Some of you may know Cathy through her work as a facilitator with Gazelles. Verne Harnish is the founder and CEO of Gazelles, a global executive education and coaching company. He is also the founder of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and previous 15-year chair of EO’s premiere CEO program, the “Birthing of Giants” and WEO’s “Advanced Business” executive program, both held at MIT.
Verne has spent the past three decades educating entrepreneurial teams. The “Growth Guy” syndicated columnist, he’s also the Venture Columnist for Fortune magazine. He’s the author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, which is endorsed by over 100 CEOs of mid-size companies and is published in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Serbian, Polish, Dutch, German, and Spanish.
Verne also chairs annual Growth Summits in North America, Australia, Europe, and Latin America and continues to teach in the MIT executive program he founded and the “Taipan: Making of Asian Giants” program he co-chaired for 10 years. He also led the first delegation of young entrepreneurs to Mainland China.