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About Aether Impact
Aether is the "fifth element" — the elusive element that brings the others together into a whole.
Aether Impact embodies that same idea: bringing what's missing to fill critical gaps, while integrating the expertise, people and resources already in place to transform organizational intent into results.
We know that positive impact requires more than good intentions. It requires the strategy, structures, engagement, accountability, and sustained management to turn ideas into results. Aether Impact combines advisory thinking with senior leadership and operational implementation experience to build the strategies and the systems that make impact real.
Our Terrain
A solid Methodology like our Impact Enablement Lifecycle is important to stepping in to support successful impact efforts, but so is knowing the environment in which we are working.
Aether's domain expertise has been developed across a variety of areas, providing a holistic lens on how market, political, geographic, and other factors play into impact growth.
Lisa Bevacqua, Founder & Managing Director
As a global sustainable business executive and consultant, I’ve spent more than 25 years turning mission-driven ideas into strategies, programs and measurable results for some of the world’s biggest companies. My work has spanned in-house leadership and consulting roles across food and agricultural manufacturing, sustainability and ESG, nonprofit leadership, standards and certification, and global supply chain assurance.
Across these roles, I’ve built supplier assurance systems, sustainability strategies, ESG reporting programs, membership initiatives, conferences, and cross-functional partnerships at significant scale. At Amway/Nutrilite, I managed a $10 million agricultural operation and built a global sustainable supplier assurance program spanning 34 countries. At NSF, I built its global ESG consulting strategy and internal program architecture. At the Climate Collaborative, my programming led to over 700 committed companies in three years. My consulting clients and collaborations have included McDonald’s global supplier ESG reporting and product circularity standards developed in partnership with Amazon and WRAP. As a business executive, I’ve more than doubled operating income and profit margins, launched office and programs to triple membership, and generated immediate revenue growth of 20% or more through client and partnership development.
I’ve spent extensive time navigating global business environments, particularly in Latin America and Western Europe. Across that experience, I’ve seen that mission-driven impact can scale profitably when strategy is translated into practical systems, integrated into operations, and actively managed.
It’s become my own mission to take this experience and transform the impact capabilities of my clients, especially those experiencing bandwidth or expertise gaps.