Why Artios Institute

We Go Deeper to Prepare Rising-Gen
Family Members For Stewardship

Significant wealth is necessary fuel for conscious change,
requiring embodied leaders capable of creating great
things for the world.

ABOUT ARTIOS INSTITUTE

Artios Institute prepares the rising generation of ultra-high net worth families to embody a boundless capacity of stewardship, to preserve and progress generational wealth and personal wellbeing.

With our curated faculty of world-renowned luminary leaders and wealth advisory experts, we deliver the only complete transformational program to prepare the rising gen for sustainable family stewardship.

Through our immersive methodologies, time-tested over a decade, we go deeper to prepare family members. They emerge ready to embrace generational values and differences, foster deeper respect, to welcome communication, cultivate connection, and prepared for the impending responsibility. They flourish, feel connected, enjoy meaningful contribution, while increasing personal agency, resilience and fulfillment.

What separates Artios Institute from academic family business centers, family business advisors, family offices or executive coaching programs is our unmatched integration of relational and emotional realities of stewardship, human and family dynamics, and disciplined development of true wellbeing.

Learn more about our co-founders, advisory council and extraordinary  faculty below.

OUR CO-FOUNDERS

Chris Yonker and Shane Carter founded Artios out of a shared passsion and a deeply personal commitment to deliver a better development experience to ultra-high net worth families, so that generational wealth sustains, continues to expand, and families flourish along with it.

Chris Yonker has advised family enterprises for more than 15 years on succession, governance, leadership development, and the human dynamics that shape continuity. He has advised rising-generation members of some of the world’s largest family enterprises.

His commitment is personal. More than 20 years ago, Chris helped build a family-business startup that collapsed under the weight of unresolved family dynamics. That experience inspired his vision for Artios: preparing rising-generation leaders for the relational and emotional realities of stewardship, as well as its practical responsibilities.

Chris is a Certified Family Business Advisor, an NLP Practitioner, and a certified trauma-informed consultant whose studies include work with Thomas Hübl and Tony Robbins’ original mentor. A 7th-degree Master Black Belt, he brings decades of practice in disciplined development, self-mastery, and resilience to helping rising-generation leaders forge their own identities and lead with purpose.

Shane Carter brings nearly three decades of experience as an entrepreneur, investor, CEO, and business owner. Throughout his career, he has acquired, developed, owned, and managed more than $1 billion in assets across private equity, real estate development, and operating companies, while building and successfully exiting multiple businesses.

Grounded in the principle of Kaizen—continuous improvement—Shane has also spent decades exploring the inner dimensions of leadership through personal development, spiritual practice, emotional growth, and self-awareness. He believes enduring success depends as much on who we become as on what we accomplish.

At Artios, Shane brings together the discipline of an investor and entrepreneur, the perspective of a wealth creator and steward, and a deep commitment to human flourishing. He focuses on helping rising-generation leaders develop the character, self-awareness, and capability to forge their own identity, steward opportunity and wealth wisely, and build lives of meaning, purpose, and contribution.

THE ARTIOS ADVISORY COUNCIL

OUR FACULTY OF
WORLD-RENOWNED LUMINARY LEADERS

The Artios faculty brings together experienced leaders, coaches, teachers, and practitioners from across disciplines, united by a commitment to human development and meaningful transformation.

Drawing from leadership, business, psychology, somatic practice, contemplative wisdom, relationships, and systems thinking, our faculty offers decades of lived experience supporting people through growth, challenge, and change.

Throughout the Artios journey, faculty members serve as teachers, guides, and thought partners, creating spaces for participants to examine how they live, relate, make decisions, and build lives of greater purpose, connection, and impact.