Jason Johnson

Jason William Johnson is the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Chicago Urban League. In his role, he develops programming and provides strategic direction for an award-winning program that serves over 500 businesses annually. In FY 2019 the Center’s clients obtained 121 contracts worth $40,000,000 and created over 100 new jobs. The Center also provided clients with over 800 hours of one on one counseling and 3600 hours of entrepreneurship training. Jason is a doctoral candidate in Organizational Leadership and holds a Masters in Industrial-Organizational Psychology.  

He is an expert in business startup and growth strategy and the CEO of Cubicle Escape Club, a learning and coaching platform that helps ambitious professionals transition from full time employment to full time entrepreneurship. Prior to Cubicle Escape Club, Jason co-founded Konveau, an app that used personality compatibility to help people break the ice at social events. Publications such as Chicago Tribune Blue Sky Innovation, Chicago Inno, Technori and South Florida Business Journal have featured Konveau. Jason is also an alum of PowerMoves, the country’s largest accelerator for technology startup founders of color. Before Konveau, Jason founded Identity Engineers, a boutique branding and business strategy firm that operated in the Chicago Loop from 2010-2013.