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Family Enterprise × Human Development × Venture Building

Who will continue your business legacy?

Continue. Transform. Or Create Anew.

NEXT LEGACY gives the next generation real business and venture experience before the family makes assumptions about succession—helping both generations discover what deserves to continue and what they are ready to build next.

Begin the Conversation Explore the Programme
For Families Explore succession before deciding succession.
For Next Gen Understand the legacy without giving up the right to choose your own path.
Through Real Experience Move from assumptions about potential to evidence from practice.

The Succession Question

Readiness cannot simply be inherited.

A family can transfer shares, assign a title or name a successor. But capability, commitment and identity develop differently.

The next generation may want to continue what the family built. They may want to modernise it, create something beside it, become an owner without becoming the operator—or discover that their path lies elsewhere.

NEXT LEGACY creates room to discover that before major succession decisions are made.

56%

identified specialised skills as a next-generation challenge.

44%

reported perceived lack of interest from next-generation family members.

41%

identified differences in values and vision.

Source: PwC Family Business Survey 2025 — Vietnam report; 32 Vietnam respondents.

Two Generations. Two Questions.

For Founders & Business-Owning Families

What do we genuinely want to continue?

Clarify the legacy, values, capabilities and responsibilities worth carrying forward—and understand what readiness should look like before transferring leadership or responsibility.

For the Next Generation

What do I genuinely want to build?

Understand the family business, experience businesses beyond the family environment, contribute to real ventures and test your own capacity and ideas before choosing the next step.

What NEXT LEGACY Is

A bridge between family legacy, next-generation development and real-world venture experience.

NEXT LEGACY integrates Family Enterprise × Human Development × Venture Building.

It is not a legal succession service. It is not a startup bootcamp. And it does not assume that the next generation must operate the family company.

It creates the conditions for better choices.

The 90-Day Journey

From inheritance as an assumption to leadership as a choice.

01 · Discover

Understand the legacy

Explore the business story, family values, capabilities, expectations and questions about the future.

02 · Explore

Experience real ventures

Meet founders and operators and see how businesses make decisions under uncertainty.

03 · Contribute

Work on something real

Join selected cases, challenges or venture experiments and create value before asking for a title.

04 · Create

Test your own idea

Develop an idea, talk with potential customers, test assumptions and receive practical feedback.

05 · Choose

Design the next chapter

Return to the family with more evidence about what to continue, transform, create—or prepare for next.

Lab of Ventures

Learn business by being closer to business.

Selected NEXT LEGACY experiences may take place through the DCI Venture Studio / Lab2Market venture-learning environment.

Real exposure. Real questions. Real responsibility.

Depending on participant fit, confidentiality and venture availability, participants may engage with selected startups, founders, innovation projects, venture cases and business experiments.

Founder conversations Startup exposure Business shadowing Problem discovery Customer conversations Market validation Venture sprints Idea experiments Pitch & feedback

The Ecosystem

Different people support different parts of becoming ready.

Founders & Operators

Operating stories, decisions, mistakes and trade-offs.

Mentors

Perspective from people who have built, led or developed businesses.

Coaches

Space for identity, leadership, relationships and difficult choices.

Investors

Market and investment perspectives where appropriate. Capital is not guaranteed.

For the Next Generation

What you can develop.

Business literacy

Customers, operations, value creation, finance, teams and business models.

Leadership evidence

Real experiences of responsibility, collaboration, decision-making and learning.

Entrepreneurial capability

Practice turning an idea or problem into something that can be tested.

Identity clarity

Evidence about what kind of leader, owner, entrepreneur or professional you may want to become.

A tested direction

Not necessarily a final answer—just a much more informed next step.

Broader exposure

Learn beyond the family environment through founders, ventures and practitioners.

For Families

What the family can learn.

A better succession conversation

Move from assumptions and expectations toward evidence and dialogue.

Greater visibility into readiness

See capability through experience rather than family position alone.

Next-generation aspirations

Understand what they want—not only what the family hopes they will want.

New possibilities

Surface ideas for new ventures, products, markets or business models.

Possible Next Chapters

Succession is one possibility—not the only one.

CONTINUE

Prepare to enter or lead the existing family enterprise.

TRANSFORM

Modernise or develop something new inside the family ecosystem.

CREATE

Launch a new venture, independently or alongside the family enterprise.

OWN DIFFERENTLY

Become a responsible owner without necessarily becoming the operator.

Choosing another professional path can also be a legitimate outcome. The objective is not to manufacture a successor. It is to make the next decision more informed.

Why This Ecosystem

Jen VuHuong / Jen International

Human development, leadership, coaching, entrepreneurship and professional identity learning. Jen has worked with leaders, founders and entrepreneurs across 50+ countries over 15+ years and is a PhD researcher at Tampere University.

DCI Venture Studio

A venture-studio environment focused on venture creation, founder co-creation, business-model development, shared talent and operational support.

Selected mentors, coaches, founders, operators and investors may participate according to cohort needs and availability.

How We Work

Legacy without coercion.

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Choice matters.
The next generation is not required to inherit an operating role.

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Ownership is not readiness.
Family position and leadership capability remain different questions.

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Confidentiality matters.
Family and business information is shared only within agreed boundaries.

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Ideas have owners.
Participant, venture and studio IP is clarified before collaboration.

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Investment stays separate.
Programme participation never guarantees funding or commercial endorsement.

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Formal succession needs specialists.
NEXT LEGACY does not replace legal, tax, ownership, governance or financial advisers.

FAQ

Questions worth asking before you begin.

Does the next generation have to join the family business?

No. The programme is designed to improve the quality of the choice, not determine the choice.

Is NEXT LEGACY succession consulting?

Not in the legal, tax or ownership-transfer sense. It focuses on human readiness, leadership development, business experience and entrepreneurial experimentation.

What is the role of DCI Venture Studio / Lab2Market?

It provides selected venture-learning contexts, cases and experiments. Participation depends on fit, confidentiality and availability.

Does participation include investment?

No. Investors may contribute perspective or feedback where relevant. Any future investment process remains separate and follows its own criteria.

Can participants develop an idea unrelated to their family company?

Yes. Independent ideas can be explored. The programme is interested in the participant's genuine direction, not only opportunities that fit the current family enterprise.

Can founders and next-generation members participate together?

Yes. The design can include both separate and joint conversations because some questions require personal space and others require family alignment.

Begin the Conversation

The question is not only “Who will take over?”
It is “Who is becoming ready—and what do they genuinely want to build?”

NEXT LEGACY begins with a conversation about the family, the business and the next generation.

No succession decision is required. No venture idea is required.

Express Interest

Expression of Interest

Begin with your family's question.

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