About Mike Johnson & Summit Forum
Four Decades of Business, Leadership & Formation
Mike Johnson has spent more than 40 years inside businesses and alongside the people who lead them.
The Work Behind the Invitation.
20 Years in the Corporate World
Including Fortune 500 experience with Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline and Northern Trust.
Master’s Degree in Transformational Leadership
Deepening his understanding of how people, leaders and teams grow and are formed.
Eight Years Leading CEO Advisory Boards
With C12, working closely with owners and CEOs.
Became a Certified EOS Implementer
Learning firsthand the power of clarity, accountability, operating discipline and repetition inside leadership teams.
Over time, as trust grew, Mike was invited deeper into companies to work alongside leadership teams on difficult people, leadership and business issues that systems alone couldn’t solve.
That Work Led to Summit Forum.
The deeper Mike went into companies, the clearer something became: some of the greatest opportunities to strengthen a business and its leaders are hiding in the everyday Moments already happening inside the company.
Instead of taking leaders away from the work to train them, we walk beside them, notice what they’re actually facing, and turn those Moments into leadership reps for the whole team.
That’s how Summit Forum develops leaders.
This is not a new idea. For generations, strong organizations have shown that developing people and building strong businesses can go together.
Over the past five years, Mike has continued testing, strengthening and integrating these practices through real work alongside companies and leadership teams.
Moments are the reps.
The business is the training ground.
As leaders become stronger, they learn to strengthen the people they lead. That’s the foundation of the Business Athlete and Leadership Strength Multiplication.
Leadership development shouldn’t be an event people attend. Summit Forum brings it into the everyday work—using real Moments as reps until stronger leadership becomes practice, formation and ultimately part of how the company operates.
Stronger Businesses. Stronger People.
We are not asking businesses to become charities. We’re asking whether successful businesses can become places where people produce excellent work and become stronger human beings in the process.
Stronger people and stronger businesses reinforce each other. Summit Forum helps companies make that relationship intentional.
We’re not standing outside American business criticizing it. We’re standing inside it, working alongside the people carrying the load—one Moment and one leadership rep at a time.
Business will shape us whether we intend it to or not. Summit Forum believes great companies can produce strong results and stronger people.
What Kind of Leaders Are We Becoming?
- Love
- Joy
- Peace
- Patience
- Kindness
- Goodness
- Faithfulness
- Gentleness
- Self-control
Leaders who tell the truth. Hold people accountable. Make difficult decisions. Encourage growth. Serve customers. Deliver results. And leave the people they lead stronger than they found them.
That’s the kind of business we want to help build.
Solve the Moment. Strengthen the Leader. Multiply the Strength.
WIN TOGETHER.