Denise Roberson

C-Suite Purpose-Driven Leader | Professor | Board Member | Keynote Speaker | Thought Leader

📍 Laguna Beach, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Angel investor🌍 United States
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HealRWorld Board Member
Jul 2020
HealRWorld™(HRW) is a for-profit, socially conscious company that aggregates Environmental, Social and Governance sustainability data (People, Planet, Profit) to create insights that drive actions. Our vision is to leverage ESG, firmographic and credit data on SMEs and large global businesses to facilitate/accelerate the sales and trading of sustainably produced goods and encourage patronage of sustainable companies in both developed and emerging markets. Our data models, proprietary rating system and community platform are designed to empower the conscious business and consumer in sustainable commerce, donation and investment decisions.
Board Member
Jun 2010
The Mural Music & Arts Project (MMAP) educates, empowers, and inspires youth through participation in the arts by offering year-round, youth development programs in East Palo Alto and in San Francisco. MMAP was founded in 2001 in East Palo Alto, employing local teens to design and create a mural for every school in the local school district. Since its inception, MMAP's youth artists have researched, planned, and installed a public arts legacy. These murals reflect themes of community, cooperation, equity, justice, environment, and local history. Active and enthusiastic support inspired MMAP to expand and diversify programming in 2005 to include arts education, Hip Hop music production, and dance. Today, MMAP offers six programs: the Teen Mural Program, the Graffiti Arts Project, History through Hip Hop, Health Education through Art, Public Arts Consulting, and In-School Electives.
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2020
HealRWorld Board Member
Jul 2020
HealRWorld™(HRW) is a for-profit, socially conscious company that aggregates Environmental, Social and Governance sustainability data (People, Planet, Profit) to create insights that drive actions. Our vision is to leverage ESG, firmographic and credit data on SMEs and large global businesses to facilitate/accelerate the sales and trading of sustainably produced goods and encourage patronage of sustainable companies in both developed and emerging markets. Our data models, proprietary rating system and community platform are designed to empower the conscious business and consumer in sustainable commerce, donation and investment decisions.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Jadi Communications is a full-service marketing, creative content, digital, and media agency. Jadi connects people to brands in powerful ways. We believe through the relationships with our clients, we can improve the quality of consumer’s lives. Our highly stylized, complete marketing solutions help grow companies across the globe and at every stage of the business life cycle as if they were our own. Clients deserve a partner who is an expert in their marketplace, with the uncompromising principles of quality, consistency, and global thinking - every day. Our strengths are in strategic marketing, branding, creative content, advertising, video creation, and production, collateral design, digital communications, web design & development, web marketing, mobile, social media, packaging, point-of-purchase, media, and a technology team driven by analytics. Perhaps equally important, we are “client driven.” Jadi is lean and mean in our construct and particularly reliable in meeting deadlines and delivering products of excellence on time, on strategy and on budget. Our list of clients includes National Geographic, Sony Pictures, Mazda, Costco, MemorialCare Health System, Proctor & Gamble, Experian, Epson, Hyundai, Divx, Skull Base Institute, Kawasaki, AltusJets, Natrol, WinView Games, Advisys, Jackson National Life and many more. We enjoy meeting new people and look forward to hearing from you!
2018
Board Member
Jun 2018
Founded on the core values of integrity, stewardship, courage, and compassion, Pepperdine Graziadio Business School has been developing values-centered leaders who advance responsible business practice since 1969. Student-focused, experience-driven and globally oriented, the Graziadio School offers fully accredited MBA, master of science, bachelor’s completion, and non-degree executive business programs for business professionals, entrepreneurs, managers, and senior executives at all stages of their professional and personal development. Graziadio faculty foster an environment in which students master the leader within and discover their full potential. Our curriculum provides a deeper understanding of a student’s own values, so that in turn he or she may make decisions that better reflect their unique leadership style. The school views leadership as being applicable at all levels of an organization that requires management and stewardship of resources toward the accomplishment of stated objectives. What’s more, our programs are practical and relevant, so that a student may see immediate results in him or herself and apply them to successfully innovate and deliver solutions. Through faculty well versed in business issues as well as colleagues who share both diverse and similar work experience, students graduate a Pepperdine collaborative, global-oriented, and values-centered program better prepared to anticipate and lead change at all levels.
Center for Women in Leadership
Board Member
May 2018
2010
Board Member
Jun 2010
The Mural Music & Arts Project (MMAP) educates, empowers, and inspires youth through participation in the arts by offering year-round, youth development programs in East Palo Alto and in San Francisco. MMAP was founded in 2001 in East Palo Alto, employing local teens to design and create a mural for every school in the local school district. Since its inception, MMAP's youth artists have researched, planned, and installed a public arts legacy. These murals reflect themes of community, cooperation, equity, justice, environment, and local history. Active and enthusiastic support inspired MMAP to expand and diversify programming in 2005 to include arts education, Hip Hop music production, and dance. Today, MMAP offers six programs: the Teen Mural Program, the Graffiti Arts Project, History through Hip Hop, Health Education through Art, Public Arts Consulting, and In-School Electives.
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