Leading Family Business Mentor in India
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Meet Sandesh Vasant Mestry: A Visionary in Family Business Consulting.For over two and a half decades, Sandesh Vasant Mestry has been a guiding force for family-owned businesses across India, helping them navigate the complexities of succession planning, governance, and strategic growth. As a pioneer in family business consulting, his mission is clear: to help family businesses reach their full potential.
Drawing from his firsthand experience in his own family business, Sandesh deeply understands both the rewards and challenges that come with running a multi-generational enterprise. His unique approach blends practical insights with proven frameworks, empowering families to build sustainable businesses while fostering trust and cohesion.
Expertise That Transforms Businesses
Through his strategic guidance, Sandesh has helped family businesses overcome challenges including:
- Crafting future-ready strategies for growth and expansion
- Structuring governance frameworks to professionalise operations
- Mentoring business owners to adapt and stay relevant
- Succession planning that ensures continuity and stability
Financial and wealth management for long-term prosperity
- Exit strategies tailored for business transitions
A commerce graduate from Mumbai University (1989), Sandesh is an alumnus of SPJIMR, Mumbai; IIM Ahmedabad; and ISB Hyderabad. His commitment to fostering entrepreneurship led him to mentor at CIIE—an initiative by IIM Ahmedabad.
In 2010, he co-authored “GO FLY HIGH – Success Ideas for Growing Businesses”, a business novel that continues to inspire entrepreneurs.
Based in Thane, near Mumbai, India, Sandesh remains dedicated to helping family businesses balance tradition with innovation to build lasting success.
OUR LOGO
Why Elephants?
Elephants are among the strongest creatures on Earth, yet their power is magnified when they move together as a herd. This reflects a core principle of family businesses—their success grows when family members unite toward a shared vision.
Leading the herd is the female elephant, a symbol of wisdom, resilience, and nurturing leadership. In nature, the matriarch guides her group, ensuring survival and stability through her deep knowledge and instincts. Similarly, in family businesses, women play a vital role in holding the family together, fostering trust, and steering the business forward. Often working behind the scenes, their influence shapes decision-making, preserves traditions, and strengthens relationships—serving as the true glue of the enterprise.
Why the grey shaded Honeycomb pattern?
The honeycomb pattern in the logo represents the importance of networking and structured collaboration in business. Just as bees work in harmony to build a strong foundation, successful family businesses rely on interconnected relationships and seamless cooperation.
The black, grey, and white shades symbolise the grey areas that naturally exist in family businesses – unspoken challenges, emotional complexities, and decisions that are not always transparent to all members. A thriving family enterprise must recognise, address, and navigate these uncertainties, ensuring clarity and trust as it evolves. Strong governance structures help families align their present realities with their future aspirations, ensuring lasting success.
A Logo That Embodies Tradition & Growth This emblem is more than just a design—it represents the core philosophy of family business leadership. Strength comes from unity. Clarity leads to success. And leadership, often nurtured through unseen yet powerful roles, ensures the continuity of both the family and the business.
Guiding Family Businesses Toward Success
At the heart of every thriving family business lies a delicate balance—between tradition and innovation, relationships and professionalisation, legacy and future growth. Navigating this landscape requires structured guidance, strategic planning, and unwavering commitment. Our consulting process is designed to provide personalised mentorship and hands-on interventions, helping family businesses build strong governance, create wealth, and achieve sustainable success for generations to come.
Our Four-Phase Consulting Process
We take a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to transform family businesses. This structured methodology ensures that families understand their strengths, overcome challenges, and build a foundation for long-term prosperity.
Education: Laying the Foundation
Before a family business can chart its path to success, it must understand itself—its legacy, strengths, and the unique dynamics that shape its future. This phase focuses on:
- Developing self-awareness and clarity about the family’s role in business
- Understanding why family businesses require distinct strategies
- Identifying keys to success, best practices, and common pitfalls
- Using Family Genograms to strengthen relationships and improve communication
- Establishing the importance of governance structures and family constitutions
- Learning how effective communication and boundary-setting foster stability
- Exploring wealth creation strategies tailored to family-owned enterprises.
This phase lays the intellectual groundwork, ensuring that the family has the knowledge and awareness to make informed decisions.
Planning: Structuring the Future
Once the foundation is set, families need a strategic blueprint for growth. This phase is focused on
- Understanding individual aspirations and aligning them with business goals
- Creating action plans based on self-awareness and personal choices
- Grooming successors to lead with confidence and competence
- Defining what professionalisation means and how to implement it
- Refining listening skills to improve trust and collaboration
- Giving and receiving feedback effectively to foster accountability
- Crafting a vision for the future that integrates family and business needs
- Formulating a strategic business plan that supports continuity and expansion
This stage ensures that family members have a clear roadmap for their roles, responsibilities, and future ambitions.
Implementation: Turning Plans into Reality
With a plan in place, execution becomes the key to success. This phase focuses on building operational discipline and ensuring long-term sustainability
- Setting action plans to manage business systematically
- Developing tactical interventions to achieve strategic goals
- Defining roles and responsibilities to enhance efficiency
- Establishing decision-making processes that promote clarity and fairness
- Recruiting the right talent for key business positions
- Implementing financial monitoring and MIS systems for tracking growth
- Conducting periodic reviews to refine strategies based on evolving needs
- Creating governance mechanisms at board and operational levels
- Strengthening the business-family interface to maintain harmony
This phase ensures accountability, operational efficiency, and structured decision-making, bringing the family’s vision into action.
Mentoring: Sustaining Growth & Leadership
Even the most well-laid plans require ongoing guidance and adaptation. This phase provides continuous mentoring to ensure the family business evolves smoothly
Coaching family members and non-family professionals for leadership development
- Periodic structured reviews to enhance governance and performance
- Advisory support in overcoming business challenges
- Refining decision-making processes as the business matures
- Ensuring that family values, traditions, and professionalisation evolve in sync
Mentoring provides the stability and foresight needed for long-term success, ensuring seamless transitions across generations.