Contributing Faculty
College of Management and Technology
Boyd Johnson has earned a Ph.D. in International Studies, an M.A. in Anthropology, an M.A. in Theology, and a B.A. in Anthropology. He currently is a Professor in the doctoral program in Organizational Leadership at Indiana Wesleyan University and Adjunct Faculty at the College of Management and Technology of Walden University. Prior to that, he worked for World Vision International for 16 years in many roles, based in Australia and Asia. Dr. Johnson has done training, consulting and teaching in over 50 countries, has visited over 90 nations on six continents, and has lived in six countries. He is a dual citizen of Canada and the USA. He has studied, presented and published on global development, third-world poverty and change, and the role of ideologies in societies (particularly in the South Pacific, Pakistan and Thailand). His research interests include cross-cultural leadership with a particular focus on cultural intelligence.
Since 2013, Dr. Johnson has been carrying out an extended cultural intelligence research project in four countries in Eastern Europe: Ukraine-Moldova (post communist ex-USSR) and Slovenia-Serbia (post socialist ex-Yugoslavia).