Darius Johnson guides organizations and their senior leaders to engage their diverse stakeholder landscape and unlock the promise of enhanced business results through Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) initiatives. He uses his expertise in change management, communications, employee engagement, organizational capability and leadership enablement to maximize the value organizations can create with strategic DE&I focus. With more than 20 years of global experience spanning over a dozen countries, Darius has a long track record of success across multiple industry sectors, including Telecommunications, Retail, Energy, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Public Sector. He has served as a trusted advisor to numerous senior leaders seeking to engage and empower their people during times of intense change. He has coached leadership teams through strategy creation, trained executives in change management, and led multi functional teams to deliver complex change in many scenarios including carve outs, post merger integrations, process improvement, technology roll outs, HR transformation, culture evolution and strategy refreshes. Darius has also been an active D&I champion and change agent for most of his career, playing an active role in diversity councils, mentoring under represented talent and leading D&I projects. Through strategy development, program implementation, workshop and training facilitation, crisis response and stakeholder engagement he has served as an expert voice on a broad range of D&I topics in the board room and C suite. Darius’ extensive global experience has given him a deep appreciation for multiple dimensions of diversity, above and beyond the traditional group identity dynamics which often drive the discussion.