Meet Our Coaches

TSNE's coaches exemplify our commitment to providing you with practical coaches grounded in the day-to-day realities of leading in today's nonprofit. Together they represent a continuum of experience and coaching preferences: from supporting the learning of emerging leaders and success of community-based organizations to assisting long-term leaders with succession planning or working on complex organizational challenges with you.

Margo Kelly is the head coach who will assist you in ensuring the right coaching match and that your coaching experience stays on track.

Margo Kelly
Head Coach

Margo Kelly who serves as head coach for TSNE’s Executive Coaching Program, has more than 30 years of experience in the non-profit sector. Until 2004 she was chief operating officer of a national non-profit organization that grew from $1 m to $118 m and from 30 to more than 200 staff during her tenure.

Her strengths are in organizational development and growth, performance-based management, developing collaborative teams, and hiring, mentoring, overseeing and developing staff. Her experience as a strategic and successful manager in a complex organization has contributed to her unique ability to understand the leadership and operational challenges faced by non-profit executives and to provide strategic and effective coaching support.

Since 2004, Margo has devoted most of her professional time to executive coaching. In addition to numerous private clients, she currently serves as a coach at Harvard’s Kennedy School in the Achieving Excellence Program and in the Boston Public Schools under the auspices of the District Management Council.

Cathy Fellenz

Cathy Fellenz is a certified coach and leadership consultant with over 30 years' experience in non-profit management. She coaches individuals – including dozens of non-profit executive directors – and consults with organizations on board development and leadership transitions.

Cathy has served as both interim executive director and transition consultant. Organizations Cathy has led include an area agency on aging, a community action agency, a rape crisis center, a United Way and YWCA. She has also served on the boards of directors and consulted to a broad range of organizations.

Cathy’s philosophy of managing change and thriving in transition, for both individuals and mission driven organizations, is focused on making choices and taking action based on core values.

Bob Greene

Bob Greene has coached numerous executives in large and small nonprofits during 15 years as an organization development consultant. He has supported leaders to meet difficult personnel, team and decision-making challenges.

Bob’s coaching emphasizes the human element in achieving organizational results. His coaching is also informed by many years as a staff person and active volunteer who has developed numerous programs. He has published several articles on non-profit organization development and diversity work, and he has a master's degree in Human Service Studies from Cornell University.

Nancy Jackson

Nancy Jackson draws on 15 years as a certified facilitator and 20 years as a founder and non-profit co-executive director in her coaching practice. She has extensive experience in executive transitions, working with founders, facilitating and implementing mergers, and using efficient and participatory methods for strategic planning.

Nancy’s style is energetic and friendly, and she is comfortable in complex problem-solving, difficult environments and among diverse audiences. Her particular expertise is working with new and/or young executive directors.

She strongly believes that lasting change takes place when people fully engage in their own problem solving yet have others with whom to gain insights and reflect.

Claudia Lach

Claudia Lach, M.A., M.S., a bilingual (English/Spanish) organizational development trainer, consultant and certified coach, works with organizations to facilitate the development of human capacity and organizational systems they need to fulfill their missions. Her work focuses on strategic planning, leadership development, conflict resolution and diversity initiatives with special attention to cultural diversity and intercultural communication.

As part of her coaching practice, Claudia is an efficacy/executive coach working with professionals of color in Fortune 500 companies to assist them in their professional and personal growth.

A former assistant dean at the International Business School at Brandeis University, Claudia works with individuals, groups and organizations to assist them in a process of self discovery that raises awareness, provides clarity and motivates them to achieve sustainable transformations.

Sheila Maith

Sheila Maith has more than 20 years of experience working for non-profit organizations, in philanthropy and in local and national government. She has served nonprofits as a board member, as a funder, and as an advocate for the community economic development field.

Sheila's strengths as a coach are in the areas of strategic management and alignment, creating high-performing staff teams and leadership development. She enjoys working with mission-driven organizations – and their leadership – that have the motivation and clarity of purpose to serve their customers and achieve results.

Madeline McNeely

As a founder of In-Balance Coaching, Madeline is a master-level coach, consultant, facilitator and trainer, with 20 years' experience serving clients from both the non-profit and corporate sectors. Areas of expertise include succession planning, executive transitions, leadership and organizational development, strategic planning, diversity coaching and training.

She has coached over 75 non-profit organizations and individual leaders. Non-profit clients include YouthBuild USA, Ariel Group, Citizen Schools, The Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery.

Michael Negron

Michael Negron brings over 20 years of diversified experiences into the non-profit sector. His direct experience with nonprofits has been in consulting and coaching services in various sectors, as interim executive director for a national membership association, and as a board member for several organizations, including United Way, Rotary International and several local agencies.

His consulting practice focuses on organizational development through executive transition management, succession management, executive coaching, emotional intelligence and resiliency assessments, and diversity, as well as financial management assessments. Michael has conducted over 300 coaching sessions of high potential talent and senior management.

His coaching approach is based on trust and the art of improving performance, and is supportive, action-oriented and provides a structure to self-explore and increase self-awareness: the foundation for emotional intelligence and sustainable change.

Sara Orozco

Sara Orozco has worked in the non-profit sector for over 20 years and draws upon her unique and diverse experience as an executive coach, psychologist and advocate to work with senior level managers and executives.

Using keen insight, interviews, assessments, research and coaching, she is able to create, plan, implement, evaluate and sustain organization-specific action plans designed to strengthen leadership skills that support its mission. Her strengths include improving staff performance, reinforcing organizational capability, and driving overall effectiveness, productivity and creativity with a focus on the quality and effectiveness of workplace relationships.

Sara’s interests include social justice, public policy, leadership development, conflict resolution, change management and diversity.