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Sri Tatwamasi Dixit was born in Varanasi, into a family of Vedic scholars. His father, late Sri S. Srinivasa Dikhshitar, was a renowned Vedic Scholar who introduced him to the astounding power of Vedic literature, as early as the age of three. Under the adept guidance of his father, he mastered and explored the power of Vedas, Shastras, Karma Kaandas, Upanishads, Ayurveda and other associated scriptures. Concurrent to his Vedic studies, Sri Dixit Graduated from Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. A child prodigy, Sri Dixit was conferred the title Vedic Pandit at the age of 17 by Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Academy, constituted by Rashtriya Samskrit Sansthan, for specializing in Yajur Veda.

Sri Dixit believes that ‘The foundation of any successful family business is a successful family’. He founded FABRIC, a boutique family business consulting firm, offering advisory and coaching services to family business entrepreneurs and next-gen leaders.

The unusual combination of his knowledge, experiences, exceptional insight and intuition has helped him become a successful Family Business Advisor helping families and businesses to manage growth, change and transitions.

Sri Dixit is a talented natural facilitator, well-known for his innate and intuitive ability to internalize and decipher the DNA of family business dynamics. Depending on the underlying complexity of relationships and various family business challenges, he crafts unique solutions for transformation and harmony. He has the ability to take the ‘heat’ of family tensions and ‘undo the knots’ bringing about a calming influence that helps people deal with their difficult issues.

Sri Dixit helps business families derive solutions for their personal and professional challenges that encompass the Ownership, Business and Family aspects. He aligns them on their family business purpose, vision and values, provides solutions on succession, nextgen leadership development, family business governance, strategy, ownership structure, professionalization, decision making and difference management, drafts their family business constitution and helps set up their family office.

Having worked with multi-generational, large family business houses, Sri Dixit has touched the lives of over 10,000 individuals across 100+ families in 10+ countries.

With over 25 years of rich experience in this niche field, Mr. Dixit has evolved into a thought leader in the family business space. He has honed his ability to provide tailor-made solutions, embracing a bespoke approach that resonates with his clients. Specializing in collaborating with family businesses, he understands that any dispute they encounter often has underlying emotional causes. To effectively resolve these complex and unique issues, he meticulously pinpoints the root causes, comprehending the depths of the challenges they face.

Sri Tatwamasi Dixit firmly believes that strengthening these enterprises, in turn, contributes significantly to a nation's GDP, recognizing family businesses as the backbone of any economy. He acknowledges that each family business is unique, with distinct needs and complexities, and his commitment lies in understanding those intricacies.

Sri Dixit has co-authored a book titled Indian Family Business Mantras, with Mr. Peter Leach, a leading family business advisor in the UK, which was launched in 2015 by the then President of India, Sri Pranab Mukherjee. The book is a comprehensive treatise on family-owned businesses that takes a pragmatic approach, interspersed with analogies and concepts from ancient Indian scriptures on values and culture.

Sri Dixit was conferred “Maharishi Badrayan Vyas Samman” by the then President of India, Sri A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, for his work towards interdisciplinary studies on ancient Indian wisdom to the process of “Synergy between Modernity and Tradition”.

Sri Dixit has been a regular speaker in numerous prestigious forums and conferences including Harvard Medical School, Family Firm Institute, various management Schools and associations, IWA, FICCI Round table, Rotary clubs, Lions Club.

Sri Tatwamasi Dixit was awarded an honorary doctorate by the esteemed CMR University, for his substantial contributions to the fields of Vedic education and Family Business Research.

Dennis helps large, global families manage personal and organizational issues that lead to successful and fulfilling transfer of businesses, wealth, values, commitments and legacies between generations.

He is a family business fellow at the Cornell Johnson College of Business, and is also cited by Family Wealth Report for special commendation as an individual thought leader. He has served on the board of Family Firm Institute. Dennis was awarded with the Richard Beckhard and International Awards. In 2007 he was Thinker in Residence for S. Australia, helping the region design a strategic plan for the future of their entrepreneurial and family businesses.

He helps these families to define their purpose as owners and to establish the structures, strategies, and skills they need to accomplish their goals. Prior to Banyan, he worked at Bain & Company and The Bridgespan Group. Baron taught family business courses at Columbia Business School in the MBA, EMBA, and Executive Education programs.

He is now a Visiting Lecturer in Executive Education at Harvard Business School where he teaches about how to build a family business that lasts, how to manage conflict in a family enterprise, and how family ownership can create a competitive advantage. He publishes and speaks frequently on subjects concerning family enterprises and is the co-author of the Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook.

A regular contributor to HBR.org, including Why the 21st Century Will Belong to Family Businesses, Why Family Businesses Need to Find the Right Level of Conflict, and Every Business Owner Should Define What Success Looks Like, he is graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Cambridge, and Columbia University. Josh is also the author of Great Power Peace and American Primacy: The Origins

She educates and empowers women to value themselves and their contributions in order to accomplish great things in the world- and in so doing protect themselves, those they love and the organizations they care about.

Patricia M. Annino is a partner in Rimon’s Trust and Estates Group. A nationally recognized authority on estate planning and taxation, Ms. Annino has more than 30 years of experience serving the diverse needs of families, individuals, and owners of closely-held businesses.

Ms. Annino’s practice includes all aspects of private client work, including estate planning; will and trust planning; incapacity planning; prenuptial and postnuptial agreements; estate litigation; advising executors, trustees and beneficiaries and administration of estates and trusts.

A Boston native, Patricia is a graduate of Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, Smith College, Suffolk University School of Law and the Boston University School of Law, Graduate Tax Program.