Claude Lestage

Philanthropic Management Consultant

He has formal training in communications and over 15 years of experience as a moderator and lecturer.  He has been working as a Consultant in philanthropic development and planned giving for a number of years.  Before joining BNP Strategies, Claude worked with the Club des petits déjeuners du Québec, where he worked with major donors/partners, planned giving and event planning.  From 2006 to 2010, as founder of Lestage Service Conseil, he worked in collaboration with the Archdioceses of Gatineau and Quebec, as well as the dioceses of Chicoutimi and Mont-Laurier. Beforehand, he worked as a philanthropic development coordinator for Centraide Quebec and planned giving and fundraising consultant for the Archdiocese of Quebec.

Between 2003 and 2006 he was Vice-President of the Eastern Quebec Round Table of the Canadian Association of Gift Planners (CAGP). From 2006 to 2011 he was the volunteer administrator for Alpha-Entraide, an organization that helps people who are illiterate. Claude is actively involved in his community by helping to plan fundraising events.  His experience and dynamism will be appreciated by BNP Strategies clients.