Keith D. Pete Johnson

The essence of me is about providing a vision of influence; seeing the world as a whole, while still being grounded. I lived with limits to track my past achievements and future progress. Every moment of my life, I am no better than my last triumph or my first failure.

I possess the powerful and rather unusual combination of being able to both analyze and empathize. Yes, I understand numbers, facts, data and proof. But I also understand human beings. I can explain things to people. I can explain people to other people. I can connect people with things. Where others see only data, I see stories, trends and movements. I bridge the gap between raging emotions and hard facts. I have endless curiosity about what makes people tick and models of human behavior fascinate me. I tend to be a psychoanalysis junkie. My sense of human engineering is keen. I’m a stabilizing force in tumultuous situations.

I know that even though people may forget what I said, they remember how I said it. I hate to be remembered for hurting people’s feelings. People recall how they felt when they were with me. I compose the most important part of the story, which is the fleshy, human, messy part. I need visionaries to create the environment I live in; I need producers and analysts to pull off the technical details. Only with them in place am I comfortable engaging with the issues larger than myself. I have countless titles, but overall I am an artist. I am nothing more nothing less.