Jim Johnson

Jim has worked in small businesses and micro-enterprises for over forty years, and has spent over twenty of those years working with and for worker co-ops and other types of co-ops. From 1999 thru 2009 he served at a DC-area worker co-op as a software engineer, worker-owner, and co-facilitator of its conversion from a conventional enterprise. He’s been a full-time free-lance co-op developer since 2009, actively providing technical assistance to worker co-ops, start-ups, and conventional businesses exploring conversion to worker-ownership. Jim is also a co-founder of the Democracy at Work Network, the technical assistance service of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives from 2011 thru 2018, and supported DAWN as a Peer Advisor and Governor.