Achieving Excellence Coaches - 11th class

Santiago Bunce is the Principal and a Performance and Emergence Coach at Secoya Strategies with expertise in facilitation, team building, executive coaching, strategic planning, and network building.

For fifteen years Santiago has provided facilitation, consulting, and coaching services to more than 180 nonprofits, foundations, and social enterprises from a diverse set of backgrounds and communities throughout North America, Latin America, and Europe. Santiago has worked with entities focused on community development, civic engagement, economic development, gender equity, education, food sustainability, health, climate resilience, and financial literacy, among others. These organizations have served vulnerable populations, municipal and county residents, national memberships, and international customer bases. Services provided have included meeting and retreat facilitation, executive coaching, strategic planning, design, and implementation, performance- and emergence-driven coaching, leadership and management coaching, program design and evaluation, and guiding teams through culture and organizational change.  

Santiago has a master’s degree in Nonprofit Management and International Economics and Development and a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Theology. He also has formal training in multiple frameworks including Performance-Driven Change, Facilitative Leadership, Collective Impact, Human-Centered Design, Results-Based Leadership, and Asset-Based Community Development. Santiago is fluent in both English and Spanish.

Jill Fioravanti is a consultant based in the Washington, DC area. She works closely with staff and senior management teams, Boards of Directors and their stakeholders to facilitate succession and sustainability planning, program development, process improvement, participatory decision-making and strategic planning efforts. In addition to serving as a coach to senior executives and senior leadership teams, Jill also conducts management and organizational assessments and supports nonprofits with executive searches.

To her consulting practice, Jill brings 10 years of expertise via several senior-level positions held from 2002-2012 at the Cabrillo Economic Development Corporation, a nationally recognized affordable housing organization in Ventura, CA. Responsibilities included launching the Community Building and Neighborhood Revitalization Department, establishing a non-profit affiliate that became CDFI-certified, and overseeing research, corporate grant writing, marketing and communications. She has served on several non-profit boards, including eight years as a Commissioner with the Housing Authority of the City of San Buenaventura, and is currently on the Board of the Interfaith Families Project. She is also a NeighborWorks Training Institute faculty member.

Jill holds a Bachelors in Psychology with a Minor in Urban Studies from Stanford University, completed the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs, and received a Master’s in Business Administration with top honors from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. She and her husband have three daughters ages 14, 12 and 9, who keep her on her toes.
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Roger Lewis is the principal coach/consultant of Roger Lewis & Associates based out of Boulder, CO. Since 2012, Roger has been working with community development leaders across the country in urban and rural areas and in a range of fields including housing development and finance, homeownership services, asset management, urban agriculture, homeless services, community land trusts, Habitats, lending (CDFIs), economic development, water supply, and regional associations. Roger has been coaching with the NWA Sustainable Business Initiative since 2013 and Achieving Excellence/Harvard since 2020.  In 2015 Roger worked with Virginia CDC to develop and coach the award-winning program, Mission Elevation (formerly Virginia Nonprofit Sustainability Challenge). 

Roger works with leaders seeking to make changes to further their institution and enhance their personal and team capacity.  Roger provides executive coaching, training, and consulting services including team coaching, training, facilitator, strategic advisor, interim CEO, and real estate technical advisor.

Roger has over 30 years of professional experience in innovative housing and community development initiatives. Roger’s work is informed by his broad experience which includes working in a family business, rural community development work overseas in the Peace Corps, serving as a volunteer first-staff at an inner-city nonprofit, and leading a national organization.  

Roger completed the NeighborWorks America Achieving Excellence Program (AE) in 2012, and has worked with AE peers and coaching mentor, Mark Levine, since 2010.  Roger earned his BS in Management Engineering from the University of Vermont. Roger and his wife have 3 adult children.

Sara Orozco is a bilingual, bi-cultural independent consultant, executive coach, and licensed psychologist with over 25 years of experience working in the nonprofit sector, primarily in leadership development. She is deeply committed to racial justice and social equity and works, in partnership with her clients, to identify goals, outcomes, and strategies that advance and support equity, diversity, and inclusion within organizations and communities. Sara has served as a team coach for NeighborWorks America’s Achieving Excellence Program (AEP) and Excellence in Governance Program (EIG) since 2015. In her spare time, she hones her storytelling skills and has performed in several Moth events in Massachusetts. She lives in Boston with her wife, dog, and twin sons when they are home from college.

Doris Roach has a dynamic background as an attorney, executive coach, consultant, and higher education instructor with 24 years’ experience serving organizations and individuals in the business, nonprofit and public sectors. After 10 years practicing business law as a senior attorney with a major Fortune 500 Company, Doris left the legal profession to follow her passion for helping individuals and organizations realize their potential for growth and transformation.  She brings to her coaching expertise a consulting portfolio that includes strategic planning, board development, leadership development, and team building services to diverse organizations in business, community development, education, government, healthcare, housing, human services, philanthropy and social justice advocacy.  

In addition to her coaching and consulting practice, she has been a senior lecturer at Northeastern University College of Professional Studies where she taught courses on managing human resources and organizational behavior.  She has served as a coach with NeighborWorks Excellence in Governance and Sustainable Business Initiative programs and Harvard University Business School Executive Education programs.  Doris is the proud aunt of 2 nieces and 1 nephew and when not coaching and consulting, can be found in her garden (weather permitting) and/or studio creating works of art.