Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 16,000
members worldwide, and chaired for fifteen years EO’s premiere CEO program, the “Birthing of Giants”
held at MIT, a program in which he still teaches today.

Founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 200
partners on six continents, Verne has spent the past four decades helping companies scale up.

He’s the author of multiple bestsellers including Mastering the Rockefeller Habits; The Greatest Business
Decisions of All Times," for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword; Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)
which has been translated into 23 languages and has won eight major international book awards
including the prestigious International Book Award for Best General Business book; and his latest book
Scaling Up Compensation.

Verne serves on several boards including vice chair of The Riordan Clinic; co-founder and chair of
Geoversity; and board member of the social venture Million Dollar Women. A private investor in many
scaleups, Verne enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International
Brotherhood of Magicians.