Advisor to Business Families
About
Walid S. Chiniara
40+ Years | Over 4 Continents | 200+ Families Advised | Recognized Globally
As a lawyer, mediator, and pioneer in family enterprise succession and conflict resolution, I specialize in navigating business families and Next Generation entrepreneurs through the intricacies of an increasingly volatile and ever-evolving global landscape.
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Our Ambition
To create 50 million jobs over the next 20 years, one family business at a time
We believe that the future of employment, entrepreneurship, and economic resilience will be shaped not solely by governments or global corporations, but by family businesses, those that understand their role as more than just commercial entities, but as intergenerational forces for growth and stability.
We are entering a decisive moment in history. A new generation is rising, more educated, mobile, and globally connected than ever before, just as trillions of dollars in global family wealth are poised to shift from one generation to the next. This is not merely a transfer of capital, but a transfer of responsibility, vision, and legacy.
At the same time, the foundations of traditional employment are being reshaped by AI, automation, and exponential technologies. Institutions that once provided structure, governments, universities, religious and civic bodies, are no longer able to carry the full burden of economic and social continuity.
In this new reality, private wealth is no longer passive. It is contested. Competing interests, from governments and sovereign wealth funds to private equity, VC platforms, and ideological entities, are all seeking to redirect this capital toward their own ends.
The question is no longer who has wealth, but who will steward it.
We believe it must be families. Not through improvisation or inertia, but through clarity, governance, and intentional succession planning.
Because when family businesses succeed, they do more than create jobs, they anchor communities, fuel innovation, and protect what matters most across generations.
Governance 3.0 and the Architecture of the After-After™
Our mission is built on a forward-facing framework we call Governance 3.0, a new standard for family enterprise governance in the 21st century. This is not governance for control, but governance for coherence. Not preservation for its own sake, but authorship of legacy, strategy, and purpose across generations.
Governance 3.0 empowers business families to lead with clarity in an age of volatility. It institutionalizes generational wisdom with the same rigor families apply to wealth preservation, ensuring that values, knowledge, and identity are passed on, not just capital.
At the heart of this framework lies a deeper philosophy: The After-After™.
Where most family succession planning ends, the After-After™ begins.
It asks not “What will the next generation inherit?” but “What will the generation after them remember?”
It shifts the focus from legacy as reputation, to legacy as momentum, a living force that grows across time.
The After-After™ is for families willing to act beyond their own horizon.
To build structures they may never benefit from directly.
To engage in intergenerational planning not just for continuity, but for regeneration.
We work with families who see the bigger picture.
Families who choose sovereignty over scale, and values over valuations.
Who no longer ask how much they own, but what they stand for.
Who treat job creation not as a philanthropic gesture, but as a strategic responsibility.
Who recognize that technology and disruption are not threats, but tools for adaptive resilience.
And who understands that governance, when designed well, is not bureaucracy, but collective meaning made durable.
We help them build institutions that breathe.
Where the past is honored.
Where the present is met with clarity.
And where the future is authored with grace.
Our mission is simple in form, radical in depth:
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To transform inheritance into intention
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To secure the future by unlocking the creative force of family enterprise
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To create 50 million jobs by aligning capital with character, governance with growth, and values with velocity
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To prepare families not just for tomorrow, but for the After-After™
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To build Governance 3.0: quiet, intentional, sovereign
This is not consultancy.
This is not traditional succession planning.
This is stewardship.
This is philosophical architecture.
This is governance, redefined.