Verne is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) and chaired for 15 years EO's premier CEO program, the "Birthing of Giants," held at MIT. Founder and CEO of Gazelles, a global executive education and coaching company with hundreds of partners on six continents, Verne has spent more than 30 years educating entrepreneurial teams. The "Growth Guy" syndicated columnist, he's also a regular columnist for "Fortune" magazine. He's the author of "Mastering the Rockefeller Habits" and, along with the editors of Fortune, authored "The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time", for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword. Verne chairs annual Growth Summits in North America, Australia, Europe, and Asia and continues to teach in the MIT-based executive program he founded. 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.