Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois Center for Nonprofit Excellence

The Rev. Matthew Johnson recently completed 17 years as the senior minister at The Unitarian Universalist Church, Rockford and now serves as a full-time consultant for Unitarian Universalist congregations across the Midwest. In his time in Rockford, he has served on a variety of boards, including Alignment Rockford and Rockford Promise, as well as a host of interfaith and national UU committees and organizations. He has working expertise in Adaptive Leadership, emergent strategy, Mission/Vision, Strategic Planning, conflict transformation, and related topics. A graduate of Whitman College, Meadville Lombard Theological School, and Iliff School of Theology, he’s also the author of Newborn Bards: A Theology of Preaching For Unitarian Universalists. He’s been to all 50 states, and walked pilgrimages in Israel, Transylvania, New England, and 560 miles of the Camino de Santiago in Spain.

Matthew's areas of skill include:

• Board development
• Strategic action plan facilitation
• General facilitation
• Team building
• Pre-planning (mission, vision, core values)
• Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
• Collaboration facilitation