Carla Johnson is the world’s leading innovation architect, helping organizations and their teams think bigger, bolder, and more creatively. With a career spanning work with some of the world’s most admired brands – including Amazon, Dell, 3M, Intel, Hilton, LinkedIn, Pfizer, and Citi Bank – Carla has inspired thousands of leaders to embrace applied curiosity and rethink how innovation happens.

She is the author of 10 books, including RE:Think Innovation, which provides a proven 5-step framework for turning ideas into breakthrough results. Carla’s journey began in a one-room schoolhouse, where she was often the only girl tackling advanced subjects. She went on to become the only woman in a 250-person physics class and eventually became the 4th woman in 90 years to chair the prestigious ANA B2B group.

As founder of RE:Think Labs, Carla works at the intersection of creativity and business strategy. Her insights have been featured at major conferences across six continents, and she is recognized globally as a thought leader on innovation, creativity, and the evolving role of AI in the creative process.

Whether she’s showing teams how to apply curiosity as a strategic tool, rethink what innovation means, or harness AI as a creative partner, Carla delivers presentations that are bold, practical, and packed with actionable strategies that audiences can implement immediately.