Bespoke Legacy Curation Atelier
& Family Governance Maison
Cutting-Edge Legacy Practice with a Participatory Design - Read Our WHY Below
We help iconic families map, capture, narrate, structure, preserve or re-energise, build upon, showcase, control, maximise, and pass on their legacies to their next-generation of legacy guardians, as well as guide individuals and families become iconic. Your legacy is your single most important asset and competitive advantage, a complexity premium. Benefit from our sought-after legacy practice offering bespoke legacy curatorial projects, strategic legacy advisory, and tailored immersive legacy ateliers, as well as further purposeful legacy-based family governance ateliers designed specifically for your goals. We work globally with a deep cultural understanding to best represent your legacy. Expect exquisite writing, sumptuous illustrations, and beyond.
Bespoke Legacy Curations
Benefit from our bespoke legacy curatorial projects (explore our stunning portfolio) ideally complemented with our tailored legacy ateliers and strategic legacy advisory wherever you are around the world. We help you map, preserve or re-energise, catalogue, archive, narrate, shape, showcase, maximise, appreciate, represent, control, and transfer your complex individual or family legacy to your next generation in meaningful and purposeful ways. From immersive legacy ateliers, research, analysis, recordings, curating memories and key messages of individuals to curating and designing family member and family legacy portrayals or extensive legacy collections along with cataloguing, or creating your own family museum, archives, showrooms. We may also help you celebrate historic anniversaries or milestones and beyond. Our projects also provide you with the unique savoir-faire to ensure your thriving and resilient legacy for generations to come.
Family Governance, Family Culture,
Successions & Further Transitions
Legacies represent the very spine that connects your family eras, generations, family members, and their myriad of activities. We creatively harness legacies for family governance, succession, along with other transitions projects tailored for each business and legacy family, and high-flying individual helping them achieve a thriving and long-lasting legacy. Before or whilst you are discussing and making critical decisions on financial and legal structures, we can help you with all things family; family identity, family culture, rules of engagement, and your prestigious family legacy, including your own legacy marks. Ideal for an identity project or when there is already family fragmentation or family dynamics-related matters to enhance your family engagement and alignment, ensure family harmony, as well as anchor and inspire everyone. Create and re-calibrate your fitting family structures, plan for and execute on critical successions, or other transitions and ensure family engagement also within your trusts.
Meet Your Legacy Aesthete
Zita Nikoletta Verbényi is the Founder, Legacy Aesthete, and Strategic Advisor at The Legacy Atelier™. Zita is a top recommended family business adviser in 2021/22/23 by Spear’s 500 and a Philologist by background. She holds a wealth of expertise, experience, and profound insights into the most critical family legacy-related matters as well as vital dynamics and matters facing business and legacy families, and individuals of substantial wealth. Zita has worked closely with them and their entities for 12+ years, including 4 years at Campden Wealth in a senior content role. She has been connecting with hundreds of families and founders globally, covering, and helping make sense, and meaning of the most salient family business and office topics in various formats as a seasoned content creator and curator from her international content and programme producing, and directorial background. Zita brought together her passions and expertise to create The Legacy Atelier™ and strives to enhance legacy journeys globally. She is based in London and may work with her trusted Philologist friends, including top editors, librarians, archivists, on certain projects, always utilising the latest technologies and exquisite writing complemented by sumptuous illustrations.
The 1st PhD in Family Legacies
Zita is the first PhD Candidate in Family Legacies and holds an MA in Philology from ELTE University with a diploma in Comparative Aesthetics in Italian and a Programme in Cultural Management with a focus on libraries and museums. She started her PhD in Interculturalism, back in 2008, and after three years switched to the current multidisciplinary research, bringing Hermeneutics, further fields of Aesthetics, Philosophy, as well as Cultural Anthropology, and other Cultural Scientific fields, into Family Business Studies eliciting the strategic importance of these to help with her unique legacy curatorial as well as family works, beyond her research.
What Family Principals Say About Us
“Zita is extremely thoughtful and dedicated. Such a refreshing and effective approach, even with the most complex of cases.“
“These are the very legacy projects that we need to enhance our family identity, preserve our family legacy, and plan for the future together standing strong on our foundations.”
“Zita’s unique methodology is deeply impressive and it works!“ “Beautiful imagery and wording too, all very fitting and uplifting!”
