Founder • Mentor • Systems Builder
I build technology, programs, and communities that help people turn their potential into organized action.
Based in Brockton, Massachusetts — serving the Greater Boston community while building for a broader audience.
About
I'm Richard Johnson, a founder, mentor, coach, and systems builder from Brockton, Massachusetts. My background includes youth development, nonprofit leadership, education, athletics, financial services, community development, and technology.
Although my projects serve different audiences, the work is connected. I identify potential, create structure around it, and build practical systems that help people move forward. Sometimes that system is a youth-development program. Sometimes it is a digital platform. Sometimes it is mentorship, accountability, or a community partnership.
I believe strong ideas need more than inspiration. They need discipline, organization, accountability, and the right people working together.
Developing people through coaching, education, accountability, and youth programming.
Building mission-driven organizations and ventures that address real problems.
Turning ideas into practical programs, processes, platforms, and tools.
Featured Venture
MindYours is an AI-powered business management platform designed for entrepreneurs managing multiple businesses, projects, and responsibilities. It gives founders one organized place to clarify priorities, work with specialized AI business agents, make better decisions, and move their businesses forward.
Entrepreneurs often do not lack ideas. They lack the time, team, structure, and support needed to execute them. MindYours is being built to help close that gap.
Ecosystem
Each venture addresses a different part of the same challenge: helping people create structure, demonstrate progress, develop discipline, and turn potential into meaningful action.
Sporvo is a youth-development organization helping middle- and high-school students make progress in school, sports, and life through progress monitoring, personal athletic training, financial literacy, mentorship, leadership, and accountability.
Developing young people through consistent support, measurable progress, and TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More.
Intent is a daily-discipline platform designed to help people turn goals into consistent action. It focuses on the habits, accountability, and follow-through required to make progress one day at a time.
Big goals become real through disciplined daily action.
ProofWork AI is a professional portfolio concept designed to help people organize, demonstrate, and communicate the work they produce—so their abilities can lead to employment, clients, partnerships, and other opportunities.
Potential becomes more valuable when people can clearly show what they have accomplished.
Richard's community work connects mentorship, leadership development, education, athletics, financial literacy, and local partnerships to create stronger systems of opportunity.
Building environments where people, ideas, and communities can grow.
ProofWork AI currently uses a temporary typographic treatment — no official logo has been provided yet.
How the work connects
The ventures are different, but the process is consistent. Recognize potential. Create a clear structure. Build discipline and accountability. Measure progress. Connect that progress to meaningful opportunities.
Experience
Founder of Sporvo, a youth-development nonprofit.
Founder and builder of MindYours.
Youth-development professional, mentor, and coach.
Experience developing programs for schools, students, athletes, and community partners.
Former chairman and longtime board member of the Brockton Redevelopment Authority.
Background in financial services, student support, community engagement, program development, and technology.
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
Graduate of Merrimack College with studies in Sociology and Criminology.
“I do not believe people lack potential. Too often, they lack the structure, support, accountability, and opportunity needed to bring that potential forward.”
Current focus
My primary entrepreneurial focus is growing MindYours and learning directly from entrepreneurs who are managing multiple businesses, ideas, and responsibilities. I am also continuing Sporvo's youth-development work while thoughtfully developing the next stages of Intent and ProofWork AI.
Connect
I'm interested in connecting with entrepreneurs, educators, technology builders, community leaders, funders, and strategic partners who believe strong ideas grow further through structure, collaboration, and consistent execution.