Tim Johnson has spent his entire career helping clients communicate with and connect more closely to the communities where they operate and the elected officials who represent those communities. A graduate of Louisiana State University (LSU), Tim is a leading national consultant in local stakeholder engagement and has worked with the world’s largest and most recognizable global industrial companies. He is known across the United States for his ability to assist TJC Group clients in securing and maintaining their public license to operate by building knowledge, understanding, trust, and goodwill among all their critical stakeholders.
Tim is the leading national consultant for the creation, management, facilitation, and revitalization of industry-based and law enforcement-based Community Advisory Panels / Councils (CAPs / CACs), having created more than 70 panels in eight states and personally facilitated over 2,200 individual CAP meetings. The TJC Group currently manages / facilitates 30+ individual CAPs/CACs. These CAPs assist industrial plants and law enforcement agencies and their leadership to listen more effectively to, and communicate with, the communities where they operate.
Tim’s background includes six years as a lead committee staffer for the Louisiana State Senate and five years as the Director of Business Development for the Construction and Maintenance Division of the Shaw Group (Engineering and construction firm). Tim served almost seven years as the Director of Training and then Executive Director for the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Pelican Chapter, leading one of the largest privately funded construction craft training centers in the United States with an enrollment of over 1,500 students per semester. For eight years, Tim was the host of the Louisiana Business and Industry Show, a weekly television and digital media program that reached an audience of over one million in the Lafayette, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Hammond, Houma, and Thibodeaux markets. (26 South Louisiana Parishes)
Tim and his wife Kelly have been married for 34 years. They reside just outside of Baton Rouge and have three children – Hillary (32) and son-in-law Scotty, Peyton (31), and Nicholas (28). He enjoys spending time with his family, LSU athletics, reading political and historical biographies, his classic cars and motorcycles, and running. He sings tenor in the St. Aloysius Catholic Church choir.