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.
A handpicked circle for next-gen successors navigating high-stakes transitions across Vietnam and ASEAN.
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?
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.
From Ambiguity to Clarity
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."
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."
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."
This is why the Next-Gen Lab™ exists.
The Family Enterprise Systems Framework
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
The Business — performance, governance, ownership and strategic choices.
The Family
The Family — roles, loyalties, expectations and the “big vs small family” dynamic.
The Individual
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.
A 9-Month Architecture of Self
Spread across 18 days of immersive deep work in community, MSLC moves through three deliberate phases.
SSCA Next-Gen
3 Months
Foundation: end with a personal vision and understanding of Family System.
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
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
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
Personal, Purposeful & Participative
- Admission: By private referral and acceptance after a 1:1 conversation.
- Cohort: A handpicked group of next-gen leaders from family enterprises.
- Format: Deep-work sessions, peer circles and guided reflection with structured accountability.
- Outcome: A meta-system leadership platform that integrates Self, Family, Business and Shared Legacy.
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Guided by Wisdom & Experience
- Founder
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.
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.
- Expert
Dr. Anna Itkin
Dr. Anna Itkin is a sustainability strategist, educator, and co-founder of The Inceptery, a sustainability-led innovation practice that helps organisations and leaders design resilient and regenerative solutions. She specialises in systems thinking, sustainable business model innovation, and the practical implementation of sustainability projects across diverse industries.
With a PhD from Université Libre de Bruxelles and Université de Strasbourg as a Marie Curie Fellow, Anna brings a globally informed and interdisciplinary perspective to her teaching and advisory work. She has facilitated numerous innovation and capacity-building programmes, equipping senior leaders, professionals, and students with the tools to translate ideas into real-world impact using systems thinking, design thinking, and circular economy principles.
Anna authored the chapter “Circular Economy Business Models and Practices” in Springer Nature’s An Introduction to Circular Economy (2020) and has delivered a TEDx talk on viewing sustainability through a systems lens. She serves as a board member of the Society for Organizational Learning Singapore and co-leads the Systems Innovation CoLab APAC. Beyond consulting and education, she is an active learning angel investor supporting solutions to sustainability and societal challenges.
Her work centres on empowering people and organisations to design, prototype, and implement meaningful projects that create economic, social, and environmental value.
Dien Yuen
Dien is the Founder and CEO of Daylight, a learning platform equipping wealth and philanthropic advisors with the confidence, competence, and cultural dexterity to thrive
in their practice. Daylight’s Certified Impact Philanthropy Advisor (IPA) program and certificate offerings establish a new benchmark for excellence in philanthropic planning
education.
Dien was named in Wealthmanagement.com’s 2025 Ten to Watch: Innovators and Influencers Set to Change the Industry. She was inducted into the 2023 National Association of Charitable Gift Planners (CGP) Hall of Fame and recognized for her academic leadership with the Distinguished Faculty Award from Wealth Management Institute in Singapore.
Previously, Dien founded the Center for Philanthropy and Social Impact at The American College of Financial Services, where she also developed and taught courses in the Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy® (CAP®) program as the Blunt-Nickel Professor in Philanthropy. Dien’s early career included senior roles in wealth management and global development organizations.
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Nguyen Thu Hue
Founder & Director of Marine Conservation and Community Development (MCD) (2003), supporting marine conservation and improved livelihood of the most vulnerable coastal communities in Vietnam. She has co-founded other impact driven organizations like Vietnet-ICT and ABG Leadership Institute.
Ms. Hue has been a graduate fellow of prestigious global leadership programs such as the Global Ambassador Program (2016) Obama Fellow (2019); WEAVE (2020); Moving World (2021); Acumen Leadership Accelerator (2022); Sustainable Success, the Collective Advantage ™ (2023); Certified Coaching IFC QL 3 (2023)
She has become a mentor/coach for leaders, certified accredited partnership brocker
and active PQ Membership Coach™
Ms. Hue holds a master’s degree at AIT (2003) in addition to a law degree. In 2004 she was awarded scholarship to take part in cyber security course at Harvard Law School.
Jimmy Pham
Jimmy Pham's incredible journey led him to establish KOTO (Know One, Teach One), Vietnam's pioneering social enterprise. Born in Vietnam in 1974 and immigrating to Australia in 1980, Jimmy's passion for helping marginalized youth in Hanoi ignited the creation of KOTO in 1999.
KOTO, standing as Vietnam's first social enterprise, is dedicated to empowering at-risk youth by providing a comprehensive 24-month hospitality program. The organization not only imparts essential life skills and English proficiency but also offers a pathway to a brighter future for disadvantaged young individuals.
Jimmy's visionary leadership has not gone unnoticed, as he has received numerous prestigious awards for his outstanding contributions to social change, including the Order of Australia (AM) and recognition as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He has also been honored with esteemed accolades like the Waislitz for Global Citizen in 2021 and the UNICEF Zero Awards for Social Innovation in 2013.
Moreover, he served as a dedicated member of the Vietnam-Australia Chamber of Commerce from 2021 to 2023, contributing to strengthening the ties between the two nations. Jimmy's unwavering commitment to making a positive impact extends beyond his role at the Chamber of Commerce, as he continues his visionary work at KOTO. Under his guidance and with these accolades in tow, KOTO has transformed the lives of nearly 1,800 graduates, receiving international acclaim for its transformative work. This remarkable initiative serves as a testament to the power of compassion, education, and social enterprise in creating positive change within Vietnam and beyond.
- Expert
Marisa Agrasut
As a practitioner, facilitator and enabler for the last 20 years, Marisa has been working with teams helping them understand, apply and leverage tools, frameworks and methodologies to optimise value creation. From consulting to co-creating, working with Fortune 500, to national ministries, intergovernmental organisations and non/not-just-for-profits.
