Embracing Change with Feisal Alibhai

In this session, Feisal joins Peter Zombori, CEO of Premium Switzerland on his webinar as they discuss how to age better.

About Premium Switzerland: 

Premium Switzerland is a luxury website dedicated to the premium service sector in Switzerland. With many years of experience catering to wealthy clients from around the globe, the site is a one-stop gateway to luxury travel, private medical tourism, education and exclusive shopping in Switzerland. As well as in-depth local knowledge, the company provides a superb level of service through a network of experts in each sector, to ensure customers always receive high-quality, individually-tailored advice.

In this episode, Feisal and Elena discuss the future of next gens, how to bridge the educational next gen gap, identifying important life lessons and experiences for next gens to develop and the importance of having an ecosystem.

About Elena Zafirova: Elena is the founder & CEO of DIONZ. Designed for NextGens by NextGens, DIONZ provides unique educational experiences and a values-aligned community. Through the DIONZ app & online platform, the next generation of change-makers and impact seekers meet and interact with each other and with distinguished advisors, coaches, mentors, leaders and eminent organisations to learn how to prosper and bring prosperity to others.

Elena's professional career includes being a Senior Wealth Management and Tax Associate at Baker McKenzie, a Senior Wealth Management Consultant with Lombard International Assurance, and a member of the CEO’s Office for Commercial Growth & Strategy at Palantir Technologies.

Elena graduated from Institut Le Rosey, has obtained her undergraduate degree in Law (LL.B) from the University of Warwick and her Master’s degree in International Business and Financial Law (LL.M) from King’s College London. She is an Attorney and Counselor-at-Law admitted to the New York Bar, and a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. Elena has completed the Executive Leadership Development Program (PLD) at Harvard Business School.

 In this episode, Feisal and Sarah discuss the intergenerational issues right now around values. Younger people care about things that the older generation don’t connect with. This raises the challenge of making those new ideas commercially viable and that’s where family relationships easily break down. To be able to bring together the skills and values of different generations harmoniously is hugely valuable.

About Sarah McCrum: Sarah is an author, educator and business innovator. She has experienced 33 years of personal development, 22 years of training with Chinese Energy Masters and over two decades of coaching business owners and leaders.

When the Global Financial Crisis hit in 2008, Sarah found herself writing a series of messages from money (yes, literally). They were beautiful, surprising and intriguing. These messages turned into a book “Love Money, Money Loves You” that takes individuals into the heart of the world of money, but not into financial systems as they exist on this planet. Rather, it gives an insight into how the money energy operates behind our physical world.

Sarah is also co-Originator of the LOVE TO Group of Companies, a business ecosystem built on the principles in my book. LOVE TO has created a new type of financial product, backed by the value of regenerating and protecting nature and human wellbeing.

In this session, Feisal and Nike discuss Nike's new book "Lifetime to Legacy", where she explains why it is insufficient to focus on protecting the future of the family enterprise, but to focus instead on creating the family enterprise of the future. Nike explores how to take a family enterprise from lifetime to legacy, how families can better connect, collaborate and create to encourage diversity of thought so they can co-create the businesses of the future.

About Nike Anani:
Nike Anani is an international award-winning entrepreneur, succession specialist and a legacy planning expert for future-focused business families. She is on a mission to help businesses move from lifetime to legacy, such that they build family enterprises of the future. She has over a decade of family enterprise expertise as a second generation owner
and family office pioneer.
Nike is the host of The Connected Generation a top 10 podcast for family enterprises globally. She is co-Founder of African Family Firms, a non-profit community of family enterprises.

In this episode, Feisal and Tomas talk about the emotions that arise from family discussions, how transparency is inevitable, and how soft facts and the stories behind them are the most important to help families succeed.

About Tomas Hurcik: Tomas is Co-Founder and CEO of Orca, an intelligent software that gathers data, visualizes it and enables smooth collaboration between the administrator, the asset owners and any third-parties.
Tomas has always been attracted to entrepreneurial projects. The initial part of his working life was dedicated to helping other entrepreneurs achieve their vision.

