Shawn Johnson

Executive Product, Design, UX/CX & Brand Leader | Founder, SocioPunk | AI Strategy, Design Systems, GTM & Growth | Ex-WBD, NBCUniversal, Microsoft | Speaker, Author, Advisor, Coach | Punk

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Advisor, Investor & Board Member
Jul 2023
A vibrant, democratic and equitable global community platform where style and self expression empowers cultural awareness, sustainability and personal ownership. Swune is more than a platform, it’s a movement! We create opportunities around culture, style and fashion to expose, promote and empower everyday people designers, creators and style influencers in ways that build equity, empathy and community while generating growth, inclusion and visibility. Whether its a special occasion, your first job interview, or everyday needs, with Swune you can always be your best self with confidence and style.
Dad, Product, Design & CX Executive + Speaker, Advisor, Investor, Incubator & Customer Consigliere
Mar 2022
Currently working on something new and very exciting
Investor & Advisor
Jun 2021
Lake Park Girl is an innovative company created to bring genuine, authentic, and passionate storytelling to life. We explore and expand our efforts to all types of media, channels and outlets, to deliver emotionally engaging experiences to audiences everywhere. OUR MISSION to be broad-seeking and global in our reach when connecting meaningful stories to the world. OUR VALUES Genuine -- We believe in genuine, authentic, and meaningful stories told in a way that connect with people on an emotional level. Dynamic -- We create dynamic, energetic, and passionate content across every screen and platform to resonate with a global audience. Inventive -- We are imaginative, disruptive and pioneering in our approach, constantly looking for new ways to explore the art of storytelling. OUR PURPOSE - Promote diversity in thought, through our philosophy and actions. - Believe the best stories are those spoken from the heart with soul and passion. - Work directly with creatives to provide full package development and distribution. - Create close partnership to find the right audience, and the right outlet for your vision & voice. - Expand the value of storytelling, narratives and creativity that connects people.
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2023
Advisor, Investor & Board Member
Jul 2023
A vibrant, democratic and equitable global community platform where style and self expression empowers cultural awareness, sustainability and personal ownership. Swune is more than a platform, it’s a movement! We create opportunities around culture, style and fashion to expose, promote and empower everyday people designers, creators and style influencers in ways that build equity, empathy and community while generating growth, inclusion and visibility. Whether its a special occasion, your first job interview, or everyday needs, with Swune you can always be your best self with confidence and style.
Founder & President
Apr 2023
Seichō Syndicate is a Fractional Product, Design & Experience Network that empowers growth through technology, organizational transformation & product innovation. We are a diverse and experienced global syndicate of executives, leaders and practitioners that focus on customer experience, organizational and cultural transformation by identifying product, design, experience, and business opportunities that connect in new and innovative ways to achieve immediate, measurable and sustainable growth. Our members have over 50 years of experience working with companies and organizations specializing in holistic experiences including Strategy, Brand, Product, Design, UX, CX, Operations, Research and Insights. We are entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs with corporate, startup and incubator experience who have worked with some of the most prominent companies in the world including Microsoft, NBCUniversal, Stanley Black & Decker, Wayfair, Bose, WSJ, Disney, Meta, Google, Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery to build transformative products, high functioning teams, create operational excellence and innovative cultures that deliver some of the most engaging experiences and products to create customer value, business results and opportunities for innovative growth. We think about how to improve the customer experience to enable growth, increase customer value and profitability to help secure your business future. We present realistic plans that are designed, delivered and executed specifically for your organization and no other, to create incremental, continuous and sustainable innovation. We have led global teams, agencies and products through insights and transformation; therefore, we know what works because we have failed, learned and succeeded in many different environments. This gives us honesty, expertise and the determination to drive real change for businesses, teams and customers.
2022
Founder & President
Jul 2022
Founded by Shawn Johnson, an Executive Global Design, UX/CX, Creative, Product & Brand Leader with over 25 years of experience across industries. SocioPunk embodies the next generation of our digital experiences across multiple products, platforms, channels and service methods. We are an innovative, future focused Product & Design Studio that explores the edges and pushes the boundaries of traditional thinking to create extraordinary experiences, products and brands. We align organizations and leadership with meaningful visions, missions and shared principles that excite and ignite customers and cultures. We rethink and reshape the way people engage with technology in meaningful and valuable ways. We drive change and innovation through design led consulting, coaching, narratives and project based workshops that create organizational value and drive continued sustainable success. When youre looking for an experienced team that understands change is hard, that transformation takes time, and recognizes that the impossible is always possible with the right approach, structure, experience, team and plan. SocioPunk is your trusted partner and customer consigliere.
Dad, Product, Design & CX Executive + Speaker, Advisor, Investor, Incubator & Customer Consigliere
Mar 2022
Currently working on something new and very exciting
2021
Investor & Advisor
Jun 2021
Lake Park Girl is an innovative company created to bring genuine, authentic, and passionate storytelling to life. We explore and expand our efforts to all types of media, channels and outlets, to deliver emotionally engaging experiences to audiences everywhere. OUR MISSION to be broad-seeking and global in our reach when connecting meaningful stories to the world. OUR VALUES Genuine -- We believe in genuine, authentic, and meaningful stories told in a way that connect with people on an emotional level. Dynamic -- We create dynamic, energetic, and passionate content across every screen and platform to resonate with a global audience. Inventive -- We are imaginative, disruptive and pioneering in our approach, constantly looking for new ways to explore the art of storytelling. OUR PURPOSE - Promote diversity in thought, through our philosophy and actions. - Believe the best stories are those spoken from the heart with soul and passion. - Work directly with creatives to provide full package development and distribution. - Create close partnership to find the right audience, and the right outlet for your vision & voice. - Expand the value of storytelling, narratives and creativity that connects people.
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