Powering
big pursuits
We transform big ideas into solutions that change our world.
For nearly 20 years, our solutions have
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We are strategic partners to highly effective leaders at influential organizations.
We are trusted advisors to executives seeking new pathways to create sustainable impact.
We are sage counselors to nonprofit decision-makers navigating challenging and uncertain times.
Case Studies
Generating Global Economic Opportunities
Apollo
Opportunity
Apollo Global Management, a trillion-dollar alternative investment firm, wanted to establish a platform to create broader participation in the global economy. Wilbron partnered with Apollo to develop a strategy to impact communities around the world.
Solution
With our support, the Apollo Opportunity Foundation was born. Wilbron worked with Apollo to raise $100M to support their first-ever corporate foundation mission. Now, we are on a mission to grant 100% of the money to global economic causes in the next 10 years.
Creating a Generation of Problem Solvers
Apple
Opportunity
Apple sought to increase its relevance in the education sector. Wilbron collaborated with Apple to create a generation of problem solvers to change our world. To do this, we needed to change how classrooms are designed.
Solution
Our work set off a chain of events — and innovations — that has resulted in the pursuit to create a new campus of innovation. This new campus concept promises to create a generation of problem solvers who uses Apple’s technology to improve the world.
Designing the Classrooms of the Future
Ed Farm
Opportunity
Classrooms haven’t changed much since agrarian societies were commonplace. Now that we are in the Age of Technology, Apple saw a need to revolutionize classrooms.
Solution
In partnership with Apple, Wilbron championed the creation of Ed Farm to design the Classroom of the Future. These classrooms are being installed in schools across Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia and rural communities across the South.
Reimagining Healthcare
Yale University
Opportunity
In 1924, Yale University received a transformative gift from the Rockefeller Foundation to establish the first-ever school of nursing on a college campus. As our world experiences more frequent climate crises and countries become more isolated, Yale challenged Wilbron to reimagine nurse education for the world that awaits us.
Solution
In partnership with Yale University, Wilbron developed narratives to make the case that global investments be made to reinvent systems designed to deploy critical medical resources to people during times of crisis. Our research-centric case is a vital component of the university’s endowment expansion efforts.
Changing the Alternative investment industry
AltFinance
Opportunity
Economies shift all the time, demanding continuous innovation from the investment industry. Alternative investment funds must therefore recruit and prepare the world's top talent to meet these fast-paced advances. That's why Oaktree Capital Management, Ares Management, and Apollo Global Management partnered to create a $100M nonprofit called AltFinance.
Solution
Designed to reach and prepare often overlooked talent for success in finance, Wilbron championed AltFinance’s growth. Now multiple cohorts in, AltFinance has expanded its partnerships to include Goldman Sachs and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Developing an Investment Engine for Underestimated Founders
BronzeValley
Opportunity
When Alabama Power – a Southern Company – saw a need for investment in the scalable development of startup founders, it turned to Wilbron. Recognizing that 98% of under-resourced Alabama startups never grow beyond their founders, Wilbron drove the creation of a capital and accelerator engine to change that.
Solution
Wilbron's work resulted in Bronze Valley, named for Birmingham's Jones Valley, a region in Alabama rich with dark red minerals. Fueled by an initial $50K gift, the organization has since invested more than $20M to create a portfolio of founders who sell their companies for an average of $40M each.
Doubling Representation in Tech
Karat
Opportunity
Technology companies benefit from having access to top talent which, in turn, drives innovation that impacts all of our lives. However, Karat, a technology company that administers technical interviews, discovered that there was a lot of untapped brilliance.
Solution
Wilbron envisioned a solution with generational impact – a campaign to double the number of Black software engineers in the industry over the next ten years. We call it Brilliant Black Minds, and it's a community of software engineers created in partnership with Serena Williams, the former tennis champion who is now an advocate for career access.
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Our approach
to Challenges
Our approach to challenges provides the leaders we serve with a level of predictability while navigating unpredictable times.
Wilbron’s process has powered world-changing solutions.
Research & Process
Wilbron gathers insights and research to support the alignment of priorities, issues, and needs that must be addressed.
Interviews & Insights
Wilbron develops Insights Reports — and briefs key leaders — to prepare your organization for change.
Change Management
Wilbron finalizes plans, priorities, and opportunities to be addressed, and designs a roadmap that helps to set expectations and guide execution.
Activating Priorities
Wilbron finalizes plans, priorities and opportunities to be addressed, and designs a roadmap expectations and execution.
Our approach
to Challenges
Our approach to challenges provides the leaders we serve with a level of predictability while navigating unpredictable times.
Wilbron’s process has powered world-changing solutions.
Research & Process
Wilbron conducts secondary research to provide broader context around the challenges your organization faces and the communities it serves.
Interviews & Insights
Wilbron gathered insights and research to support the alignment of priorities, issues, and needs that must be addressed.
Change Management
Wilbron develop Insights Reports — and brief key leaders — to prepare your organization for change.
Activating Priorities
Wilbron finalizes plans, priorities and opportunities to be addressed, and designs a roadmap expectations and execution.