Sri Tatwamasi Dixit is a successful consultant and coach specializing in family businesses. He founded FABRIC (Family Business Research International Centre), offering family business advisory services and coaching to family business entrepreneurs and next generation leaders.
He is internationally recognized for his knowledge and application of the wisdom of the Vedas. He has uniquely mastered the integration of Vedic principles with contemporary psychology and business management.
Sri Dixit draws on his extensive experience in commercial and management practices to help family businesses work on balancing and blending family and business priorities. This unusual combination of his experiences, exceptional insight and intuition has helped him become a successful family business advisor helping families and businesses to manage growth, change and transitions. Depending on the underlying complexity of the relationships and the various family business challenges, he crafts an appropriately unique solution for transformation and harmony.
He has successfully worked with Indian, Arab, and English families across the globe for more than a decade in multi-cultural environments. He has worked in India, Singapore, Hong Kong, UAE, Oman, South Africa, Central Africa, West Africa, and the United Kingdom. He has worked with family businesses in a wide spectrum of industries including: infrastructure, real estate, pharmaceutical, chemical, shipping, mining, trading, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, hospitality, and FMCG.
Sri Dixit is a talented natural mediator and facilitator. His intensive studies and training have enabled him to develop deep understanding of people, relationships and structure. He uses this to help individuals explore their identity. He weaves a fabric of togetherness between family members and business professionals allowing renewal and regeneration of emotional bonds.
He acts as an Independent Director on various Family Business Boards and Corporate Boards.
He firmly believes that ‘The foundation of any successful family business is a successful family’. He also coaches founders and entrepreneurs, working with them in what can often be a lonely space to overcome obstacles and work more effectively with their business and their family.
In particular, his outstanding talent and contribution was recognized when he was awarded the “Maharishi Badrayan Vyas Samman”, the highest civilian award in 2007, by the President of India for his work on the ‘synergy between modernity and tradition’. He is often invited to speak at conferences and institutions around the world on Vedas and Family Business Management.
He is co-authoring a book on Indian family business with Peter Leach, a leading family business advisor in the UK. Tatwamasi, currently serves as one of the Directors of Parampara Family Business Institute.
Dr. Kavitha is a Family Business advisor who is an Organizational Psychologist and an Associate
Certified Coach. She has a Doctorate in
Management, specializing in
Organizational behavior and has an
MA in Psychology along with a Post
Graduate diploma in counseling
skills. She is an Associate Certified
Coach recognized by the ICF
(International Coach Federation).
She has undergone executive
education Programs offered by ISB –
Indian School of Business, and has
been certified by the institute on a
family business training lead my
John Ward.
While working with small groups
and families she uses the
fundamentals of the process work
and has herself undergone Basic
Human processes lab and Advanced
Human processes lab under ISABS.
She believes in looking at
individuals and groups as a system
and diagnosing ‘what is working’
rather than ‘what is not working’.
She is trained and certified in this
method of “Appreciative Coaching"
by Fielding Graduate University.
This academic background and the
international training exposure give
her the backdrop to work with the
complex and challenging demands
of family business advising.
Dr. Kavitha has worked with Indian
families and has been able to
facilitate the building of the family
governance structures. She is an
empaneled facilitator who is
advising and helping operationalize
the family constitution. She has a
decade’s experience of family
business advising working with
different family businesses.
Having in depth exposure in the
business arena gives her an added
advantage while she is advising and
facilitation in the family business.
She has over seventeen years of
work experience in the business
world covering a wide range of
industries and projects. She has
consulted and trained with several
organizations such as Bharath
Dynamics Limited, VOLVO, DRDL,
Deloitte, GE- Money, PWC, GMR, Dr.
Reddy's, Airtel, BSNL, BAAN, Intelle
Group, BSNL, Cyberabad
Police,Neospark etc.,
She is passionate about working
with both the executive and non
executive members of the family in
a manner that they can contribute
with more energy, talent and a
sense of purpose, fostering an
ability towards loving and fulfilling
relationships, creating each one’s
deep purpose, dream career, more
energy, more balance and more
fun! Her education in psychology,
doctorate in management and the
cross industrial experience gives her
a unique leverage in grasping and
helping individuals transform their
Family Business ‘platform’ into
‘purpose’.
She is able to work at two levels at
the intrapersonal space and
interpersonal space. This can then
translate into positive change that
benefits the individual in their
personal as well as the family
business. She meets the family
business space as a sacred space
that needs to be revered. She
begins with bringing in five basic
spiritual qualities to this space -
‘mindful-ness , ‘openness’, ‘trust’ ,
‘authenticity’ and ‘reverence’. She
has a firm grasp of the ethical and
practical issues of working with a
family business group and the
individuals in it.
She has the ability to put into
simple, jargon-less language what is
observed and the stature to raise
any issue with the family or its
members at the right moment. She
knows six languages that is an
added advantage – English, Hindi,
Telugu, Bengali, Kannada and
Marathi.
She works with the knowing that to
be a ‘contributor’ in the family
business space meets her own
sense of expression, meaning and
life purpose.
Peter Leach is regarded as one of the founding fathers on family business thinking, Peter has been a leader in his field for over 30 years.
Having been a partner in BDO for 25 years, he established a specialist family business consultancy in 2008. Following its successful sale to Deloitte LLP in 2015, he led the firm’s global Family Enterprise Consulting practice, leaving in July 2019 returning to private practice. He serves as Special Advisor to BDT International LLP
Peter is a trustee of numerous family foundations and he also served as a non-executive director on the board of Pentland Group plc, one of the UK’s most successful family businesses.
He has written numerous books the latest being Family Business; The Essentials published by Profile Books.
He is an Adjunct Professor of family business at Imperial College Business School, and teaches the family business elective for the MBA and MSc. Peter is also a Fellow of the Family Firm Institute of the USA – and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
He received the Richard Beckhard Award from the Family Firm Institute in 2011; and the Family Business Adviser of the Year at the 2013 STEP Private Client Awards.
Prasad Kumar is a leading Family Business Advisor. He also specializes in Strategic Facilitation and Organisation Development.
Over four and a half decades, he has worked in senior roles in corporates and with many leading companies, in their growth and transformation.
Most of his engagements have been long term partnerships.
His last positions were Business Chairman and member of the GMR Group Holding Board, Chairman of RAXA (Home Land Security) and Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Parampara Family Business Institute.
He is member of:
- The Economic Times Advisory Panel on Family Business
- The Economic Times Advisory Panel on Corporate Board Governance
- Governing Council of Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology
- Advisory Board Member of Sieflex Robot i-City Project
- Advisory Board Amicorp Trustees (India) Private Limited
A post graduate in Management and accredited in Applied Behavioural Sciences, Prasad has been a Certified Professional of the International Association of Facilitators and a Life Member of the Association.
PM teaches specialized modules in Organisation Development, Leadership and Family Business at IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore and SP Jain Institute, Mumbai to name a few.
He has also been Executive-in-Residence at the Kellogg School of Management, NW University, Chicago, USA and worked closely with Ram Charan, Marshall Goldsmith, John Ward all global experts in Management and Business.
Judy Green is president of the Family Firm Institute, Inc. (FFI), headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1986, FFI is the leading association worldwide for family enterprise professionals and the organization of choice for advisers, consultants, educators, and researchers who help perpetuate multi-generational family business enterprise.
Its mission is to be the most influential global network of thought leaders in the field of family enterprise. She is also the managing partner of Green Associates, LLC, and holds a Ph.D. from Marquette University.
