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Blackstone’s Wesley LePatner did it 'all at once.' The foundation made in her honor wants 1,000 leaders to master work, civic life, and philanthropy

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In July 2025, Wesley LePatner kept bringing up the same worry with her husband. She was already stretched thin by many measures. She ran a Blackstone real estate fund, chaired the firm’s Women’s Initiative, served on boards from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to UJA-Federation of New York, and was raising two children. Still, she kept telling Evan LePatner it wasn’t enough.

“We kept having this conversation over and over again. And she said, ‘I’m not doing enough. I need to do more,’” Evan LePatner told Ellie Austin, editorial director of Most Powerful Women, onstage at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Tuesday.

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