Brad Johnston is a Bracebridge-based writer exploring the intersections of voice, identity, and human development. Drawing on his lived experience with stuttering, Brad’s work investigates how practices such as speaking, singing, movement, and creative expression can reshape our relationship with language, self-expression, and belonging.
Brad spent much of his professional career in the Ontario Public Service working in business redesign and service management. Later in life, he pursued training in life coaching and developed a deep interest in experiential forms of learning—particularly improvisation, clown, and mammal play, practices that cultivate spontaneity, responsiveness, and relational awareness. His training also includes Forest School practitioner certification and Contakids teaching, both of which reflect his interest in embodied intelligence, learning through movement, and the subtle power dynamics required for connection and play between people.
His current book project is a narrative nonfiction exploration of fluency. Blending memoir, psychology, and neuroscience, Brad’s writing reflects an ongoing self-inquiry into neurodiversity, individual differences, and how people reshape identity through practice, attention, and lived experience—including the ways voice, relationship, and power dynamics shape how we express ourselves.
When not writing, Brad participates in community singing, improvisational movement, and outdoor life throughout Muskoka. Through his work, he hopes to contribute to a broader conversation about voice, creativity, and the lifelong process of becoming more fully oneself.