The day his son was born, Tomas decided to become an entrepreneur himself. Orca was born out of a personal use case that he felt strongly about solving. It has blossomed into a business that serves many more industries than he could have originally imagined.

Tomas is a strong believer in the power of focus, and seeks to live this in all aspects of his life. His favorite book is "Essentialism: the disciplined pursuit of less" by Greg Mckeown.

In this episode, Terri O’Fallon explains what a transformation is and feels like, what the nature of a confusion is, including positive and shadow confusions, and how it relates to our identity.

About Terri O’Fallon:
Terri O’Fallon, PhD is an Integral scholar whose research spans 40 years, including eleven research studies conducted in various colleges, public schools, and private research venues. She completed her PhD in Integral Studies, “Learning and change in Human systems”, in 1998 at The California Institute for Integral Studies and having masters degrees in Spiritual Direction and Special Education. These embodied experiences inform her primary theory, research, and teaching theme: growing up is waking up throughout the lifespan.

Her most recent theory, and the culmination of a lifetime of work, is the STAGES model of human development. STAGES integrates several developmental models and is informed by Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and Terri’s own research, to form a robust and predictive map that is being used by numerous scholars, practitioners, and leaders throughout the world.

Terri’s theory and research are founded in a passionate practice of auspicious curiosity, learning, and marinating in life. Her interest in life span development naturally arose from her experience in the field of education.

In this episode, Feisal and Diana discuss money behavior - both Financial IQ and Financial EQ, and the degree to which we have healed the traumas in our lives. Diana will share about how unhelpful financial behavior is symptomatic of underlying trauma which is a gift, because it points us to healing which then has an impact not only on our relationship to money but in multiple aspects of our lives.

About Diana Chambers: Diana serves a global clientele as a philanthropic advisor and family wealth mentor focused on the human dimensions of wealth and its impact on our relationships. She works at the heart of money with individuals and families to facilitate gracefully the inevitable challenges resulting from significant wealth. Born in the UK, Diana founded The Chambers Group, LLC in 2002 in the US, and The Chambers Group Sàrl in 2014 in Switzerland, where she now resides.

In this episode, Feisal and Nike discuss the importance of interdependence and kinship, the African Queen - highlighting Africa's matriarchal culture and empowerment of women, natural governance, storytelling and resiliency.

About Nike Anani:
Nikè Anani is an international award-winning entrepreneur, succession specialist and a legacy planning expert for future-focused business families. She is on a mission to help businesses move from lifetime to legacy, such that they build family enterprises of the future.

With over a decade of family enterprise expertise in Nigeria, Nike helps owners lead their family organizations to long- term legacy and impact. Her inside experience as a second generation family business owner and family office pioneer birthed a passion to help other families in building enterprises that would outlive them.

In this episode, Feisal and Tsitsi discuss what Ubuntu means, how to utilize tradition for family governance, how our culture gives us our identity, and how can we use what we know to fit purpose.

About Tsitsi Mutendi:
Tsitsi Mutendi is a Family Business Consultant and Family Office Specialist helping Businesses and Families set up Structure, Governance, Philanthropy and Succession strategies that help them create lasting legacies and allows them to build multi-generational wealth.

She is the co-founder of African Family Firms - The African Family Business Association that is the voice of African Family Businesses.

In this episode, Feisal and Steve discuss the transition of wealth using an "all and nothing" approach, and what are some things that all parents strive for as they imagine the inheritance they will leave for their children.

About Steve Legler:
Steve Legler is a family legacy guide and advisor who helps families turn their dreams into a workable plan, using a step-by-step method to get everyone on the same page and ensure that the wealth transition goes smoothly and the legacy continues.
Steve is a proud FEA Designate (IFEA) and holds ACBFA and ACFWA certifications (FFI), in addition to having an MBA (UWO-Ivey) He is also a CFA charterholder (CFA Institute), and the author of Shift your Family Business (Friesen Press, 2014)