Johnston, Charles M.: - Charles Johnston.MD is a psychiatrist and futurist. His work addresses the questions on which our human well-being most depends. For twenty-five years, Dr. Johnston served as director of the Institute for Creative Development, a Seattle-based think tank and center for advanced leadership training. He is best known as the originator of Creative Systems Theory. He has written eleven books and numerous articles on the future and how we can best prepare to meet it.