5 Critical Strategies For Doubling Revenue

Nov. 6 – 4:15pm
Event Center

The “Growth Guy” columnist for several publications and a contributing editor for Fortune Small Business magazine, Verne is the author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Fast-Growth Firm, which has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Named one of the “Top 10 Minds in Small Business” by Fortune Small Business Magazine, he appeared on the cover of the Dec/Jan 2002 issue of the magazine.

During his keynote address on Friday morning, Verne will share insights he has gained by visiting with some of the world’s top sales and marketing thought leaders, as well as CEOs whose firms are seeing dramatic increases in revenue during this downturn. He discusses several actionable ideas have emerged which you can act on immediately.

He will conduct a Town Hall meeting Friday afternoon during which he will discuss Gazelles Growth Tools. These materials are in your Partner Summit Guide.

Introduction by:
Partner Eddy Wong
President G&G Group
New York City

Verne Harnish
Founder and CEO, Gazelles, Inc.
Married to Julie and father of four children Cameron, Cole, Jade, and Quinn, Verne is the founder of two world-renowned entrepreneurship organizations, the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization (YEO) and the Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs (ACE), Verne is presently founder and CEO of Gazelles, Inc., which serves as an outsourced corporate university for mid-size firms. The “Growth Guy” columnist for several publications and a contributing editor for Fortune Small Business magazine, Verne is the author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Fast-Growth Firm, which has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Named one of the “Top 10 Minds in Small Business” by Fortune Small Business Magazine, he appeared on the cover of the Dec/Jan 2002 issue of the magazine.

Verne chaired the renowned “Birthing of Giants” entrepreneurship leadership program at MIT for 15 years and the MIT/WEO “Advanced Business Program”. He also chaired for several years the leadership program for the Canada’s prestigious “Top 40 Under 40” program and is going into his seventh year leading an executive program in Malaysia entitled “Taipan, the Making of Asian Giants.” He’s helping launch similar programs in Australia, Europe, and India in 2008.

Verne has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA. Hobbies include piano, tennis, and magic as a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

Website: www.gazelles.com
Blog: http://verneharnish.typepad.com