Dale P. Johnson is the senior director of digital innovation in the University Design Institute at Arizona State University. He works with university leaders all over the world to develop and implement digital solutions to their local challenges.  Those efforts have earned him the 2016 Sally M. Johnstone Award from WCET recognizing his thought leadership, excellence in practice, and demonstrated leadership capabilities. In 2018, he was also honored by the IMS Global Learning Consortium with an outstanding service award for his leadership of the adaptive courseware community of practice.

Johnson has spoken on the topic of digital innovation in higher education at more than 40 conferences in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and led workshops on the subject at numerous universities.

He has a bachelor of science in design degree from ASU and a master in public policy degree from Harvard University, a learning path that combined his interests in design, engineering and education. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling and building things. He’s traveled to more than 50 countries, studied in Barcelona for a year as a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar, and built his own solar home in Phoenix.