KEYNOTE SPEAKER FEES:

• $25,000 plus travel expenses.  Fee includes up to 400 copies of “Mastering the Rockefeller Habits” to be used for marketing purposes or as a gift for attendees.

BIOGRAPHY: Verne is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and chaired for fifteen years EO’s premiere CEO program, the “Birthing of Giants” and WEO’s “Advanced Business” executive program both held at MIT.  Founder and CEO of Gazelles, a global executive education and coaching company, Verne has spent the past 30 years 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, along with the editors of Fortune, has also authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times," for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword. Verne also chairs annual Growth Summits in North America, Australia, Europe, and Latin America and continues to teach in the MIT-based 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.  Residing in Barcelona, Spain, he’s married with four children and enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

"Verne your talk knocked me out!!! Again! You are without a doubt in the top 3 business speakers I have ever heard. Thanks you for making yourself available & your great wisdom.  Feedback was incredible."

John McGrath, CEO
McGrath Estate Agents
RELC Annual Conference

"Verne's insights and remarks on Dominating Your Industry: The Four Critical Decisions were enthusiastically received by the audience and helped to make this a memorable event for all involved. His session earned a unanimous 6 out of 6 (the equivalent of a 10), with such comments as Outstanding session!, High energy-high value speaker!, and Should have been longer!"

Joan Walsh Cassedy, CAE
Executive Director
American Council of Independent Laboratories

"Verne's presentation received high marks from our attendees… I think it was one of the best!"

Milan Yager
Executive Vice President
National Association of Professional Employer Organizations

Verne really did make a difference! As a speaker, your unique presentation provided immense "take-home" value that the members will be able to apply immediately and directly to both their professional and personal lives!"

Kevin R. Wice
EO Vancouver Chapter President; EO Vancouver 2003 University Chair; President, Xynyth Manufacturing Corp.

We continue to hear how much the members (U.S. Swim School Association) loved your presentation and they were able to take what was learned and put it to use immediately.  I personally thought you were one of our best presenters in the past several years.

Sincerely, 
Sue Mackie, CEO
Aquatics Unlimited Swim School