At LBI Connext, Lisa Ben-Isvy puts professionalism, passion, and purpose to work.
Lisa Ben-Isvy, founding principal of LBI ConneXt, is expert at identifying opportunities across the design business landscape—and making the most of them. A natural connector and a proven catalyst for growth, she has more than two decades of documented success in marketing both interior design and fashion. Through her full-service consulting firm, she puts her creativity and business acumen to work for new and established designers, design brands, and real estate firms looking to increase their presence and revenue.
A media industry standout with a career focus on the luxury sector, Lisa was most recently the publisher of New York Spaces magazine and a recipient of the Folio Award for “Top Women in Media” after one year in the role. In her tenure there, she worked with some of the interior design world’s most prestigious brands, helping them to flourish in diverse new ways. At the same time, she also engaged many of Manhattan’s leading real estate firms—Brown Harris Stevens, Compass Real Estate, Silverstein Properties, and Sotheby’s, among them—into the orbit of leading residential designers.
In life and in work, Lisa marries passion to purpose to profits. At LBI Connext, she focuses strategic planning, marketing, partnerships, public relations, and events laser-like on one goal: driving new business for continued growth.
Lisa begins her day at 5:00 am with a great workout as she cares deeply about health and fitness. In her spare time, she can be found in Manhattan soaking up the culture of the city, at a café in Soho with friends, or running around the Upper West Side with her daughter before heading off to a Broadway show.
“Lisa is the ultimate connector. She has long-standing, deep rooted relationships with top design firms in the industry who are incredibly loyal to her. From her days as publisher of New York Spaces magazine to working for brands like Cambria, Lisa knows about putting the right people and deals together.”
Roberto Cabrera of Brown Harris Stevens and I periodically ask expert Lisa Ben-Isvy when we want to talk to the very best in the design business. Lisa has the talent and knowledge to put together all the right Top designers and luxury brands. We look to design when we want to make sense of a turbulent real estate market and Lisa Ben-Isvy is the perfect partner. New York’s best designers are the tastemakers for the world. Designers must be good listeners and the best of them have the instinctive feel for where the market is going.
“Lisa Ben-Isvy is highly respected in the design industry, I have known and been working with Lisa for years. Lisa is extremely passionate about her clients and the industry, She is a true out of the box thinker and uses her strong relationships in real estate, publishing, and with luxury brands to get the right exposure for her clients, which results in new business.”
