At Courage Partners, we advise business families in mature and emerging markets on all aspects of being a future-proof business family – from strategic succession and portfolio performance to excellent execution, insightful investments and intelligent innovation. We always put the “Family First”, but have a deep understanding of all related business aspects too, with the capability to shape them according to the family’s long-term goals.
At the Courage Institute we bring together global expertise to design and deliver immersive, transformative learning experiences for business families, their leaders, and trusted service providers. Our custom-tailored programs equip next-generation leaders to successfully steward their family enterprises, legacies, and positive impact on society.
At the Courage Center, we rigorously research upcoming business family challenges and provide cutting-edge insight and thought leadership on future strategies.
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Courage Partners
Courage Partners is a collaborative of hand-selected professionals with over 100 years of combined experience in multinational family-controlled businesses, holding companies, family offices, and leading global universities.
Over the past 20 years, we have built a globally mobile & highly trusted high-performance team that blends deep expertise in family enterprise systems with real-world executive experience. We combine highly educated family business experts and experienced senior executives, all with a deeply entrepreneurial mindset and passion for business families.
Our team is complemented by a global network of world-class practise experts in all fields adjacent to our core services. Leveraging strong connections across Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Europe, we deliver insights guidance and solutions that are both locally relevant and globally informed.
Courage Institute
The Courage Institute is a platform for family enterprise education, combining international insights, practitioner experience, and innovative learning design. Our mission is to equip business families and their next generations with the capabilities to steward their enterprises, preserve their legacies, and create a positive societal impact.
We design custom-made education programs for business families, family business executives, and universities, delivered in distinctive settings ranging from intimate retreats to global classrooms or even a race yacht.
By combining real-world practitioner insights from global projects with local realities, we develop approaches that strengthen entrepreneurial capacity, enhance portfolio performance, and ensure long-term continuity across generations. We are a trusted partner in preparing successors, reinforcing governance, and empowering service providers to shape resilient, future-ready family enterprises.
Courage Center
The Courage Center for Global Family Entrepreneurship and Wealth, based at Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, is the research and academic arm of Courage. Located within one of Latin America’s leading private universities, the Center blends practical insight with academic expertise to create avant-garde knowledge on family entrepreneurship, wealth, succession, and continuity.
The Center has contributed cutting-edge research to the global field of family entrepreneurship and innovation, producing research such as “The Asset-Agnostic Approach of Southeast Asian Business Families” (2025), “The Role of Capabilities in Ownership Succession in Southeast Asian Business Families” (2024), “Next-Generation Entrepreneurial Identity in Family Business Systems” (2022), “Global Innovation Leadership: The Strategic Development of Worldwide Innovation Competence” (2009), and “Dynamic Dynasties: How Germany’s High-Performance Family Firms Leverage Business Opportunities Along Technology Lifecycles” (2011).
Each year, the Courage Center engages and connects business family members and executives from around the world through university courses, seminars, conferences, and intimate discussions held across Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
Courage Values
We are driven by the values represented in our slogan „Future. Family. Firms.“ We put „Family First“ through our loyalty and empathy, and secure the Future of the Family Firms through performance in our projects.
Loyalty
We believe that loyalty and integrity are the base for successful companies and healthy relationships, and are therefore at the core of our business. At Courage we serve our clients, and only them in their interests, in a loyal, truthful and always constructive manner.
Empathy
We strive to be deeply empathic to our clients needs and goals. Based on such deep understanding of what truly matters to them and combined with full dedication and elegant refinement, we find creative solutions others might not see.
Performance
Our work is driven by an alchemy of creative entrepreneurship, hard work, and rigorous execution to courageously move forward for our clients. Ultimately, our clients hold us accountable for their future wellbeing and measure us on the basis of real outcomes, returning us their trust and continued collaboration, based on our performance.