What we are building
A place to study family enterprise, succession, governance, and stewardship as one subject rather than five.
About Ashoka NextGen Leaders
It treats succession, governance, and stewardship as academic questions. Students work through them here, before they meet them at home.
For many students, the enterprise is a living institution shaped by family history, employees, communities, reputation, and decisions made across generations.
Yet students rarely have a structured undergraduate forum to discuss the questions they will face: how the next generation earns legitimacy, how family and management are separated, and how values survive growth. ANG puts those questions on a calendar, in front of people who have had to answer them.
Who we hope to shape
Next-generation leaders who can question an inherited institution as well as run one.
How we work
Peer circles, workshops, speakers, mentorship, and off-campus visits, organised across four chapters and governed by a written charter.
What advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country.
Jamsetji Tata · Founder, Tata Group
It involves psychology, economics, law, ethics, history, organisational behaviour, and political economy. ANG brings those perspectives together in a student-led setting.
Members build the vocabulary and the arguments to lead responsibly, drawing on the critical and ethical training Ashoka teaches everywhere else.
- Open to every enrolled student, with no family enterprise background required.
- Interdisciplinary: psychology, economics, law, ethics, history, and governance.
- Governed by intellectual inquiry and public value rather than networking shortcuts.
- Student-led, with faculty oversight written directly into the charter.
Membership opens September 2026