Director
As a co-founder of Insight Policy Research (Insight), COO of Westat Insight, and Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Westat, Bryan Johnson has provided strategic leadership, corporate oversight, and capture and business development leadership for over 30 years. Mr. Johnson was the co-founder of Insight Policy Research and led the development of the start-up company in 2001 to one of the premier small businesses in the federal research and evaluation sector. Upon the merging of the company with Westat in 2022, he served as the COO of Westat Insight and the Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Westat. He is a nationally known leader of studies across agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service, the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration, as well as State agencies and nonprofit organizations. He is a recognized expert in service delivery, workforce development, education and training, and access to care for populations at need. He initiated, fostered, and built Insight’s food and nutrition division, turning it into one of the nation’s foremost research organizations in the areas of SNAP and WIC and affiliated food support programs in the mainland US and territories. He is renowned for his work in performance measurement and key performance indicators, having led the development of performance monitoring frameworks for government agencies and performance measurement development and assessments for multiple agencies, states, and nonprofit organizations.