Hope Johnson

Managing Director

Baltimore

Hope Johnson is a Managing Director and a member of the firm’s Not-for-Profit practice. In addition to her diverse Not-for Profit background spanning more than 20 years, she has significant expertise as well within the Education and Healthcare sectors.

Her particular insight comes from extensive experience with search firms and within the broader human resources and recruiting function. Hope founded and served as President and CEO of her own executive search firm prior to joining Boyden. This experience running a woman-owned business adds to her expertise and the value-added she brings to clients seeking candidates with rich and varied backgrounds, and she is a veteran of hundreds of diversity searches.

Hope’s search career began with the search subsidiary of Fidelity Investments, and continued with another Washington, DC-based executive search firm. Prior to search, she honed her functional expertise as a recruiter with National Medical Enterprises and with Booz Allen Hamilton in the human resource area. Hope has conducted senior-level assignments for corporations, small private companies, government agencies, and academic institutions, and over the course of her significant search career she has cultivated expertise and a special focus on serving Not-for-Profit, Education, and Healthcare clients.

Her personal commitment includes service to the Peace Corps as both a volunteer in Malaysia and as a staff member of the Country Desk in the Washington, DC, headquarters. Hope’s dedication continues today as a member of the Board of Directors for the National Peace Corps Association, among other boards on which she serves, including George Mason University School of Education and Human Development.

Hope’s honors are many and illustrate her commitment to diversity, among them: being named in Key Women in Retained Executive Search, serving as a Representative to United Nations Decade for Women, Nairobi, Kenya, and participating by invitation in Lead Virginia, Leadership Fairfax, and Leadership America.

Hope holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of South Carolina.