Today we’d like to introduce you to Darryl Johnson.
Darryl, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I have always been someone who dealt with an uncomfortable situation with reason and intelligence. However, it gets tiring and it doesn’t change the fact that I am angry. I am angry at America’s systematic racism pandemic and how it continues to disturb my way of life. I am different from others and so is my organization, The Path: An Agent of Change, Inc. Some people get angry and fight. Some people get tired and give in. I am both angry and tired, but I strategize. My superpower is problem-solving. I am a Certified ScrumMaster and IBM design thinking co-creator. Also, I am in my psychology graduate program. I decided to use all of this to create the most powerful agent of change in history. We have taken Change and made it a tangible product that solves America’s most wicked problem, systematic racism.
As a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success, I was a finalist in their first Social Justice Grant, The United by Purpose Grant and that was how The Path got started. We are an additive to all. Therefore, we will work with any business or organization to teach product management from a human-centric point. However, our best contribution is to other nonprofits as we teach and collaborate with you on projects strategically designed to push your product or service to be more effective and productive. We believe that if we can teach others how to be effective, we will accomplish our goal of destroying systematic racism.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
No, and yes. There are three major obstacles we are struggling, but overcoming. One, Popularity and money, in most cases, supersedes purpose. People have the means to help and further progress our mission. However, we are new to Atlanta and we are a startup. All we have is our purpose, vision, and passion and it has helped maintain us.
Two, we need to gain a sense of community, not competition. The Path is designed to be most effective in collaboration with others. However, other organizations we have met with have made us a competition. We don’t want to be,
Three, we want and need all people of all races and of all backgrounds to work with The Path for our design to be authentic. However, DEI and systematic racism is a sensitive topic and people are afraid to work with us. We want everyone to know that NO ONE is responsible for a past they didn’t create, but they are accountable for our future. Help us to define and design the future.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I specialize in designing for change. I have taken a major formula that is centered on human behavior and a human-centric design process and creates change into tangible projects towards equality. This is what sets us apart from all others who deal with racial injustice, DEI, etc.
We have started three projects, Project voice, Project Increase, and Project Cultivation. All three projects specialize in researching human behavior, collecting data to design our product, and starting to change our society into a more collaborative and communal society.
I am most proud of winning the NSLS united by purpose grant. It gave me hope that others will grow to love The Path just as much as I do. People want change but have never been provided a favorable vision of it.
We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you?
I don’t believe in luck. Luck diminishes the positive and negative actions and decisions you have had made that support conclude in the outcomes we experience in life. I need to be aware of it all so that I know that I don’t make a decision that can impact myself and others.
Contact Info:
- Email: info@ifyouwontiwill.com
- Website: www.ifyouwontiwill.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepath2021/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePathEst2021
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/2021Path
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcFe9L6Fp54952dR78mpf_Q
