Family wealth is complicated
Family wealth offers amazing opportunities, but also creates a huge burden. Can I ever live up to all that is expected of me?
It raises questions about identity and doubts about friendship. Who am I without my family name? Do people like me for who I am or just what I can do for them?
It also creates uncertainty about purpose. Am I free to choose or is my path pre-determined?
Your college education has not prepared you for these and other challenges related to wealth. And you may not yet have a trusted peer group who understands what it’s like to walk in your shoes and with whom you can be honest about your unique circumstances.
If this sounds familiar, you are not alone.
Kore Venture is designed for you.
Why join Kore Venture?
The heart of Kore Venture is our belief in the extraordinary value of every person—not based on their wealth or family name but on their infinite worth and potential. Our vision is to see you flourish irrespective of your family circumstances.
Kore Venture is a rare opportunity to discover your true identity, find deeper purpose and prepare for the complexities, opportunities and expectations of living in a family of significant means and influence. Venture provides the freedom to explore your aspirations and abilities and to discuss expectations and doubts—without fear of failure—within a confidential environment of peers who are on the same journey.
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 space 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
Grow in wisdom and the virtues required for sucess as inheritors of family wealth and as leaders in business and society with a particular focus on: resilience, humility, gratitude, generosity and service, creativity and courage.
Answer life’s big questions
- Who am I and who do I want to become? (forming identity within and beyond your family)
- What is my purpose and place in the world and in my family? (discovering your unique purpose and contribution to society)
- How do I best use what I have received? (learning how to multiply your talents, financial resources, access and influence most impactfully)
Develop a global network of peers
Build a trusted group of peers and be connected to families like yours with whom you can share knowledge, opportunities, relationships and experiences.
Acquire life design skills and create a life plan
Drawing on Stanford University Life Design Lab, acquire tools and skills and together with your personal coach, develop a life plan to get started on your journey.
Endorsements
Dennis T. Jaffe, Ph.D., research associate at Wise Counsel Research, and author of Borrowed From Your Grandchildren: The Evolution of 100-Year Family Enterprise
Young people growing up in a wealthy, successful family have a lot going for them. But they also face some deep challenges—discovering who they are and what they want to do given the special life they lead. Families want their rising generation to succeed and be responsible, but they are not usually aware of how challenging and difficult that can be. Kore Venture is a learning journey that takes young people from family enterprises, that offers them an opportunity to define who they are, learn about themselves, and begin to chart their own path independent and alongside the family’s wealth and privilege. This is not something that can be done in a weekend. The depth of the Kore Venture offers a set of experiences and a supportive community to learn and grow together at a momentous and critical period of life. There is nothing like it to be found anywhere.
James Grubman, Ph.D., 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.
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.”
Edward Brooks, Ph.D., 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.
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.
Mary Johnstone-Louis, Ph.D., 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.
How to get involved...
Happy Hours
Casual, virtual, invitation-only gatherings for young inheritors to connect and share experiences.
Roundtables
Closed, structured, virtual learning sessions, featuring speakers on topics such as Emotional Resilience, Character in Crisis, and Success That Truly Satisfies.
Kore Venture Kickstarter
A weekend event for those interested in the Kore Venture experience that includes structured learning sessions featuring highlighted speakers from the Kore Venture Immersive program, as well as time for discussion and self-reflection.
An immersive learning journey that takes place part-time in three countries over four months. Along with a cohort of 14, you will ask questions about identity apart from family and resources, you will gain a community of like-minded friends, and acquire new tools that will help you navigate the complexities and opportunities of a life with wealth.