CURATED LEARNING EXPEDITIONS
New York
rewards curiosity.
Access the people and perspectives shaping New York.
WHAT WE DO
EXPLORE
Learning happens through people.
Every LEX|NYC expedition brings together exploration, conversations and purposeful introductions.
No pre-designed itineraries. Every expedition begins with your questions and is built from the ground up.
Behind the Scenes
Go beyond what visitors usually see. Through carefully curated visits and behind-the-scenes conversations, discover the people, organizations and neighborhoods shaping New York today.
CONNECT
The Right People
Meet the people behind New York's ideas, institutions and innovations. Every introduction is chosen for the perspective it brings—encouraging honest dialogue, unexpected insights and lasting relationships.
EXPERIENCE
Built Around You
No two groups are alike. Every expedition is designed around your objectives, interests and pace.
THE EXPERIENCE
Every expedition is different because every question is different.
No two organizations arrive with the same questions. Some explore entrepreneurship, others education, manufacturing, culture or community innovation.
Every expedition begins by understanding what you want to discover, then brings together the people, places and conversations best suited to your objectives.
A LEX|NYC expedition is something closer to a guided conversation with the city.
01
Begin
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Every expedition starts with your questions.
FROM QUESTION TO ITINERARY
See one expedition come together.
02
Connect
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Meet the people, places and ideas shaping New York.
No two expeditions are alike. This sample shows how a single question becomes a day of conversations, places and discoveries.
03
Return
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Leave with new perspectives, new relationships and new ways of thinking.
WHY NEW YORK
Where ideas collide.
New York brings together one of the world's richest concentrations of industries, cultures and perspectives.
Entrepreneurship meets culture.
Finance meets design.
Research meets community.
Together, they create the kind of unexpected encounters that spark new ways of thinking.
What sets New York apart isn't the concentration of ideas—it's the proximity of the people behind them. Within a few subway stops, conversations can move from a startup founder to a museum curator, a manufacturer to a community leader, a scientist to an artist.
#2
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Global Startup Ecosystem
*Startup Genome 2025
800+
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Languages Spoken
*NYC Department of City Planning
DENSITY. DIVERSITY. OPENNESS.
Three conditions. Endless conversations.
Density
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Ideas live side by side.
Diversity
———Perspectives overlap.
130+
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Universities & Colleges
*NYCEDC
Openness
———Conversations become connections.
THE PEOPLE
Nothing meaningful happens alone.
The conversations you remember rarely happen with the people you expected to meet.
FOUNDER
Every new place changes the way you see the next.
After seventeen relocations across four continents, Magalie Chassard developed a perspective shaped by a lifetime of adapting to new places, cultures and ways of thinking.
Years of living and working internationally confirmed an observation: understanding a place rarely comes from seeing more—it comes from seeing differently. The right conversations, genuine curiosity and carefully designed experiences
Over the past fifteen years, she has cultivated trusted relationships across New York's entrepreneurial, academic, cultural and civic communities—creating access to conversations that aren't available through traditional study tours.
Today, Magalie personally curates every LEX|NYC expedition, bringing together the people, places and partnerships that make each experience unique—so every group leaves seeing New York, and their own work, through a different lens.
START A CONVERSATION
Every expedition begins with a question.
Every LEX|NYC expedition is designed from the ground up. The first conversation is about understanding what you'd like your group to discover.
If it feels like the right place to begin, we'd love to hear from you.
Every inquiry is answered personally by Magalie.