Dignity & Hospitality: Turning Crisis into Community Infrastructure at Scale with Maya Ibrahimchah- 2026 Cosmic Conference LinkedIn Live Session

In Lebanon, crisis is not a moment. It is a continuous reality. Economic collapse, social instability, and prolonged uncertainty have shaped everyday life for decades.

In this context, the question is not just how to respond, but how to build systems that preserve dignity, sustain communities, and endure over time. In this conversation, Marilyn Zakhour (CEO & Founder, Cosmic Centaurs) speaks with Maya Ibrahimchah, Founder of Beit el Baraka and Beit Kanz, about what it takes to move from relief to resilience. What began as a single encounter with an elderly woman uncovered a much deeper and largely invisible crisis: hundreds of thousands of retirees living without support, structure, or visibility. From that moment, Beit el Baraka was built not as a traditional charity, but as a system designed to restore agency and create long-term impact.

You can donate to Beit el Baraka here.

Together, they explore:

• What it means to design systems in environments of ongoing crisis

• How to rethink charity as a sustainable economic model

• The shift from one-off interventions to long-term ecosystems

• How leaders make decisions and act when conditions are constantly changing What endurance looks like at both an individual and system level

About the Speaker

Maya Ibrahimchah is the Founder of Beit el Baraka and Beit Kanz, two pioneering social enterprises in Lebanon. Her work focuses on restoring dignity and agency to vulnerable communities, particularly the elderly, through sustainable, system-based solutions that go beyond traditional aid models.

About Cosmic Centaurs

Cosmic Centaurs is an organizational and leadership development consultancy helping leaders and leadership teams make better decisions and drive sustainable change.

The Cosmic Conference is our annual, open platform for learning, reflection, and connection, bringing together leaders, thinkers, and practitioners to explore the questions that matter most to leadership today.

You can listen to this session as a podcast here.