A cooperative of practitioners, not a staffed firm.
Good Governance Consulting is a cooperative of senior practitioners - lobbyists, strategists, communicators, technologists, educators, and coaches - who come together around specific engagements. Clients get a senior team built for their need, not a staffed firm padded with junior hours. This is politics done differently, and intentionally.
Founder & CEO
Johntel Greene is the Founder and CEO of Good Governance Consulting. She built the firm to do politics differently - as a cooperative of senior practitioners who come together around specific engagements, leveraging shared knowledge and resources to deliver the strategy, advocacy, and innovation that the leaders moving public impact forward actually need.
Her philosophy is simple: good people supporting good organizations is how you build the foundations of a healthy society. The rest of the work flows from there.
A proud product of Prince George's County public schools, Johntel has spent sixteen years in and around government and politics in Maryland and DC. She served as Chief of Staff to Senator Sarah Elfreth in the Maryland General Assembly; as Senior Fellow with Education Pioneers providing chief-of-staff level support to NYC Public Schools in their COVID-19 response, where she led a $5 million air filtration initiative that helped reopen about 1,200 schools; and as Director of Legislative Affairs for the Maryland Association of Community Colleges, where she was part of the coalition that expanded the Community College Promise Scholarship by $15 million. She founded Good Governance Consulting in January 2024. Her work spans the General Assembly, county governments, school systems, and the campaigns that send leaders to office.
Available for panels, keynotes, and facilitated workshops on government relations, civic technology, political strategy, and advocacy. Especially interested in working with emerging leaders, nonprofits, and education organizations. Email johntel@goodgovernanceconsulting.com with the subject line "Speaking Inquiry."
Selected press, interviews, and features.
The Baltimore Banner
Ask this AI guide to the Maryland General Assembly anything
Feature by Rick Hutzell | November 2024
"AI can still hallucinate. And I want to make sure this is accurate before it accidentally influences policy." Profiled for developing GoodGov.com, an AI chatbot drawing from 2,500 public legislative documents.
John Dedie MD Politics
Interview: Good Governance Consulting & James Kitchin
Video Interview | January 2026
23-minute conversation on GGC's approach to political consulting and the Kitchin campaign for Anne Arundel County Executive.
Rotterdam School of Management
MBA Graduate Experience
Erasmus University Video Profile
Johntel shares highlights of the MBA program's fifth module and her favorite elective, design thinking.
MGRA
AI Today: Lunch & Learn Presenter
Maryland Government Relations Association
TEDCO
Entrepreneurship Expo Exhibitor
Good Gov AI demo and exhibition
Lindsay Watts, Founder & Principal
Jacqueline Greer, MPP, Founder
James Dann, Director & Founder
Good people, supporting good organizations. That's the work.