Jared Johnson

Founder and Consumer Health Strategist Shift Forward Health

Jared is a consumer strategy advisor on a mission to make healthcare easier for everyday people. He has produced hundreds of podcast episodes and thousands of articles, social media posts, and pages of web content as a senior digital strategist for some of the top healthcare and medtech brands in the country, including St. Jude Medical, Pfizer, W. L. Gore, and Phoenix Children’s Hospital.  Jared is a rapping keynote speaker, host of the long-running Healthcare Rap Podcast, founder of the Consumer-First Health Group, winner of the Medigy HITMC 2021 Marketer of the Year Award, and author of two books, Marketing Forward and Connect the Docs.  When he isn’t challenging the status quo, he can be found running obstacle course races or hiking with his wife and their four children.