About
Welcome to Seven Focus
Jamie Villarreal-Bassett , Co-Founder and Executive Visionary
Jamie (she/her), is an experienced leader with eighteen (18) years of leadership experience, including more than seven (7) years leading equity, diversity, and inclusion work. As a Mexican American woman, Jamie has a proven track record of impactful contributions, driven leadership, and passion for ensuring team members feel included, honored, and uplifted regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, or other social identity markers. Her formal education in Sociology at Colorado College and a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership at Colorado State University provides a foundation for her life’s work to advance a more just, inclusive, diverse, and equitable experience for all.
She has set visions for, led, and empowered teams throughout her career providing a high standard of equity, inclusion, and diversity. Her personal and professional experiences have prepared her to excel in her 10+ year tenure in Denver Public Schools, most recently as the Director of Culturally Responsive Education and in her current role as the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Pinnacol Assurance. Jamie partners with multiple stakeholders to guarantee every single team member and community member, especially those who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and other marginalized identities, thrive, not by accident, but by design. Jamie has successfully guided DEI initiatives with Foundations, Boards, for-profits, non-profits, educators, leaders, and executives. Jamie is married and has two kids. Jamie enjoys spending time with her family and walking around her neighborhood when not at work.
Robert Franklin II, Co- Founder and Executive Educator
Robert (he/him), also known as Mr. RAWbert, has over 20 years experience as a practitioner in several arenas and industries. Robert has worked with community serving organizations throughout the nation in training, advocacy, program development, change management and change leadership, racial, gender, language and ability justice and equity. A youth-focused educator by trade, training and passion, Robert works to impact the lives of young people, their families and communities through advocacy, ally-ship and facilitated learning. Focused on creating new and inclusive opportunities for learning and engaging, Robert and his wife, Melissa, built MNMR, LLC to further their passions, merging entertaining performances and opportunities to learn through immersive storytelling – Talking Differences. Each Talking Difference experience, program and initiative had been designed to engage an audience, and in doing so, provide lasting, memorable, and tangible moments of brilliance.
Robert consults on change and opportunity efforts across the nation in several different industries, including with Federal, State and local governments, for- and not-for-profit, higher education, sports and community facing organizations. The work of his passions and talents involves challenging entire systems to realize the impacts of the differences that make difference on service, work and care of our communities. Robert guides with intentionality, creativity and strategic frameworks. Clients and mentees alike laud the impacts of Robert’s programs and interventions, where all can learn, engage, celebrate and take action in an effort to realize equity.
An award winning leader, keynote speaker, author, podcast host and coach, Robert delivers culturally responsive and intentionally inclusive strategies for leaders, employees and volunteers across the world. If asked, Robert would say the work he’s most proud of has yet to be completed, though he often tells the story about how a life and a family was saved due to a learning program he had the privilege to lead.