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.

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.

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.