Dr. Johnson is CEO of BAJA, Inc, a Ghana-based company specializing in gold-mining, agriculture, healthcare, education and entertainment. He is also Chairman of the Board of Sesi-Edem, a gold-mining company in Accra, Ghana. For 10 years and counting, Johnson has served in the Education Policy Center as a Senior Fellow at the University of Alabama and as a national board member for the Congressional Award Foundation (a youth advocacy program, the only sanctioned charity of the US Congress.) Johnson is on the board of the Phoenix Theatre Company, Gamma Mu Educational Services, and the executive committee of Homebuilders Institute.

Dr. Brian K. Johnson was the first African American president of Montgomery College in Maryland. His prior executive assignments were at Community College of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh, PA) and Maricopa Community Colleges (Mesa, AZ.). Johnson has completed numerous executive leadership programs including Harvard University’s New Presidents Academy, Harvard’s Institute for the Management of Lifelong Learning, the Pennsylvania Educational Policy Fellowship Program, Leadership Pittsburgh and Leadership Montgomery. He earned his Ed.D. in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University (NAU), an M.A. Ed from NAU in counseling and human relations, and a BA in psychology from Ottawa University. He is a Lifetime member of the NAACP, a member of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., 100 Black Men of America, and Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity (the Boule’).