Flynn Lebus co-leads FSG’s gender equity practice and is a senior leader in FSG’s global health and global development practices. She is passionate about contributing to a fairer and more equitable society for all, particularly boosting equitable health outcomes and economic empowerment.
Flynn is an adviser and senior strategy project manager focused on delivering high-quality, high-impact multi-year strategy and strategic evaluation projects for individual teams and whole organizations. She brings experience working with the C-suite and senior management of multi-national companies (e.g., Discovery Health Insurance), philanthropic foundations (e.g., Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), multi-laterals (e.g., World Bank, UNICEF, WHO, Gavi Alliance), nonprofits (e.g., Medicines for Malaria Venture, Movember), and impact investing entities (e.g., Catalytic Capital Consortium, funded by MacArthur, Rockefeller, and Omidyar Network). She has experience in complex, multi-stakeholder partnerships and alliances and believes through such partnerships we can achieve transformational change.
Flynn has been a public speaker; she has authored position papers and blogs (e.g., Investing in Women: A Powerful Approach for Investing in India); and she co-authored with clinical R&D scientists a technical scientific paper to better include the needs of pregnant women in clinical R&D, “Re-orienting anti-malarial drug development to better serve pregnant women,” published in the Malaria Journal.
Before FSG
Prior to FSG, Flynn was a management consultant at Accenture, mostly in the Health and Public Sector business, working on various things, including hospital transformation strategies, business case development for global radiology technology solutions and pharmacy process improvement. She spent nine months working in Tanzania with Accenture Development Partnerships on a series of projects focused on strategic projects within the agriculture sector. Her clients included SAGCOT (Southern Agriculture Growth Corridor of Tanzania), The Gatsby Foundation, USAID and FAO. Prior to Accenture, Flynn worked for a cancer charity and a political think tank in London and a museum company in Chengdu, China.
Education
- The University of Cambridge, BA in Social and Political Sciences
Languages
- Conversational French
On Working At FSG
Working on the ground in Africa brought me face-to-face with the challenges for sustainable global development and the stark reality of the scale of unmet social needs—and then I read Porter and Kramer’s paper “Creating Shared Value” and I knew what I wanted to do, work with FSG. Helping corporate clients understand that their business can bring prosperity to society through delivering products and services to those that need them most as part of their core growth strategy empowers citizens as consumers, rather than beneficiaries of philanthropic gestures, and the results are far further reaching and long-lasting. I am humbled by the fact I have the opportunity to work with such an incredible team of driven people at FSG to deliver together with our forward thinking clients, innovative and cutting-edge strategies to realize business success through social good. I am excited about the opportunities FSG’s approach will continue to raise and the social impact we can create going forward.
