Jeri Royce serves as President & CEO for Esperança.  Jeri is an accomplished leader with a distinguished career leading operational, business development, program development/management and human resource functions. With over 25 years of experience in local and national nonprofit organizations, she has a successful track record of building a leading strong partnerships and highly successful teams . Having founded her own consulting firm, 3P-Leadership, Jeri specializes in leadership development offering training programs, team-building, individual/group coaching services and Interim Executive Director/CEO Services. Jeri is a capacity-building consultant in the Virginia Piper Trust ATLAS and Good Governance programs and has previously served as Interim ED for Lead for Good, Arizona Public Health Association and Arizona Asthma Coalition. She

Outside of Esperança, Jeri inspires hope in the Valley by serving as a board member for the Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits and a long-time mentor to an at-risk teen with New Pathways for Youth. She was selected for the prestigious Virginia Piper Fellowship class in 2022 and received the Most Admired Leaders Award from the Phoenix Business Journal in 2021. of 2022.