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Hamzah Sarwar, Global Social Impact & Partnerships Director, Reckitt
“The Lebec team brings expertise to the innovative finance and philanthropy space that is very hard to find. With deep insights across the capital spectrum, paired with a successful track record in the entrepreneurial, asset management, and philanthropy ecosystem and highly creative thinking and an influential global network, Alix Lebec, Julia Wilkinson, Hannah Kovich, Rafia Qureshi, and the entire LEBEC team helped us reimagine how we could optimize Reckitt’s impact investing and philanthropic strategy. This includes how we could best add value for all of our stakeholders. Diving into our existing financial assets and impact strategy, Lebec delivered a highly innovative roadmap for Reckitt to consider for its next chapter of growth—one that will influence how we can accelerate our efforts towards creating a more sustainable global economy. The team’s work ethic, collaborative spirit, professionalism, and expertise was invaluable to our efforts. We highly recommend Lebec to other corporations and key stakeholders eager for new ideas and ways to create transformational value and change.”
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Stacey Boyd, Stacey Boyd, Founder & CEO, Olivela
“Alix and the Lebec team offer invaluable creativity, strategic insight, and a deep understanding of how philanthropy and various asset classes can be leveraged to address global challenges. They are also an excellent thought partner and catalyst for building enduring relationships. Their partnership helped Olivela strategically expand its ecosystem of stakeholders, including new collaborators such as The CLEO Institute and José Andrés Group, among many others. Together, Lebec and Olivela inspired discussions with organizations across the capital continuum focused on mutual value and transformational impact. Lebec’s approach was an excellent match for Olivela, a company reshaping how giving back is embedded within business models and lifestyles, and in a dynamic industry like luxury fashion.”
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Gary White, CEO & Co-Founder, Water.org & WaterEquity
"Over the past decade, Alix has played a vital and instrumental role in enabling Water.org and WaterEquity to accelerate progress towards solving the global water crisis. An innovative, results-driven entrepreneur and strategic thinker, Alix is relentless in challenging the status quo, and putting her talent to work to help unleash large-scale social impact. She has a remarkable ability to inspire and catalyze partnerships among diverse stakeholders including corporations, foundations, and non-profits that bring visionary ideas to life. Her leadership, tenacity, empathy, creativity, and expertise have propelled our efforts forward and make Alix a tremendous partner in achieving big goals. "
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Emily Friedman, Head of Business Impact, Global Business Coalition for Education
“Alix Lebec and her incredible team have been an immense help to our organization and a joy to work with. Their enthusiasm, dedication, passion and expertise helped to refine our team’s vision and strategy and led to the creation of impactful tools and resources for our partners. The team’s knowledge of sustainable finance and ESG complemented our work in social impact and global education, and their team of advisors blended seamlessly into our own. It is hard to find an external group as committed to a project as an internal team and we found that with Lebec. We look forward to continuing to build on our work together- integrating investment in education into corporate ESG strategies to create shared value in business and society. “
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Scott McDonald, Chief External Affairs Officer, Root Capital
“We engaged the Lebec team to work with us on better equipping Root Capital's staff to be able to tell our organization's story and reflect a multifaceted value proposition for an ecosystem of varied external stakeholders. They collaborated with us on stakeholder segmentation and development of relevant key messages for these audiences. The team's knowledge of, and expertise around, how social enterprises are formed and evolve, how they are capitalized and their on-going needs meant they were able to quickly understand our business model and help us map out how and where Root Capital should emphasize our innovation and impact at the intersection of agriculture, gender, climate, and youth. Working with a full-service team that had impact investing, philanthropy, storytelling, marketing, and creative expertise was incredibly efficient and effective. The Lebec team's approach meant they felt like an extension of Root Capital's own internal functions and teams, and I would highly recommend working with them.”
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Romie Chaudhari, CEO & Managing Principal, Chiron Investments- Romie Chaudhari Family Foundation
"Alix’s passion, extensive expertise, and deep understanding of the philanthropic, impact investing, and social entrepreneurial ecosystem helped shape a highly impactful strategy at the Chaudhari Family Foundation. Her partnership was invaluable in enabling us to amplify and meet our impact objectives. Her strategic counsel and partnership paved the way for our first impact investment in WaterEquity’s $50M water and sanitation fund. Moreover, Alix is a wonderful partner to work with. We are very excited to see what Lebec will achieve under her leadership."
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Marilia Bezerra, Chief Programme Officer, IKEA Foundation
“It has been an absolute pleasure working with Alix over the past decade to forge and catalyze innovative and highly impactful partnerships among foundations, corporations, and non-profits to revolutionize the world of philanthropy and impact investing. Alix has an incredible talent and ability to see the bigger picture and creatively bring together different stakeholders to unleash systems change. She is a joy to work with, and a great team leader and phenomenal partner to have on your philanthropic and impact investing journey.”
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Yasmina Zaidman, Chief Development & Partnerships Officer, Acumen
“What made Lebec a particularly valuable partner to our efforts was their ability to immediately understand our model and create effective ways for Acumen to reach new audiences. The team was instrumental in developing a creative and relevant value proposition for our philanthropic audiences, alongside highly visual marketing assets. Lebec brings a unique and much-needed perspective on the global economy and how diverse stakeholders can come together to move more capital where it’s needed. Their expertise opened new doors for us and created opportunities for Acumen that we would not have identified otherwise. The Lebec team immersed themselves in our work and quickly became an extension of our team. We highly recommend working with them.“
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Felix Brooks-Church, Co-Founder & CEO, Sanku
“Sanku had the privilege of collaborating with Lebec’s exceptional women-led team in 2023 and 2024—an experience that has been uniquely enriching. Lebec’s extensive expertise in the philanthropic sector has empowered our team, equipping us with the skills and confidence needed to grow as an organization. The Lebec team played a pivotal role in our strategic refresh, which included refining our value proposition to position Sanku in today’s global philanthropic landscape; developing our fundraising strategy to accomplish immediate and long-term organizational and impact goals; and helping us activate that strategy through enhanced donor management and the identification and facilitation of key relationships that resulted in new partnerships and support for Sanku. Lebec’s consistent guidance and thought partnership throughout this process was invaluable. Thanks to this collaboration, we are successfully moving towards a more sustainable position, achieving significant outcomes with greater efficiency.”