Driven by Purpose — A Platform for Inclusive and Sustainable Development
Nexus for Social Advancement is a social enterprise that integrates knowledge, creativity, and collaboration to transform social realities. More than a consulting firm, we are a social innovation ecosystem dedicated to designing sustainable solutions with collective impact.
With over 22 years of international experience across cooperation, the private sector, government, and NGOs, our team integrates applied research, results-based management, and creative methodologies that empower communities and strengthen institutional capacities.
Driven by the Nexus Impact Lab—our strategic engine—we activate multisectoral partnerships, co-create transformative strategies, mobilize resources, and prepare new generations of leaders to face the most urgent social challenges.
At Nexus, we don’t just accompany processes; we transform them alongside those with the courage to change realities, ensuring the continuity, evolution, and regeneration of knowledge, innovation, communication, and long-term impact.
Meet Our Founder and CEO
Fabiola Aguilar is an international strategist in sustainable development, social innovation, and purpose-driven leadership with over 22 years of experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her career blends technical expertise, a transformative vision, and a deep conviction in the power of collaboration to achieve social justice.
She has led landmark programs and projects with multilateral organizations such as UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, USAID, BID Lab, World Bank, ACDI, SIDA, AECID, JAICA, UE, international NGOs, the private sector, and the civil society. These projects have focused on human rights, gender equity, youth, creative and cultural industries, health, education, violence prevention, and environmental governance.
Her expertise spans strategic frameworks, impact evaluations, monitoring and evaluation, public policy implementation, and co-creation platforms. Fabiola has also played a crucial role in designing communication strategies for development, integrating storytelling as a tool for social change.
Fabiola is the driving force behind Nexus for Social Advancement, a social enterprise founded with a calling: to build bridges between sectors, activate global alliances, and train new generations to lead development with meaning and sustainability.
Her leadership combines technical excellence, social sensitivity, and a bold vision to build a more just future. Today, through Nexus Impact Lab, she articulates collective impact solutions that transcend borders.
Our Team
Our Intergenerational Core Team
At Nexus, we believe that real innovation happens at the intersection of generations, disciplines, and worldviews.
Our core team brings together senior professionals with distinguished careers in multilateral organizations, academia, international cooperation, government, and civil society—leaders who now channel their legacy through a purposeful "Silver Economy."
Working alongside them are emerging young professionals and social leaders who contribute disruptive thinking, digital innovation, and new ways of imagining change.
From this generational symbiosis, we co-create solutions with a systems-oriented, locally sensitive, and socially transformative lens.
Experience inspires. Youth transforms. Diversity empowers. Nexus brings them together.
Our Business Model
Innovation + Purpose + Sustainability
Nexus operates as a social impact enterprise through a hybrid model that combines strategic consulting, research, and training services with the continuous reinvention of knowledge and social capital.
Through our operational structure—the Nexus Impact Lab—we reinvest part of our revenue to:
- Develop multisectoral partnerships
- Fund nonprofit applied research
- Strengthen the capacity of social organizations and youth leaders
- Prototype innovative solutions for territorial impact
This dual model allows us to work with commercial clients, philanthropists, and cooperation funds while ensuring financial sustainability, scalable impact, and the creation of shared value.
As part of this hybrid model, we also integrate communication for development solutions, strengthening the link between data, territory, and social change.
We are committed to a regenerative economy, which is why we are advancing toward B Corporation certification, aligning our business purpose with international sustainability and social justice standards.
Be Part of the Change
We believe social transformation is a collective effort.
Learn more about our work and join this movement for sustainable, collaborative impact.