Courtney Collette is Lecturer on Family Enterprise at MIT Sloan School of Management. For more than 20 years, she has been an educator, researcher, and advisor to enterprising families and ownership groups around the world on long-term success strategies. She designs and teaches in open and custom MIT executive education programs on family enterprise, including the flagship Future Family Enterprise program, where she is also lead coach.
Courtney's work spans issues related to family unity, governance, next generation readiness and engagement, educating families, succession transitions, owner strategy, family offices, and overall family enterprise strategy. Her work as an education strategist prepares owning-families, through learning, for their enterprise's and family's next growth phase. She designs courses, programs, and experiential activities that build family engagement, unity, resilience, and readiness for the future.
Courtney is a partner at Cambridge Family Enterprise Group, an international education and advisory organization, where she leads its education and research institute. She oversees education programming, designs and leads open and bespoke programs, and teaches diverse family audiences worldwide. She delivers talks at conferences and family business centers.
Prior to MIT, Courtney spent 13 years at Harvard Business School researching, case-writing, and designing family enterprise MBA courses and executive education programs.
Courtney has authored several works on family enterprise success, including numerous articles, case studies, and multimedia courseware, and has co-authored two books: Next Generation Success and Family Office Navigator.
