Larry L. Johnson is the Director of Public Safety for the Johns Hopkins Health System — one of the largest and most complex healthcare security operations on the East Coast. His career spans the Orlando Police Department, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General, and the Defense Intelligence Agency OIG.

In this episode of Clues of Leadership, Director Johnson discusses what he misunderstood about leadership early in his career, why his first supervisory assignment failed, and how he rebuilt his approach from the ground up. He breaks down the three things every emerging leader needs — a mentor, a teacher, and an advocate — and why none of them are interchangeable.

The conversation covers networking as a professional discipline, the habits that make leaders visible before they ha ...