Men To Watch 2025 honoree Kevin Wayne Johnson

Because, he says, "God uses ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things," Kevin Wayne Johnson has taken up the task of  developing individual and organizational operating excellence as his life's ministry. He trains, equips, develops, mentors and coaches in order to coax audiences to live out their gifts, and in the words of his national best-selling book series, to then "Give God the Glory!" This series of eight books earned the current radio/podcast and former television co-host some 19 literary awards. Gayle King, an editor-at-large for 0, The Oprah Magazine, praised his work, writing to him that "Your book, Kevin, touched me." 

Johnson is the Founder and CEO of The Johnson Leadership Group, LLC, and an independent certified coach, trainer, mentor and speaker with the Maxwell Certified Leadership Team, where he leads learning experiences that are tailored to meet the specific needs of the audience to help maximize efficiency, growth, awareness and effectiveness. He provides organizations, and the people who work within them, with the tools to forge effective personal and interpersonal communication and delivers training on the elements of dynamic relationships, to equip teams with the attitudes and attributes needed to develop individuals into leaders. He does so through motivating workshops, seminars, insightful keynote speeches and compassionate coaching - all to encourage personal and professional growth. 

Johnson enjoyed a 34-year career (retired) in government and private industry as a frontline, mid-level and senior-level leader. He led workforce development, training, organizational change, procurement, customer service, client relationships, budget, security, records management, property administration, facilities, and human resources organizations during his tenure. He was a key leader on the National Performance Review for Procurement and Customer Service Reform, under the first Clinton/Gore Administration, has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Small Business Committee on Procurement Reform and wrote testimony that was presented before the District of Columbia's Committee for Government Operations. He served as Command Secretariat during the initial standup of the U.S. Cyber Command under the Obama/Biden Administration. In 2024, he was awarded the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award under the Biden/Harris Administration.

A native of Richmond, Virginia, Johnson earned a B.S. in Business Administration and Management from Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Business and completed course work towards an M.B.A. at both Marymount University and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He earned the Master's Certification in Government Contracting from The George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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He is an ordained Church of God Ministries, Inc. (Anderson, IN) minister and has served in a myriad of leadership positions over the past 25 years in the local church across the USA, to include Senior Pastor, as well as internationally in Kenya Africa, St. Lucia, Turks and Caicos, and London England. His latest books - Leadership with a Servant's Heart - are an Amazon.com new release best-seller in two categories and have earned literary 16 awards from 2020 to date. Johnson is currently serving a second 4-year team as Faith Community Commissioner for Suicide Prevention under Maryland Governors Larry Hogan and Wes Moore. 

He lives in Clarksville, Maryland with his wife of 32 years, Gail, and raised three sons. He has one God daughter and two God granddaughters.