality psychology and the CEO and Co-Founder of Konveau, an app that uses personality type and personal interests to help people connect at social gatherings. Publications such as Chicago Tribune Blue Sky Innovation, Chicago Inno, Technori and South Florida Business Journal have featured Konveau. Jason is also an alum of PowerMoves, the country’s largest accelerator for technology startup founders of color. Before Konveau, Jason founded Identity Engineers, a boutique branding and business strategy firm that operated in the Chicago Loop from 2010-2013.

Jason is a Forbes.com contributor, was selected as one of Chicago Inno’s 50 on Fire for 2017, and a presenter at 2017 New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week. He also served as Educational Advisory Board Secretary for IAEOU, an online entrepreneurship incubator for small business owners in Chicago and Amman, Jordan. Jason was Central Regional Vice President for National Urban League Young Professionals’ (NULYP) from 2015 to 2017 and President of the Metropolitan Board of the Chicago Urban League from 2013 to 2015. In his spare time, Jason meditates twice a day, is an avid reader, and a YouTube junkie. He also enjoys dining, arts and culture, and travel.