Voice of African Family Business with AFF

Caroline Mbi-Njifor is an Experienced Executive, visionary and Strategic Leader, Entrepreneurial and Experienced Board member. After a successful career in public health and development work in and around Southern Africa, she is now a life purpose coach and intentional about fostering; through coaching, empowering and building functioning marriages and families by influencing one woman at a time. A wife and mother of two powerful girls. She is currently the co-founder of Endlesslife group, with her husband. The CEO and the MD of EndlessLife Health Services. The Head Coach and Mentor of ELLA – The Family School.

Nike is a Speaker, Author and Mentor to NextGens that seek to be effective change agents in their Family Enterprises. She is a guide and a spark-plug for action: She helps NextGens identify and implement new opportunities, shortening the journey from identification to impact. She fuses her 9 years’ experience as a NextGen executive in her Family Enterprise and as a Chartered Accountant, to bring practical solutions to the table.

She is a member of Family Firm Institute and a fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants. She sits on the boards of several companies, including ARM Harith Infrastructure Fund and Mixta Real Estate Plc. For more information, kindly visit www.nikeanani.com

If we plan for our families or for our businesses then we are natural futurists. We don’t often think about what it means to be a futurist, but there are skills and models we can develop and use, to be more effective, to avoid potential disasters and to take advantage of even unexpected opportunities.

Being a conscious futurist means intentionally moving up a spiral of awareness from merely surviving to becoming responsible, invested and then conscious about the future we create for those we care about.

Charlotte Kemp is the Futures Alchemist and will show you how to think about the future, discover tools and direction and to continue your investment in your family business in a way that will be more sustainable and have a more positive influence over the years.

Charlotte Kemp is a futurist, professional speaker, author and podcaster and the Deputy President of the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa. Her parents were born in Zimbabwe and she has happy memories of her early childhood there with parents, grandparents and cousins nearby.

In this session, you will be provided with a model for thinking about the future as well as a one-page visioning exercise to use to start your futures thinking.

Professor Carlos has worked with over 100 family-owned businesses in Europe and Latin America, helping to develop long-term family strategies and protocols. He also serves as an Independent Director on several Boards and Family Councils.

He holds a Law degree from the University of Navarre, a PDG from IESE Business School and a PhD from the “Business & Humanities Institute” (subject: “The Family Council”). He has been a Visiting Researcher in Washington, Boston, London, Santiago de Chile and Lima.

He founded, and is a consultant to, various Family Business Chapters or Associations in Spain, Chile and Peru, which are linked to the Family Business Network. In addition, he helped to establish Family Business specialism at the University of Oviedo (Spain) and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (Chile).

He has delivered his projects at several professional conferences throughout Europe and Latin America and lectured in Advance Executive Family Business programmes at IE (Instituto de Empresa), San Telmo, EAE (Escuela de Alta Gestión Empresarial), ESE (Universidad de los Andes), PUC Escuela de Negocios (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), PAD (Universidad de Piura), AEF Chile, AEF Perú & AATT (Instituto de Empresa familiar, España) among many others.

Carlos Arbesú is the author of the book “La Familia y Otros Negocios”, coordinator and co-author of the book “Claves de la Empresa Familiar”, and has published many articles and case studies on family business topics. He also serves on the Board of philanthropic initiatives such as “Fundación Mas Familia” and “Codefam” (Cooperation for the Development of Families). Carlos lives in Madrid, Santiago and Lima.

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Christian is the founder of Family Legacy Asia, a process consulting firm based in Hong Kong. He assists family enterprises around Asia with family governance, succession, and family learning & development.

He facilitates family meetings and helps families to form and implement family councils, family constitutions and family policies, often in the context of transition planning. He also advises several ultra-high net worth Asian families on trust and succession matters, including acting as a director of private trust companies. His philosophy is that such structures work best when based on understanding the unique culture and relationships within the family.

Christian originally qualified and practiced as a solicitor in South Australia from 1990 to 1994.  He moved to Hong Kong in late 1994 joining PricewaterhouseCoopers and became a partner and head of their Trust & Private Client Group. In July 2002 he joined JPMorgan Private Bank to head the bank’s Wealth Advisory team for Asia. 

He left JPMorgan and founded Family Legacy Asia in July 2008 to provide independent advice to Asian families on family governance & succession issues. In addition, from May 2016 he became an associate with Wise Counsel Research, a nonprofit think-tank and boutique consultancy based in Massachusetts USA, focused on matters of wealth and philanthropy.  

In June 2017, Christian received the award for Leading Individual (Advisor) at the WealthBriefingAsia 2017 Awards, Singapore.

