In her role as the first-ever Chief Purpose Officer for Omnicom and the TBWA Network, Denise is leading some of the biggest brands in the world to actuate their business case for purpose, as it pertains to increased brand value, competitive advantage, and creating an engine for growth and innovation. Using sustainability, ESG, DE&I, and stakeholder connectivity to drive 21st-Century value creation, Denise is focusing on a scalable, differentiated, and business goals oriented approach, while leading with an organization’s authenticity and values. In this capacity, Denise is helping companies develop and connect their brands to purpose and sustainability, while using these unifying strategic levers to ignite the entire stakeholder system. Omnicom TBWA has worked with Fortune 500 and world-class brands around the globe, such as Apple, PepsiCo, Sephora, Disney, Google, Conservation International, Principal Financial Group, Intuit, and the GRAMMYs.Denise is now leading Omnicom’s first end-to-end purpose, sustainability and ESG offering, uniting talent around the globe as multi-disciplinary business partners to Omnicom’s largest clients and built to serve the new realities and challenges of modern Stakeholder Capitalism. This purpose collective will connect brands with leading experts in CSR, ESG, Sustainability, DEI, SDGs and Climate Change. Denise also serves on Omnicom’s Sustainability Committee, as Omnicom is the largest publicly traded multinational holding company in advertising and communications.

Denise Roberson is the CEO of Jadi Communications (Jadi), a global leader in advertising, marketing and strategic services. She is also an emerging thought leader on the role of purpose and sustainability as a core element of global competitive strategy in building brand value. Jadi has represented a broad range of clients, including a number of Fortune 500 and world-class brands such as National Geographic, Mazda Motor Corporation, Costco, Sony Pictures, American Tours International, NASA/Skull Base Institute, Procter & Gamble, and MemorialCare Health System. Denise is a trusted academic and professional speaker, moderator for top-tier events, and most recently became a Marketing Professor for Pepperdine Graziadio Business School’s Executive MBA program.

The Pepperdine Graziadio Board is a group of prominent business leaders who provide advice and counsel on the direction of the school and its program, through rich experience and forward thinking strategies, helping to create 'Best FOR the World Leaders',

Professor for Presidents and Key Executives MBA (PKE)

The Center for Women in Leadership is building confidence and instilling the strongest sense of competency and readiness for the challenges and rewards of leadership for women around the world, through mentorship, industry engagement, and research on gender diversity.

The Mural, Music and Arts Project, a thriving community development organization, collaborates with Stanford University to connect the arts to positive youth outcomes.

Kindred is an executive network built to prepare leaders for the future of socially responsible business and purpose as a core business driver.Kindred’s members include leaders from companies such as TBWA, B Lab, Chobani, Facebook, HBO, LinkedIn, Macy's, Salesforce, Sephora, Spotify, Twitter, Verizon, The Washington Post, and Wells Fargo.

Marvel Innovations is a next-generation medical device company partnered with NASA/JPL to create the next-generation evolution of 3D/HD laparoscopic instruments and the surrounding IP for 3D/HD miniaturization across multiple verticals.