Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO) and chaired for fifteen years, EO’s premiere CEO program, the “Birthing of Giants” and WEO’s “Advanced Business” executive program both heled at MIT. Founder and CEO of Gazelles, a global executive education and coaching company with over 150 coaching partners on six continents, Verne has spent the past three decades helping companies scale-up, columnist for FORTUNE magazine. He’s the author of Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time: How Apple, Ford, IBM, Zappos, and others made radical choices that changed the course of business Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growth Firm (Rockefeller

Habits 2.0); Mastering the Rockefeller Habits; and along with the editors of Fortune, authored “The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times” for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword.

Verne also chairs FORTUNE Magazine’s annual Leadership and Growth Summits and serves on several boards including chairman of The Riordan Clinic and the newly launched Geoversity.