Denise B. Lawrence

I Am A Black Woman Business Owner

Denise spent the first 15 years of her career as a newspaper journalist covering cities across the nation, the White House and Congress before deciding to expand her nonprofit consulting practice from part-time to full-time. Today, that experience fuels her work in helping executives effectively and strategically communicate to advance their business landscape.

Denise advises and coaches black business founders – serving as both a sounding board, accountability partner, and strategist. She has led mastermind groups and verticals to a captured audience of over 1,400 business owners. While she is an industry generalist, Denise has most recently coached and provided strategic services in manufacturing and supply chain logistics, technology, online product development and retail, architecture and construction, entertainment, human resource management, healthcare, publishing, management consulting, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial real estate.

Denise owns a nonprofit consulting practice, the first global nonprofit consulting franchise operation, the first single parent dating app and community, an education academy, and serves in an advisory capacity for of an online apparel company, a health research organization, and a textile company.

Denise has a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Florida A&M University and a Master of Divinity from Liberty University. She is a servant leader as a pastor and global ministry leader with a focus on projects in the U.S., Haiti, Nigeria, and Rwanda.