Keith Johnson
Author • Speaker • Leadership Consultant
Keith Johnson has spent his career helping organizations build leadership capability at the intersection of people, process, and technology. He works primarily with SaaS companies — consulting across product, engineering, sales, implementation, and account management — and has developed a reputation for helping leaders get clear on what they actually want from their teams before deploying new tools or approaches.
That work led directly to Intent Management™. After seeing the same failure mode repeat across clients navigating AI adoption — organizations investing heavily in AI tools while producing inconsistent or unusable output — Keith identified the root cause: leaders were adopting AI without a clear framework for communicating intent to the humans and systems doing the work. Intent Management™ is the response to that problem.
The framework is built from real implementation work, not academic research. It has been applied in working sessions with leadership teams across industries, refined through practical use, and documented in two books — including Alignment at Speed: Leading AI-Enabled Teams.
Keith's first book, Shifting Into Leadership, addresses a different but related challenge: the transition from individual contributor to team leader. That book grew from the same observation — that most organizations promote talented people into leadership roles without giving them a practical model for how to actually do the job.
He consults through Dolce Consulting, is available for keynotes and workshops, and works directly with leaders on advisory engagements. He is based in Carlsbad, California.
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