Why?
We Are Driving A Much-Deserved Paradigm Shift Around Legacies
As per our Founder, Zita’s recent remarks: “Current references, scopes, extent of elaboration, and preservation practices around legacies within family business, family office, and investment circles are restrictive, outdated, and filled with incongruent statements. Current practices proposing to cover legacies focus mostly on the businesses, philanthropy, finances, and legalities, as well as family governance. These don’t only miss invaluable opportunities to provide a broader representation of intertwined individual and family legacies, e.g., with the creation of fascinating legacy portrayals and legacy collections. Current practices fully miss any legacy preservation activities and reduce any legacy harnessing and maximising efforts as well as offering guidance on how to ensure the longevity of complex legacies. A more extensive representation, and showcase of layered legacies, as well as the complex mechanisms with which legacies may be captured, preserved, harnessed, and transferred are essential to safeguard and future proof a family’s identity, harmony, heritage, traditions, as well as ensure the longevity of their family legacy”.
Mission
Business, enterprising, and legacy families around the world strive to ensure the longevity of their complex family, business, investment, and other activities making up their ever moving framework. What sets the world’s most innovative and prominent business and legacy families apart, is that they have been thriving for generations by focusing on their family legacies as their most critical competitive advantage, a complexity premium. We help families and individuals thrive by preserving, showcasing, benefiting from, shaping, structuring, maximising, and passing on their complex legacies.
Legacies are still mostly curated by historians and archivists covering only the historical and business aspects of a family and, amongst other aspects of old-school curatorial practices, as they do not work closely with the family members, can only depict a fragmented image of their legacy. We are committed to highlighting that legacies are highly complex, precious, undervalued, and underestimated, and we are in a unique position to help you enhance your legacy journeys on many levels. Legacies are to be understood, brought into a current relevance, re-evaluated and re-energised, and showcased in purposeful ways so that family principals, other family members, as well as their communities can benefit from these for generations to come.
Values & Pillars
Trust - Confidentiality - High Ethics - Thoughtfulness - Inclusion
Culture - Knowledge - Responsibility - Guardianship - Stewardship
Vision
The Legacy Atelier™ is the foremost Legacy Curation Atelier globally.
We're continuing to advocate and pioneer for the immense value that legacies represent via our unrivalled legacy curatorial projects, strategic legacy advisory, and tailored immersive legacy ateliers for individuals, families, and institutions globally. Ensuring that business and legacy families, as well as high-flying individuals, and their various entities around the world look beyond the finances, legalities, value frameworks, mission statements, and basic family governance practices when it comes to their legacies, and benefit from mapping, understanding, preserving, shaping, showcasing, maximising, harnessing, representing, controlling, and passing on their complex legacies as their competitive advantage, a precious complexity premium, their very spine, foundation, and source for family anchoring, engagement, education, inspiration, and a well-informed foresight on many levels, and across different contexts.
Our Founder has been passionately exploring the world of different narrative constellations since the age of 10, when her country of origin went through a whole narrative re-set. From the age of 13 came her intercultural immersions whilst spending summer weeks around Europe in international schools learning different languages. These experiences were followed by gradual explorations in Cultural Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Linguistics, History of Arts, Hermeneutics and further fields of Aesthetics, and Philosophy, prior to and during her university years and then PhD studies.
Exploring the World of Narratives
Family Businesses as Masterpieces?
Zita believes that multigenerational family businesses like yours, are masterpieces. She possesses a unique ability, and a trained comparatist brain, to map, analyse, synthesise, and purposefully curate the most critical and complex facets, threads, and overarching narratives of multigenerational business and legacy families through their different family eras; familyisms, as well as help anchor, engage, align, and inspire families for generations to come.
What Does Legacy Mean To You?
We help you connect and reconnect with your family legacy, including your own legacy, make sense of it, preserve it, build upon it, and thrive for generations to come. Should you wish, we may also help you ensure a robust family governance is in place to enable the longevity of your family, business, and further successes. Our legacy landscaping, framing and re-framing, educational, engaging, and bespoke, inspirational curatorial projects, and legacy ateliers offer interactive and joyful family experiences, generate powerful emotional connections, enhance family engagement, and drive prosperity for the family, and much beyond.