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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.

She then earned a Marketing traineeship at the largest Swiss bank UBS and also pursued Ph.D. in family business institute at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany.

Claudia has been leading the Family and Business Program at Lucerne School of Business since 2014, and continues to provide research-based and peer-oriented learning opportunities for family-owned companies in Switzerland even after her move to the United States in 2013. In 2019, she joined Andrew Keyt as the Head of the Governance Practice at Keyt Consulting – a role that she continues to hold at Generation6. In this capacity, Claudia worked extensively with the boards of some of the largest private family companies in the United States.

Claudia’s research and practice are informed and shaped by her understanding of the role of family cohesion, effective communication and conflict management, and family and business governance that align with the values, culture, and objectives of the owning family.

She has received awards for her research from scholarly and business organizations alike. Claudia is a board member of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy and a former family business chair at the European Academy of Management. She is a visiting scholar at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany, and an affiliated researcher at Jönköping University (CeFEO) in Sweden.

David’s experience includes founding and building multiple businesses from the ground up, and expanding and leading operations into new markets. He is recognised by colleagues as a creative problem-solver and strategist with expertise in coming up with ideas and creating new ways of improving business, strategy, operations, and results.

As a business and family advisor, he provides clients with expert business advice on intergenerational business and wealth transition, advancing entrepreneurial efforts, setting up good governance, improving financial and operational results, and strategic direction. He is also a seasoned program leader with an aptitude for providing governance in corporate and philanthropic pursuits with a strong focus on culturally focused non-profits.

He is also the author of the book Transition, and the Founder and Chairman of Billing Bureau, one of the leading Australian Telecommunications Recurring Billing Software companies. He has been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, The Wall St. Journal, USA Today and most recently has been speaking for high net worth groups in Macao, Singapore and New Zealand.

David is an adjunct professor of Swinburne University, has completed a Masters of Entrepreneurship and used his knowledge to expand several successful businesses in the Information Technology and Telecommunications industries. He currently mentors and advises family businesses, CEOs, and top-level entrepreneurs on how to successfully systemize their businesses so that they can increase revenue, scale, and even exit their business. He also launched his own Family Office. David lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and five children.

Rania is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA), a member of the Scientific Council of FBN France, and a member of the Advisory Board of Women in Family Business (WIFB).

She is the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneurship Research Journal and a member of the editorial boards of the main academic journals dedicated to family businesses. She has published extensively in academic and professional books and journals on family businesses, including the expert sections of Droit & Patrimoine magazine and Les Echos solutions.

She holds a PhD in Management Sciences from the University of Bordeaux and has received several international awards in recognition of her contribution in the field of family businesses including the prestigious Barbara Hollander Award in 2020. Her current interests focus on the role of family and emotional dynamics in financial, social and philanthropic, intra/entrepreneurial, and family business succession decisions.