John Roberson, Iii Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

As VP of External Relations at LeadersUp, I create transformative opportunities for underserved communities by advancing economic mobility for BIPOC young adults. I lead Stakeholder Engagement and Marketing, aligning strategies to enhance employer engagement, strengthen workforce development, and foster public-private collaboration.I spearhead the expansion of the Evolve Network, providing technical assistance to workforce partners, educational institutions, and employers and connecting BIPOC youth with high-demand career pathways. I build strategic relationships with corporate, community, and government partners to advance talent pipelines and economic mobility.Through key partnerships, I lead initiatives that support justice-involved individuals and young adults, aligning workforce efforts with employer needs. I also oversee marketing strategies that amplify LeadersUp’s impact and position us as a thought leader in workforce innovation.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Business Planning And LeadershipManage the planning process, ensuring coordination with executive leadership priorities, as well as department priorities and alignment of resources.Business ProcessEstablish a Rhythm of the Business for the leadership team to continually driving alignment and execution of the core business priorities. Coordinate with teams across the organization to understand and align on business initiatives. Drive Strategic IntegrationsDrive strategic initiatives and provide thought leadership. Identify issues that impede success and provide solutions/recommendations. Identify opportunities to create cross group collaboration and synergies. Orchestrate team design conversation and facilitate successful implementation of organizational plans. Utilize external and internal networks to enhance the impact and value of all team’s contributions to the organization’s strategic vision and goals.CultureBe part of the team and help to make it a great place to work. Help to facilitate growth and the culture of our teamTeam ManagementWork with the President and CEO’s administrative team to ensure time, resources, calendars, and budgets are contributing to the organization’s strategic goals.Special ProjectsDrive high-impact cross-team projects as needed to meet the changing business environment and ensure the team is achieving commitments. Successful project management, including work with external stakeholders and teams, on strategic efforts that require hands-on experience across multiple functional disciplines and business organizations.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

My responsibilities include managing all the digital platforms and monitoring performance, developing viral messaging strategies and campaigns, and engaging communities to create opportunity.

Greater Los Angeles Area

My key responsibilities included driving implementation of strategy for client-partners, managing external contractors and digital mediaAccomplishments:Designed a process improvement and client management system for Los Angeles County Probation, The California Community Foundation's BLOOM Initiative, and several community based organizations tasked with reducing recidivism among Black males in South Los Angeles.Created an interactive experience for Southern California Grant Makers providing 25 local philanthropic leaders a first-hand look at how their strategic investments are developing initiatives to break the school-to-prison pipeline. Completed a landscape analysis of the Los Angeles River to measure the potential engagement level between local stakeholders focused on health issues as it relates to revitalization projects along the river and youth based organization serving the same geo-specific region.Coordinated the City of Los Angeles's My Brother's Keeper Roundtable and Listening session, an interactive experience for senior White House officials, civic and business leaders from across California focused on early childhood education, early literacy, school discipline reform, criminal justice and violent crime interaction career pathways.Provided digital media strategy to the office of Long Beach City Councilmember Rex Richardson.Generated digital content and graphics to support organizational and client-specific campaigns, deliverables and SMART goals.

Greater Los Angeles Area

My responsibilities included developing strategic communications to shape Los Angeles County (LAC) and California State level policy, researching and producing policy briefs impacting two million youth across LAC, and engaging state-wide networks to promote school based healthcare centers and early childhood education.Accomplishments:Designed the organizational infrastructure to track, monitor, and analyze performance and engagement across digital channels focused on health, literacy, STEAM and leadership development.Produced policy briefs to establish a state-wide funding mechanism for school-based health and wellness centers; state and county call for strategic invested in early care and education.Worked directly with California State and Los Angeles County/City policy makers Presented policy research to 19 members of the Los Angeles County School Health Center (SHC) Policy Roundtable and school districts

Los Angeles, Ca

The Mission of CRCD is to better sustain, coordinate, and improve local planning, development, and community services that address the needs of low-income residents and small businesses in South Los Angeles. Accomplishments:Established the Arts & Culture Incorporating and Advisory Boards tasked to stimulate the preservation of culturally iconic monuments and encourage economic development opportunities on Central Avenue in South Los Angeles.Redrafted the Vernon-Central Collaborative Strategic Vision plan implemented to monitor, track, and analyze community-focused initiatives in South Los Angeles.Researched issue areas focused on youth development, public safety, health, affordable housing, economic development and civic infrastructure. Designed an email campaign to provide internal and external updates.Co-developed the logistical and marketing strategy for the Chaka-Khan Foundation and Damon John’s national No Excuses Initiative

Los Angeles, Ca

The mission of the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy is to improve the quality of life for people and their communities, here and abroad.Accomplishments:Designed a system to collect and measure key performance metrics supporting departmental strategic communications goalsDrafted and implemented updates for website content and blog postPhotographed and published marketing briefs for more than 20 faculty research presentations, policy panels, and student events

Atlanta, Ga

The Office of Student Leadership & Service engages students in meaningful leadership development and service-learning experiences.Accomplishments:Managed a youth driven leadership team of 15 peer leadership consultants with extensive experience in student organization development, growth, and programming supporting workshops for students organizations and groups.Facilitated the coordination of 6 leadership and training certificate granting workshops for 1,300 first-year students. Workshops supported students in developing leadership skills, widening their social networks, and meeting diverse group of friends.Fostered a culture to support ethical leaders through meaningful leadership development and service-learning experiences centered around the core values of life-long learning, integrity, inter-culturalism, and active citizenship

Master Of Public Policy, Public Policy, 3.52

Activities and Societies: Internal Customer Satisfaction Assessment (ICS) & Cultural Transformation Success for the City of Coachella, CA.

Ba, Environmental Studies

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.As a student at Emory and Oxford, I was involved in Residence Life resident.