Christian is the author of the chapter on Family Offices in Hong Kong in the book “Family Offices: The STEP Handbook for Advisors” and the chapter on Trusts, Trustees & Family Business in the book “Trust in Prime Jurisdictions” both published by Globe Business Publishing Limited. He contributed a chapter on “Practical tools for building healthy families” to the book “Wealth of Wisdom, the Top 50 questions Wealthy Families Ask” by McCullough and Whitaker, Wiley, 2019. He has also been a regular contributor to The International Family Offices Journal.

www.familylegacyasia.com

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Thomasina’s work in the wealth management and family business consulting arenas focuses primarily on families, rather than their financial assets. She works with business-owning families and individuals helping them build stronger relationships, have conversations about sensitive subjects, and make difficult decisions so that their family flourishes and their business thrives across generations. 

She was the first consultant hired by one of the largest private banks in the U.S. to go in-house and play a leadership role in building a new internal group to support its ultra-high net worth clients in navigating the family side of wealth.

Prior to her work with families, Thomasina practised law in Miami where she was recognized as one of the Top 250 Lawyers in South Florida, the Miami-Dade County Commission acknowledged her extensive pro bono legal work on public interest cases by naming a day in her honour, and a local bar association proclaimed her a “Living Legend.”

Between her groundbreaking accomplishments as a lawyer and her current work helping families transform their lives and their legacies, Thomasina was a program officer at the Ford Foundation, the second-largest private philanthropic institution in the U.S. At the Ford Foundation, she made more than $42 million in investments to strengthen the non-profit sector.Her own family’s lived experience fuels Thomasina’s passion for helping other families avoid the fracturing of family relationships and the loss of wealth that defines the “shirtsleeves-to-shirtsleeves-in-three generations” proverb for far too many family businesses around the globe.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School. She holds certificates in Advanced Family Business Advising and Family Wealth Advising from the Family Firm Institute. She is also a member of the Purposeful Planning Institute, where she serves on its Advisory Board; the Galliard Family Business Advisor Institute; the Independent Trustee Alliance and The Florida Bar. Additionally, Thomasina serves on the Advisory Board of Enterprising Women magazine, which reaches nearly a million women entrepreneurs in 185 countries around the globe. Thomasina also serves as a Teaching Fellow with Heroic Public Speaking, a leading training company for keynote speakers worldwide.

She is based in Florida, in the U.S.A., and is the founder of Sankofa Legacy Advisors. Thomasina can be reached directly via LinkedIn or e-mail at [email protected], or via her firm website - www.sankofalegacyadvisors.com

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Latin America and Africa share many similarities as regions where the honor-culture is prevalent. In this episode, TsiTsi and Nike are joined by Enrique Cordero as they compare notes with him on Family Governance and Next Generation.

Enrique is an Advisor in Family Business in the Establishment of Governance and the Drafting of Family Protocols from the Universidad National de Ingenieria (UNI-PRODEF) in Nicaragua. His work consists of accompanying family businesses in the process of reducing conflict, establishing governance, setting clear rules in the relationship between family and business, and as a final product, drafting the family protocol.

For sixteen years, Enrique served as founder, President, and CEO of EMCOR, S.A. in Nicaragua, leading the graphic arts family business which maintained the ISO 9000:2000 certification for 10 years. With his experience, Enrique contributed his knowledge in marketing and graphic arts, making the business the leader in the market and advising his clients in their businesses and providing creative solutions. 

Enrique is also an Adjunct Professor in the Universidad Americana (UAM) for the Master in Business Administration program. He has given many seminars about all these topics.He can be found here.

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Between 6 April 2020 and 27 April 2020, AFF held FB 21 - a virtual global family business conference with 86 conntributors from all over the world. The theme was "Reinventing and Rebooting Family Businesses", aimed to bring positive tools to help you through the COVID-19 pandemic.

David Bork is an original pioneer in the field of family business consulting and among the world's leaders in family business consultants. Since 1968, he has assisted more than 450 families with expansion, succession management, governance structures, and setting boundaries. 

As CEO/President of Family Business Matters,David leads a team of advisors who serves families all around the world. He is the author of The Little Red Book of Family Business, a pocket-sized text with insights into the most common trials and tribulations experienced by family businesses of all types and sizes. He is a renowned speaker.

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Between 6 April 2020 and 27 April 2020, AFF held FB 21 - a virtual global family business conference with 86 contributors from all over the world. The theme was "Reinventing and Rebooting Family Businesses", aimed to bring positive tools to help you through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Doris Scheibenbogen is a Family Business Owner and Consultant assisting with Conflict Mediation, Personal Coaching and Mentoring and Consultancy.

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Between 6 April 2020 and 27 April 2020, AFF held FB 21 - a virtual global family business conference with 86 contributors from all over the world. The theme was "Reinventing and Rebooting Family Businesses", aimed to bring positive tools to help you through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emma Rudge is a family business consultant at the Family Business Consultancy I work with business families on Family and business governance, Ownership transition, Management transition, Succession planning, Next-generation training and development,  communication and conflict management.

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