Family wealth is complicated
Family wealth offers amazing opportunities, but also creates a burden of expectations. It raises questions about identity. Who am I without my family name? Do people like me or just what I can do for them? And uncertainty about purpose—am I free to choose or is my path pre-determined?
Sound familiar? You are not alone.
Your formal education is unlikely to have prepared you for these questions and challenges, and you may not yet have a trusted peer group who understands what it’s like to walk in your shoes.
Kore Venture is designed for you.
Why join Kore Venture?
Created for emerging leaders raised in wealthy families, Venture is a rare opportunity to find your purpose and prepare for the complexities, opportunities and expectations of living in a high-profile family. Venture offers the freedom to explore questions about identity, purpose, personal ability and self-worth—without fear of failure—and within a confidential environment of peers who are on the same journey. Venture helps you become the best version of yourself.
Delivered over three residentials in the USA, UK, and Austria, Kore Venture is a learning experience like no other. We bring you the best of the best from global business families, academics from leading institutions, family relationship experts, noted authors and, of course, your peers so that you can learn from their wisdom and life experience.
We create a safe environment for real conversation and honest reflection, and we match you with a life coach to support you every step of the way.
Venture will help you...
Grow in wisdom and the virtues required for success in life
Venture will help you develop resilience, resourcefulness, perseverance, tenacity, gratitude, generosity and humility.
Deepen essential skills and competencies to steward wealth
You’ll develop business and investment acumen, enhanced interpersonal skills, intercultural intelligence, leadership and influence, savviness in media and reputation management and discernment in philanthropy and social impact.
Develop a global network of peers
You’ll build a global eco-system of peers and be connected to families like yours with whom you can share knowledge, opportunities, relationships and experiences.
Endorsements
Dr. Edward Brooks, Executive Director of the Oxford Character Project
Stretching back to the ancient world, the questions of how to live a meaningful and satisfying life and how to live well with others in society have occupied the leading thinkers of each generation. The Oxford Character Project is delighted to partner with Kore Venture in helping an up-and-coming generation develop as the wise thinkers and good leaders our world desperately needs.
Dave Evans, co-author of Designing Your Life, co-founder of the Stanford Life Design Lab and Lecturer, Stanford Design Program
We’ve helped thousands of young people build a well-lived joyful life. But only recently have I come to appreciate the unique challenges facing those who create or inherit substantial wealth. I’m delighted to be part of Kore Venture and to help young people from families with abundance the world over find purpose and meaning and to become wise stewards of resources, opportunity, and influence.
Kore Venture Participant Feedback
“I can say with full honesty that Kore Venture has been one of the best things I’ve done in my life.”
“It’s a journey that will give you meaning, friendship, love, identity, but most importantly, the confidence to face the future without fear in your heart.”
“… what I didn’t realize I truly needed was a community of like-minded people, from similar backgrounds… And we’ve become like a family.”
“The [program] so far has given us a sense of safety and vulnerability, just to be able to be ourselves and to be open and be candid with one another.”
Kore Venture Parent Feedback
“It stretches them like they’ve never been stretched before as far as having to understand their purpose in life.”
“The joy that we’re taking away from this, from seeing our adult children grow into womanhood and manhood, you can’t put a measure on that.”
“This was by far the most impacting and meaningful thing she’s done.”
“She’s moved from an insecurity to an ownership of who she is and why she’s here.”
James Grubman PhD, family wealth consultant, author of Strangers in Paradise: How Families Adapt to Wealth Across Generations, and co-author of Cross Cultures: How Global Families Negotiate Change Across Generation
Fostering the Rising Generation around the world is immensely worthwhile on many levels – the individual, the family, and society. We all benefit when fortunate young people learn to fulfill the complex roles and responsibilities they will have as adults. Kore Venture is a wonderful initiative to help lead these individuals to find their purpose and their place as influential global citizens.
Todd DeKruyter, author of Navigating Life with More than Enough
The biggest struggle of my life has probably been understanding and accepting my identity as an inheritor. It still sounds odd for me to admit that out loud—but then that’s the very heart of this problem: there are so few people to talk to. It’s such a unique challenge. I wish a program like Kore Venture had existed in my 20s. The Kore Alliance team has come up with a thoughtful and comprehensive approach for helping inheritors grapple their unique struggles.
Mindy Kalinowski Earley, Family Office Exchange, Chief Learning Officer
Programs focused on educating rising generation members of wealthy families are becoming commonplace. What they lack is precisely what distinguishes Kore Venture from the rest: education of the whole person beyond the basics of financial literacy and family governance. Kore Venture addresses the realities of living with wealth, makes space to consider meaning and purpose in life and establishes peer cohorts and coaching relationships.
Dr. Mary Johnstone-Louis, Saїd Business School, University of Oxford
The times in which we live can leave us with a profound longing to live lives that are connected, coherent, and marked by sustained and meaningful community. For those making sense of their identity in light of family legacy, issues of authenticity, transparency, trust, and personal purpose can become burdensome; or can serve as a set of powerful orienting questions that guide one's life path. Kore Venture promises to be an incredibly valuable opportunity to thoughtfully and holistically consider these questions, a journey of discovery which I believe will deliver unexpected dividends for years to come. I’m looking forward to participating.
Marco Blankenburgh, International Director of KnowledgeWorkx
Young adults educated in a different culture to their parents often feel culturally isolated. A blend of family values from the past and those more recently absorbed as a global citizen living abroad often creates tension between conforming to family culture while allowing freedom for individual expression. Resolving this tension requires new skills and a different form of intelligence – intercultural intelligence. I am delighted to endorse and contribute to Kore Venture and to help participants and their families on this crucial journey to develop the intercultural intelligence they need to thrive as leaders in a complex and global world.
Mason, Kore Venture Participant
Connecting with a network of global families through Kore Alliance has already been a great help to me and my family. I'm looking forward to joining Kore Venture because as a recent college graduate, I'm facing a world of real-life decisions, pressures, and responsibilities. I'm asking big questions about my role within the family's business and philanthropic enterprises. Venture provides the structure to navigate the many positions that my family's wealth and influence finds me in. The support of experts and peers who share a similar background is exactly what I'm looking for in order to build a foundation for the next 20-30 years of my life.
Venture participants are…
- young inheritors ages 20s to early 30s
- from ultra-high-net-worth families around the globe
- typically, in postgraduate transition (at or near the completion of formal education)
- Determined to learn, grow, and become the best they can be