Verne Harnish - ScaleUp Expert, World-Renowned Speaker, Bestselling Author
Keynote Business Boost, 2020 – Amsterdam
Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 18,000 members worldwide, and founded and chaired for fifteen years EO’s premiere CEO program 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 290 partners on six continents, Verne has spent the past four decades helping companies scaleup.
The Global Scaleup Fellow at The Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, he’s the author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits; authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times,” for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword; wrote Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) which has been translated into 26 languages and has won eight major international book awards including the International Book Award for Best General Business book; and is the co-author of Scaling Up Compensation. His latest book is Start to Scale.
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.
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Verne charges the same keynote fee (USD 50,000 for 60 minutes to 3 hours) no matter where the event is located – it shouldn’t be your burden where the speaker chooses to live. And airfare is included in the fee, leaving it up to Verne how he chooses to travel – coach, business, or first – and where he plans to be before and after the keynote. No penalty for overseas travel. A travel allowance of USD 1,000 will also be charged in order to cover hotel accommodations, ground transportation, etc. It’s always appreciated if the hotel room is on the concierge floor so Verne can grab a quick bite or drink without visiting the restaurant. And if you’re thinking about a speaker gift, he prefers to travel lite. If you must, an Amazon gift certificate is always appreciated – Verne loves to read.
The keynote fee includes up to 400 copies of Verne’s book Scaling Up – just pay the shipping costs. And we can work out a price for additional books, depending on how many more you want as a gift to the attendees. We find the participants really appreciate getting a copy of the book which reinforces Verne’s message and continues to remind them of your event as they read it. And Verne is happy to stay and autograph copies if there is time.
We’ll also provide you an electronic copy of the Growth Tools, to be used as the handout and to be printed locally. It’s another great takeaway providing value after the session and support Verne’s message.
A PDF of Verne’s slides will be available at a link which he’ll share during his presentation and you can email to the attendees afterwards. Videotaping of Verne’s presentation is fine. When used properly this can enhance an event and afford those who were unable to attend the opportunity to share in the learning.
Prior to the keynote, we’ll schedule an optional call to discuss details – though most of the time exchanging a few emails suffices and saves you time to schedule. Instead, if you prefer to use that time to host a webinar with Verne prior to the event as a way to help promote attendance, that’s included in the fee as well. We want to help you make the event a huge success.
As the virtual realm becomes our new-normal, Verne now has a professional setup prepared for presenting keynotes virtually from his Boulder, CO location. Verne charges $20,000 for speaking virtually, which includes 200 copies of his book, Scaling Up. With this speaking fee, Verne utilizes a professional studio with fiber internet connection, a state-of-the-art RED 6k camera, professional lighting, boom microphones, and a white or black background.
Video Samples
Below are samples of Verne’s live and virtual presentations.
Business Boost, Amsterdam — Jan 2020
Audience: 7,200+
CEO Rising Virtual Summit — June 2020
W/ Jim Collins, Pat Lencioni and Ram Charan
Audience: 2,500
bestselling author
Start to Scale
Secrets to Starting and Scaling Any Size Organization
Start to Scale is where you and your team can begin, with the tools and techniques that have helped over 102,000 firms like yours scale. These techniques have been used by highly successful industry legends, including Dave Rogenmoser and his partners who started their firm over a weekend with the Start to Scale tools and scaled to over $1 billion in valuation (a tale so noteworthy, it’s the opening story in this book).
The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time
How Apple, Ford, IBM, Zappos, and others made radical choices that changed the course of business.
Verne Harnish, the CEO of Gazelles, and Fortune‘s editors provide the background stories behind the greatest business decisions of all time.
The book contains an insightful foreword by management guru Jim Collins, the author of Built To Last and Good To Great, which explains the importance of decision making in creating a successful company.
Scaling Up
How a Few Companies Make it…and Why the Rest Don’t (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)
“Verne Harnish is more committed to helping companies grow than any other person on the planet. Really. He’s also radically practical in his approach and that is reflected throughout this terrific book.”
– Patrick Lencioni, Best-selling author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Advantage
Scaling Up Compensation
5 Design Principles for Turning Your Largest Expense into a Strategic Advantage
Compensation is one of your largest expenses. You must turn it into a strategic advantage in attracting, retaining, and motivating talent (or not accidentally demotivating them). This book details 5 principles for designing effective compensation systems along with plenty of practical examples from leading small, medium, and large firms. Buy the Kindle edition
