The Thrive Shift x Human + Tech Week

The Thrive Shift x Human + Tech Week

Redesigning Work, Tech, and Leadership to Honor Lived Experience, Human Limits, and Beautiful Possibility.

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I’m Linea Johnson, a lived experience strategist, mental health advocate, and founder of The Thrive Shift, a consulting practice that helps organizations integrate disability, mental health, and inclusive design into their work and culture.

What I Do

  • Lived Experience Consulting for ethical tech, mental health innovation, and inclusive design

  • Strategic Advising on mental health and disability initiatives

  • Workplace Culture & Leadership Coaching

  • Workshops & Keynotes on thriving beyond the medical model

I specialize in turning lived experience into strategic insight.

Lived experience isn’t a flaw in the system;

it’s a compass.

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If you’re a health tech founder, funder, or builder…

Let’s explore how to ethically design with, and not just for, those with lived experience.

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We keep calling it human-centered AI. But which humans are centered? If your models only understand typical patterns, you’re not building human-centered systems; you’re building norm-centered ones. And when people with lived experience
A note for lurkers, slow creators, and anyone feeling like they should be posting more: My last few months have been packed with incredible panels, workshops, conferences, and events. But if you looked at my social media, you wouldn’t know it.
Tuesday’s panel at the @onemindorg at Work Global Forum left me so energized. One of my core messages to employers was this: ➡️Evaluation doesn’t start with numbers, it starts with listening. You need real feedback loops — anonym