Vernie Harnish Headshot for Board of Advisors

Verne Harnish

Founder of Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO)

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 the bestseller Mastering the Rockefeller Habits. He also wrote The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times, for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword, and Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0), which has been translated into 22 languages and has won eight major international book awards including the prestigious International Book Award for Best General Business book. His latest book, Scaling Up Compensation, rocketed to the #1 HR book on Amazon.

Verne also chairs the annual ScaleUp Summits and 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.