‘Re-Think’ Webinar : Blood, Bonds and Business : Leadership Insights from Family Firms
25 Jun 2025
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Let’s face it – family firms were here first. Research confirms they consistently outperform non-family firms. In many developed and developing countries, their contribution to GDP exceeds 50%. In India, that number is an astonishing – yet somehow unsurprising – 79%.
Let’s accept it – family businesses have long been labeled as unprofessional. In India, they’re often referred to as ‘Lala companies’. They were once shunned at MBA campuses. But not anymore. Today, some of India’s brightest talent now sit in leadership positions and still more are choosing to build careers in these firms.
It is only recently that hard data and research have turned the spotlight back onto these businesses and their unique configurations.
What can these long-surviving, high-performing, successful enterprises teach others? What lessons can ‘professionally managed’ companies learn from them?
Anahat has invited P.M. Kumar, one of India’s most respected HR leaders and OD consultants, to lead this conversation. PM – as he is known to close colleagues and friends – now works exclusively with family-owned businesses. Having worked with both, corporates and family firms, he brings a unique, nuanced perspective on what makes family run businesses tick.
Anahat’s Re-Think Webinars are designed to build perspectives – and break them. Come with your questions. Leave with powerful leadership insights from India’s most enduring businesses.
Prasad Kumar is the Founder of Human Endeavour Associates, a niche consultancy firm specializing in strategic advisory for owner and partner led companies, family businesses and corporates.
He has worked in senior executive roles, with many leading companies, partnering in their growth and success.
His experience with Family Business Advisory and Corporate Development spans over five decades.
Most of his engagements are long term partnerships, integrating the cultural and structural dimensions for Growth, Governance and Institution Building. Helping organization and people to get “future ready” is key to his mission.
He is engaged in coaching of Board members, top management and senior leaders across industries and is an active Life Coach to business leaders.
His last positions were Business Chairman and member of the GMR Group Holding Board, Chairman of RAXA (Homeland Security).
He founded Parampara Family Business Institute and was its Vice Chairman and Managing Director. Post retirement, he is now Advisor and Academic Council member.
He has been member of:
- The Economic Times Advisory Panel on Family Business
- The Economic Times Advisory Panel on Corporate Board Governance
- Advisor New Trusteeship Services
A postgraduate in Management and accredited in Applied Behavioral Sciences, Prasad has been a Certified Professional of the International Association of Facilitators and a Life Member of the Association.
He teaches specialized modules in Family Business, Leadership and Succession at many leading business schools.
He has also been Executive-in-Residence at the Kellogg School of Management, NW University, Chicago, USA.
Anahat’s ‘Re-Think’ Webinar Series are both perspective builders and perspective shifters. The ‘Re-Think’ webinars will invite speakers to talk on subjects that seem obvious but yet not quite so obvious, about things that we know and don’t quite know enough about. They are for the curious, for the seekers, for those willing to let themselves be challenged by a different perspective. They are short! 90 minutes. An hour of talk followed by a half hour of what got triggered by the talk. They are meant to be conversations of the kind Theodore Zeldin wrote about, “… one which you start with a willingness to emerge a slightly different person”
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