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Joy M. Johnson:
Joy Johnson is a seasoned executive who brings over twenty-five years of experience with a career foundation at IBM and progressively responsible leadership roles in Chubb Corporation, Delta Airlines, NYNEX Business Centers, and her own firm, The Mills Group. She has a proven track record of driving revenue growth in companies from startups to Fortune 100 organizations. She has held full Profit and Loss accountability and made major contributions in marketing, new business development, leadership, operations, and strategic planning.
As Co-Founder of GrowthMindset, Johnson offers business consulting and executive coaching, training and leadership development.
Johnson was the Vice President of Sales and Marketing from 2000 to 2001 at Chubb Computer Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chubb Corporation, a financial services company. She held full revenue generation responsibility, accountability for a $7M operating budget, and managed 20 direct reports for this proprietary technical education company with 2,200 employees in eleven locations. She was the Regional Director, Southern United States from 1999 to 2000 and the Branch Manager in 1998.
She was recruited in 1996 as the Director of Production Services for Delta Technology, Inc., a subsidiary of Delta Airlines. She held full budget responsibility for $4M and managed 300 direct reports. In this role, she directed IT business operations support and change management processes for Delta Airlines and the global help desk.
As the Marketing Director for Olympic Sponsorship for the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Properties(1992 to 1996), Johnson negotiated multiple $40M plus licensing agreements for corporate Olympic sponsorships for the 1996 Olympic Games, with a focus on high technology companies.
Her early career history included progressively responsible leadership roles at IBM and IBM/NYNEX Business Centers from 1977 to 1991. She was recruited by IBM Corporation as an Administrative Specialist in 1977 and was promoted to Administrative Manager in 1982. In 1983, she was promoted to Branch Manager. In 1986, the IBM Product Centers were acquired by NYNEX. Ms. Johnson held the position of Branch Manager in the new organization, until she was promoted to the Director of Sales Programs and transferred to corporate headquarters in 1988. Then in 1990 she was promoted again to the senior management team as the Director of Resource Planning and Controls.
