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Charley Johnson

2012 Speaker

Charley Johnson is an entrepreneur and former Owner of a manufacturing company. Johnson has a deep passion for spreading and harnessing the Pay it Forward movement.  He believes so heavily, in fact, that he left his company and very lucrative career behind to help the world and change how people view humanity. Today, Johnson is President of the Pay it Forward Foundation and Head of the Worldwide Pay it Forward Movement. He created the Pay it Forward Bracelet, which has been sent to over 1.2 million people in 116 countries.  He founded the “PIF Experience,” the official website of the Pay it Forward Movement. Johnson also founded the “Pay it Forward Hall of Fame” in November of 2011 with the first inductee being Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of the Pay it Forward Novel.