John Jackson

D. John Jackson is a Fortune 50 leader whose global responsibilities have spanned strategic planning, engineering, data science, and artificial intelligence. With more than thirty years of engineering and business leadership, he is also a documentary film executive producer, strategist, lecturer, and motivational speaker, and the founder of 5J Entertainment, a company dedicated to promoting positive images of African Americans through media. In his book, What About Me: Walking the Tightrope as a Black Man in America, Jackson draws on the stories and lessons of his own journey to deliver a message to young Black men and boys: your life matters, your dreams matter, and you can achieve them no matter who you are or where you start.