As the founder of Q4 Consulting Inc. and the Core Presence Institute, Chris Johnson, PsyD. is passionately committed to learning and cultivating exemplary leaders and collaborative teams, healthy workplaces, and engaged, thriving communities.
Chris has worked extensively for over 30 years with leaders and their teams in organizations as diverse as health care, finance, manufacturing, local municipalities, and education to effectively grapple with system-wide change.
She’s coached executives and managers to cultivate their leadership presence and strategic thinking, and to surface and creatively engage with conflict through powerful conversations. Chris has taught and trained work teams in addressing work stress, cultivating resiliency, and engaging personnel conflicts straight away.
Chris is committed to creating feedback-rich environments in which to develop excellence in leadership that results in transformational change. The Core Commitment Cycle, a transformational process, integrates Mindful Attention, 360º Awareness, and the language of Conscious Conversations in an innovative offer for teams seeking to improve performance.
Energetic, innovative, and highly interactive, Chris partners with clients who are curious to embark on fully integrating life and work in sustainable ways. Together they co-create space to learn, clarify goals, develop competencies and create skillful, embodied action towards results that matter. Chris is known for creating trust with those who value honesty, deep listening and straight talk, and her commitment to their success.
She holds a PsyD. from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology where she’s taught in the Business Psychology and the Executive and Professional Development Programs. Chris is certified as an ‘Integral Coach’ from New Ventures West and as a Master Somatic Leadership Coach by the Strozzi Institute, work she uses in her work as an Executive Coach with the Stagen Leadership Academy. Currently, she’s the Chair for the Chicago Chapter of Conscious Capitalism, and published her first book, The Leadership Pause, on conscious leadership in 2022.
When she’s not working, she’s likely gardening, hiking or skiing, reading a great book or writing one, or at the aikido dojo where she practices and teaches the art of peace.
As the founder of Q4 Consulting Inc. and the Core Presence Institute, Chris Johnson, PsyD. is passionately committed to learning and cultivating exemplary leaders and collaborative teams, healthy workplaces, and engaged, thriving communities.