During the 2009 Asian economic crisis Marisa discovered her inner entrepreneur - embarking on her first - people, planet, profit business model venture, at the time challenging the negative perception of plant-based diets; enabling reduced-carbon and responsible consumption through a (then) pioneering circularity, systems-thinking, and purpose-led business.
In 2016 she co-founded The Inceptery, an innovation firm that focuses on shared value creation. Working at the edge of conventional boundaries and assumptions, challenging notions of success in our current paradigm, they help future oriented organisations to embed and further this imperative.
Alongside The Inceptery’s Sustainability Management Consultancy and decision making support, she spends time building the capabilities through designing and delivering applied innovation programmes, workshops and training.
Possessing the ‘ambidexterity’ so necessary for this practice she also spends time guiding, coaching and challenging teams, facilitating global innovation labs as well as continues to lead and participate in such initiatives herself.
A graduate in Strategic Design Management, she harbours a lifetime fascination with the limitless power of intentionality and externalising creative processes collectively - meeting at the intersect of where we sense-make, gain insight, find needs, opportunities and originate ideas; to bring about new consciousness, solutions, businesses and technology to improve human-planetary conditions profitably.
Dr. Kevin Cheong
Kevin was Sentosa Development Corporation’s head of commercial, covering sales, marketing, branding and events (2001 to 2006). He later joined JTB Destinations & JTB-MEEMO as their regional managing director & chief executive officer, overseeing the Asia-Pacific region (2009 to 2011). Since 2007, Kevin has been a tourism and destination management consultant developing and managing tourist attractions and resorts across Asia-Pacific.
Kevin served as the elected Chairman of the Association of Singapore Attractions for 3 consecutive terms from 2010 to 2016 and for a fourth term during the COVID pandemic period, 2020 to 2022. He was a member of the Singapore COVID-19 Tourism Recovery Action Taskforce (2020 to 2023).
Kevin is currently the Lecturer (Business) at the University of Newcastle, Australia and an adjunct faculty at Singapore Management University. His areas of specialization includes innovation & sustainability governance, business model innovation, corporate governance, leadership, strategic management and marketing management. He is also project consultant with Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC).
He holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from Singapore Management University and a Master of Science (MSc) in Finance from Baruch College, City University of New York, USA.
- Expert
Pham Kieu Oanh
Pham Kieu Oanh is the Founder and the Director of the Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion (CSIP). She is a pioneer and an expert in social entrepreneurship development, women’s rights, child protection and other vulnerable population. Since 2009, Oanh has led CSIP to create a new sector of social entrepreneurship and social enterprises in Vietnam. Oanh is also a key mover in initiating policy changes to create a conducive environment for the growth of the social enterprise and social impact businesses sector in Vietnam, including the inclusion of social enterprises in the Enterprise Law (2014). With CSIP, nearly 300 social impact businesses had been accelerated for greater impact to the community and contributing to the achievement of global sustainable development goals. Oanh holds various leadership positions at national and international development organizations including UNICEF in Vietnam, ActionAid International, the National Committee for the Advancement of Women, and the World Concern International. She is a founding member of the Social Enterprise Network Asia (SENA), Global Social Enterprise Network (GSEN) and Vietnam Social Enterprise Network, which are enabling the growth of a dynamic and vibrant social enterprise environment in Vietnam.
- Expert
Daan Van Rossum
Daan van Rossum is the founder and CEO of FlexOS - Lead with AI, an AI transformation business that serves leaders and teams at over 1,000 companies, including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, McKinsey, BCG, Atlassian, Uber, and more.
A LinkedIn Top Voice 2025, Daan reaches over 50,000 followers and readers, with his work featured in outlets such as The New York Times, Business Insider, CNBC, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, and Fast Company, and on stages for The Economist, SHRM, and MMA Global.
Combining deep understanding of AI with decades of business leadership and transformation experience, Daan is known for turning complex technical concepts into clear, actionable strategies.
Before founding Lead with AI, he led digital transformation initiatives for multiple Fortune 500 companies at Ogilvy and later served as CEO of Dreamplex, a network of innovative coworking spaces. His mission is simple: demystify AI for business leaders and focus on what actually matters—practical implementation that drives measurable results.
- Next Gen (G2)
Nguyen Xuan Quang
Johnatan Moralle is the co-founder and Managing Director of Execor Consulting Group LLC. Over the course of his career, Jay has led or supported more than one-hundred strategy engagements and M&A transactions in the aerospace, defense, and government services sectors. As the co-founder of Fairmont, Jay has worked to build a firm that focuses on outstanding client service, providing new, unique, data-driven analysis in support of clients’ most complex and challenging business questions.
Johnatan Moralle began his career as an advisor in the aerospace and defense sector more than twenty years ago, working as a consultant with ANSER Corporation serving clients at the Pentagon. Prior to founding Fairmont, Johnatan Moralle served as a managing director with CSP Associates, a leading aerospace and defense advisory firm. During his time at CSP Jay led or played a key supporting role in more than one hundred transaction and strategic advisory engagements for more than thirty clients in the United States and Europe.
Prior to CSP, Jay worked with Bain & Company in their Private Equity Group, providing due diligence advisory services to clients across a range of industries. He previously worked with Gartner Group as a senior consultant, providing strategy and market analysis to clients in enterprise IT and telecommunications.
Johnatan Moralle received an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He studied under a NASA fellowship at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs where he received an MA in Science, Technology, and Public Policy. Johnatan Moralle was a President’s Scholar at Georgia Tech and received a BS with Honors in Aerospace Engineering.
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