For Next-Gen Family Enterprise Leaders

Future-Ready Stewardship for Tomorrow's Family Enterprise Visionaries.

Step out of the founder's shadow and into your own platform of impact. The Meta-System Leadership Circle™ is a 9-month journey to align Self, Family, Business and the Shared Legacy you are here to steward.
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Curated deep-work labs with founders, next-gen leaders and systems practitioners from across ASEAN.
A handpicked circle for next-gen successors navigating high-stakes transitions across Vietnam and ASEAN.
Context

The Next-Gen Challenge

A Quiet but Profound Transition

The conversation at the heart of this journey is not only about inheritance and asset protection. It is about the inner architecture of legacy: the values, vision and relationships that will determine whether the family enterprise regenerates or fragments.

Across Asia and particularly within Vietnam, Doi Moi founders are looking to the horizon. You carry their expectations — and your own aspirations.

You are navigating a VUCA landscape where business foundations are being tested and norms are being challenged. At the same time, a massive transfer of wealth, ownership and responsibility is underway.

As next-gen, you are asked to: 

honour the legacy while responding to disruptive realities and your own sense of purpose
balance filial piety with independence and self-authorship
hold the "big family" and "small family" systems in tension
carry expectations without a clear roadmap for influence

These transitions are not just technical or financial. They are emotional, relational and deeply systemic.

Ready to Explore Your Meta-System Leadership Journey?

More than
85%
of businesses globally are family-owned, and many are facing their most important challenge yet:
Our Invitation

A Generative Space,
Not Another Networking Group

The Meta-System Leadership Circle™ (MSLC) is a 9-month, invite-only learning journey for next-gen leaders of family enterprises.

We are not offering a motivational quick fix. We are not building a social or business club. There are enough of those out there.

MSLC is a deliberately held space to think, discover, experiment and apply a different kind of acumen: a meta-system way of seeing Self, Family and Business within one living system.

Move from shadow to stewardship in the family enterprise.
Decode the invisible "shadows" of legacy and conflict.
Explore your own platform of impact, including philanthropy and innovation.
Anchor your decisions in a shared, sustainable legacy rather than short-term harmony.
Transformation

From Ambiguity to Clarity

The work of MSLC is to turn unspoken tension into grounded stewardship across three domains: Identity, Influence and Integrality.
01

Identity

Before

"I am navigating in the shadows of those who came before me."

After

"I find my own voice and expression in the family, the business and society — grounded in my values, not just my surname."

02

Integrality

Before

"I avoid difficult conversations to keep the peace, but the tension remains and trust erodes quietly."

After

"I understand the source of conflicts and distrust and can generate resolution and alignment toward a shared future — The Hive Effect in action."

03

Impact

Before

"I have the title, but limited influence. I lack the roadmap to transform tradition."

After

"I gain tools to balance tradition with transformation, drawing on entrepreneurial acumen, generative listening and big-picture thinking."

Plan Your Legacy
This is why the Next-Gen Lab™ exists.
To equip, empower, and develop you.
Shared Legacy
(Transgenerational Roadmap)
We work at the intersection of these three domains — where difficult conversations, key decisions and identity questions converge.

In MSLC, you learn to decode three interdependent subsystems and their patterns:

The Business — performance, governance, ownership and strategic choices.

The Family — roles, loyalties, expectations and the “big vs small family” dynamic.

The Individual — your inner architecture of values, fears, ambitions and calling.

Through cases, reflection and live dialogues, you practice big-picture thinking: from profit sharing to progress sharing; from individual success to shared, sustainable success.

 

You also build practical skills for high-stakes communication and conflict navigation, so that the legacy can be renewed rather than frozen in a previous generation.

Journey

A 9-Month Architecture of Self

Spread across 18 days of immersive deep work in community, MSLC moves through three deliberate phases.

1

SSCA Next-Gen

3 Months

Foundation: end with a personal vision and understanding of Family System.

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2

MSLC Ph1

3 Months

Foresight: end with shared futur and understanding of philanthropy.

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3

MSLC Ph2

3 Months

Formulation: end with family circle and understanding what next.

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The Jade Circle

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Mapping the System & Self
Surface the visible and invisible dynamics in your family enterprise. Clarify your current position, roles and inner architecture as a next-gen.

Vision / Values / Legacy

7 Videos

The Leadership Scenario
Work with multiple scenarios for the future of the family and business. Explore dilemmas and tradeoffs, practising meta-system leadership in live cases.

Family Business

8 Videos
Biography

Chris Freund pioneers values-driven investing in Vietnam. As Founder of Mekong Capital, he empowers high-growth companies to lead with purpose, culture, and transformation. His work has reshaped Vietnam’s private equity landscape—fueling sustainable growth and nurturing a generation of impactful, conscious business leaders.

Entrepreneurial Stewardship Roadmap
Design a stewardship roadmap that integrates your aspirations, family expectations and enterprise needs into concrete experiments, conversations and commitments.

Impact / Philantropy

5 Videos
Engagement

Personal, Purposeful & Participative

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Faculty

Guided by Wisdom & Experience

MSLC is curated and led by practitioners who have been inside ASEAN family enterprises for nearly two decades.
Founder TLC, Co-founder of Impact Velocity, Family Business Advisor/Coach, and Angel Investor.

Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra

Founder and Managing Director of Talent Leadership Crucible. Expert in family businesses with decades of experience in conflict resolution, succession planning, and next-generation onboarding.

She specializes in building trans-generational futures and sustainable legacies. Author of several books on entrepreneurship since 2003 and hosts the "Thriving in the Age of Disruption" and "The Mastery Effect Podcast" (co-hosted with Poorani Thanusha). Facilitates customized 1-on-1 individual family coaching and co-facilitates customized family interventions with Poorani.

Principal Consultant and Facilitator, TLC and Co-founder of Impact Velocity.

Poorani Thanusha

Over two decades of expertise in people development and collective transformation. Designer of The Collective Advantage™ Framework that shifts awareness from individual to systemic level. She is Co-Founder of Impact Velocity and Chairperson of Global Society for Organisational Learning (SOL) Board.

Primary facilitator for Next Gen SSCA (3-day intensive) and Next Gen Lab 2026(9-month program). Co-facilitates customized family interventions with Dr. Ramesh, guiding next-generation leaders toward sustainable success.

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