Fabiola DeCaratachea, Principal
Fabiola DeCaratachea is an executive and strategic advisor with over 23 years of experience designing and implementing large-scale initiatives that advance health, safety, and quality of life for historically disenfranchised communities. As the Principal of Los Seis LLC, she provides tailored strategic consulting, leadership coaching, and organizational alignment for social justice entities and non-profits dedicated to community empowerment.
Fabiola’s career is defined by her ability to bridge technical, operational requirements with grassroots organizing principles. Throughout her leadership roles—including overseeing statewide healthcare outreach grants with budgets exceeding $48 million and leading regional energy efficiency programs for income-qualified households—she has built robust institutional capacity while keeping community voices at the center. Her experience spans key leadership positions at the Dolores Huerta Foundation, Richard Heath & Associates, and The Women’s Foundation of California.
Through Los Seis, Fabiola acts as a dedicated partner to a select group of organizations each year, helping social justice leaders fortify their internal infrastructure, build sustainable funding models, and maximize their advocacy impact. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Mount Holyoke College and serves as Board Co-Chair for the Women's Foundation California.
Our Team
Lisa Watson, Senior Consultant
Lisa Watson is a strategist, facilitator, and organizational development consultant who helps nonprofits, public agencies, foundations, and community partnerships turn complex challenges into clear strategies and practical action. Her work focuses on strategic planning, organizational development, capacity building, evaluation, community engagement, and implementation support.
Lisa has developed extensive executive and consulting experience through leadership roles with the Inland Empire Community Collaborative, Social Entrepreneurs, Inc., First 5 Kings County, and Kings Community Action Organization. Most recently, she served as Chief Program Officer for the Inland Empire Community Collaborative, where she led capacity-building, fiscal sponsorship, training, and community-focused initiatives. During more than a decade with Social Entrepreneurs, Inc., she guided strategic planning, evaluation, organizational development, and systems-change projects for government agencies, nonprofits, and cross-sector partnerships. As Executive Director of First 5 Kings County, she oversaw a $4.5 million public investment portfolio and worked alongside community partners to strengthen services and outcomes for children and families.
Lisa’s community leadership includes board and officer service supporting public education, child abuse prevention, domestic violence services, homelessness response, and regional health. She has also volunteered as a consultant through 501 Commons, helping nonprofit organizations with strategic planning, organizational assessment, capacity building, and volunteer management.
Lisa holds a master’s degree in Leadership and Organizational Studies from Fresno Pacific University and a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from California State University, Sacramento. Based in Seattle, her work is grounded in equity, strengthened by curiosity, and guided by a commitment to clarity, inclusion, and meaningful results.
Daniel Rivas, Consulting Partner
Daniel Rivas is a healthcare executive and strategist with more than
20 years of experience helping healthcare organizations, public
agencies, and community partners turn complex health and policy
priorities into strategies that work in the communities they serve.
His experience spans managed care, public health, academic medicine,
cancer prevention and research, health equity, and community and
government engagement. He has held leadership roles with UC Irvine
Health, Blue Shield of California, and Covered California, leading
work that has included regional engagement strategies, community
investment and grant portfolios, cross-sector partnerships, and the
infrastructure needed to connect community insight with organizational decision-making.
Daniel approaches community engagement as an organizational and
business function, not simply an outreach activity. His work focuses
on building the partnerships, governance structures, workflows, and
accountability that allow organizations to move from good intentions
to durable impact. He is particularly effective at working across
organizational boundaries, bringing together health plans, health
systems, government agencies, community-based organizations, federally qualified health centers, researchers, and civic leaders around shared priorities. His perspective is also shaped by growing up in an immigrant family in Los Angeles, where navigating healthcare and public systems was often a family responsibility. That experience taught him early how differently a system can look from the inside than it feels to the people trying to navigate it. Today, that perspective informs how he approaches strategy: understand the institution, understand the lived experience of the people it serves, and build practical connections
between the two.
Daniel holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Organizational
Leadership. He brings clients a combination of executive strategy,
community credibility, and real-world implementation experience, with
a focus on building organizational capability that lasts beyond any
single initiative.
Val LiHang, Consulting Partner
Val LiHang Jacobo is a senior strategist, systems builder, and trusted advisor. With more than 30 years of experience across healthcare, public-sector systems, community development, and organizational leadership, Val is often brought into complex environments where the challenge is clear, but the path forward is not. She helps leaders make sense of complexity, identify what matters most, and translate strategy into practical action.
Her expertise spans health and data equity, population health, healthcare innovation, governance, policy implementation, community engagement, and cross-sector partnership development. She is particularly skilled at connecting perspectives that do not always sit at the same table—executive leadership, operations, data and technology, policy, and the communities ultimately affected by organizational decisions.
Grounded in Indigenous values and relationship-centered leadership, Val brings a distinctive approach to systems change: pairing rigorous strategy with cultural intelligence, community knowledge, and an understanding of how decisions translate into real-world impact.
Whether advising an emerging organization, strengthening an established enterprise, or helping leaders navigate a new policy, data, or community challenge, Val’s role is consistent: create clarity, build trust, and move meaningful ideas into action.
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