INDIA
WOOLDRIDGE
When values become strategy, alignment becomes advantage.
Many family offices were created to protect and grow wealth, yet the factors that now shape long-term outcomes are relational and reputational rather than financial. How this critical shift is addressed determines whether a family thrives across generations.
Alignment builds generational wealth.
Misalignment erodes it.
Much of this work takes place privately. I speak on the insights that emerge from it: family dynamics and values as the strategic forces shaping leadership, governance and enduring legacy, particularly during moments of transition.
Core Themes
Alignment Over Alpha
Why financial performance alone does not sustain generational wealth, and how alignment across people, purpose and impact becomes a source of resilience.
When Values Become Strategy
How values move from statements into operating principles that shape governance, leadership and real decisions across generations.
Today’s Reputation Is Tomorrow’s Legacy
Why a values-driven brand is not exposure but control, shaping identity, intent and long-term credibility in an increasingly complex environment.
In Conversation
The Tamarind Learning Podcast
Simple Panel
Who It’s For
These sessions are for principals, family office leaders, rising generation family members and the advisors who work closely with them, particularly during transitions.
Formats include keynote talks, panels, moderated conversations and private sessions.
About India
India Wooldridge is the founder of Catalyst, a boutique advisory working with multigenerational families and family offices on alignment, governance and long-term stewardship. Her work focuses on how families translate values into leadership, decision-making and continuity across generations and structures.
India’s background is in global cultural research. As Senior Vice President of Consumer Intelligence at McCann, she led international research into how individuals, families and communities form identity, values and make decisions. That perspective now underpins her work with families navigating transition, complexity and long-term direction.
Having lived and worked across four continents, India brings a global lens to issues of governance, participation and continuity in cross-border family enterprises. She writes regularly on family alignment, stewardship and influence in the context of generational wealth, with recent contributions to The Rising Role of Women in Family Offices and Family Businesses. She is currently co-leading Generation Impact, research exploring how the rising generation is shaping values, decision-making and participation.
India has spoken at conferences and forums across four continents, addressing audiences of up to 1,000 people. Her speaking experience includes SXSW, The New York Times and Advertising Week, alongside family office–focused conversations with Simple and Tamarind Learning, and private advisory roundtables.