Dr. Katherine Johnson: Author, Consultant, and Executive

Dr. Katherine Johnson is a best-selling Author, Consultant, and Executive with over 30 years’ experience in the field of energy-efficient technologies and management. She is the Founder and President of Johnson Consulting Group, which provides strategic planning, marketing, and financial consultative services to electric and gas utilities throughout North America and Canada. During her extensive career, Dr. Johnson has completed more than 200 process and impact evaluations. For the past decade, she has been leading collaborative forums to help guide decision-making efforts, regarding the cost-effectiveness of current and emerging energy-efficiency tools and policy initiatives.

Dr. Johnson is also an author, including technical manuals, a novel, and one nonfiction book. Dr. Johnson started her college career in 1979 at Butler University, where she was involved in Delta Gamma, RHO LAMBDA - Outstanding Greek Women on Campus, TAPS, SPURS, and the school’s championship-winning Debate Team. Dr. Johnson continued her undergraduate studies at Indiana University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Journalism in 1983. Next, she earned a Master of Business Administration degree, with concentrations in Marketing and Finance, in 1990 from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College.

She went on to study at the University of Southern Queensland and graduated in 2010 with her Doctor of Business Administration in Strategy and Organizational Change. Her dissertation was titled, "Changes in the Strategic Focus and Internal Operating Culture of Investor-Owned US Electric Utilities Due to Deregulation."

Dr. Johnson has been recognized for her three decades of outstanding work with the B.H. Prasad Outstanding Contributor of the Year Award and was interviewed by Close Up radio in regard to her career achievements. In 2020, she was named Energy Efficiency Professional of the Year, and one of Energy Central’s "Voices of Energy."