Anneleen Michiels, PhD, is associate professor of finance and family business at the Research Center for Entrepreneurship and Family firms at Hasselt University, Belgium. She is a former chair of the Strategic Interest Group on Family Business Research at the European Academy of Management and a past FOBI scholar. Her research focuses on the influence of money on the family business and the business family and is published in academic as well as practitioner-oriented journals.

Esanju Bonga is a registered psychotherapist who has worked with individuals and families facing a variety of challenges in various contexts for over 20 years. In financial therapy, she works with members of family businesses, those who have acquired sudden wealth, and those who come from generations of affluence. Her primary goal is to teach people to thrive in healthy ways independently. Esanju also helps people improve healthier communication within their family systems.

Ria N. Mankee-Sookram is an attorney, family business advisor, and mediator. Her work with family enterprises includes developing succession plans and governance practices that enhance communication and facilitate next-generation capacity, guiding families to overcome challenges to create a successful and fulfilling generational transfer of wealth, values, and legacies. She also acts as a collaborator with other family enterprise advisors and practitioners to bring clarity to community planning that inspires family engagement and communication.

Wanja Michuki is managing director of Be Bold Consulting & Advisory Ltd., which provides family enterprises with consulting and advisory services in the areas of governance, management, and ownership in preparation for succession events. Wanja is a chartered financial analyst and a graduate of Columbia Business School and Bryn Mawr College. She is also a Salzburg Global Fellow and was recently appointed to the Advisory Board of Columbia Global Centers | Nairobi.

Luis Carlos Garrido-Lecca, MBA, is senior consultant at Garrido-Lecca Ganoza & Asociados, a consulting firm that he founded with his father and brothers. After an initial career as an industrial engineer, Luis pivoted to consulting and earned his MBA, with an emphasis on operations management, at INCAE Business School in Costa Rica. He is also commercial director and a professor of management operations at UNIS Business School in Guatemala City and a visiting professor for the PAD Escuela de Dirección in Peru.

Vinod Thakur, PhD, is an assistant professor in strategy at FORE School of Management, New Delhi, India. He has worked with consulting firms throughout India, the Middle East, and Africa. He received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, with his dissertation focusing on the family constitution as a family governance tool for business families.