About Nekohl

Nekohl Johnson is a Mental Health Specialist, Trauma Healing Specialist, healthcare executive, educator, and United States Army veteran who served eight years on active duty. With over 35 years of experience in business, clinical laboratory medicine, and executive leadership, she brings a rare blend of operational expertise, systems thinking, and healing-centered advocacy to every space she leads.

As the Owner of NCJ: I AM THE MAP, LLC, Nekohl provides leadership development, trauma-informed programming, and strategic consulting designed to help individuals and organizations move from survival to sustainable wholeness. Her work integrates structure and strategy with emotional intelligence, faith-informed resilience, and community empowerment.

She is the Founder and President of Where We Meet, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that delivers arts-based and recreational therapeutic programming for veterans and trauma survivors. Through theatre, storytelling, and cohort-based healing experiences, the organization creates restorative environments where veterans and military affiliates can reconnect with identity, purpose, and community.

An acclaimed author of A Queen Was Born Again, Nekohl uses narrative as a powerful tool for transformation. Through her signature platform, Be Whole with Nekohl, she facilitates workshops, groups, leadership seminars, and wholeness-centered programming for veteran and military affiliated communities locally and nationally.

Her background in healthcare operations, including leadership at the Director level, combined with her certifications and community work position her uniquely at the intersection of systems, service, and restoration.

Nekohl’s life’s work is rooted in one mission: meeting people where they are and guiding them toward clarity, strength, and wholeness.