Christy, Founder & CEO @ Artemis Connection, WA

Christy Johnson is an entrepreneur and educator. She is currently building her third start-up, Artemis Connection and facilitating a course on designing organizations for Creativity/Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She has seven years of experience working in corporate strategy, including 3.5 years at McKinsey & Co. Before this, Christy was an award winning economics and mathematics teacher. In 2005, Junior Achievement recognized Christy as its National Teacher of the Year. Christy was interviewed by one of our Catalysts and team members, Helen.

Another big role of education reform is just exposure to people really different from you. Different backgrounds, different views. Learning how to deal with that is really important.

CHRISTY JOHNSON