Nurturing Indian Giants with Verne Harnish in August 2026

DREAM BIG . IMPACT BIG . CREATE BIG

Our Community's big hairy audacious goal by 2047 is to be the world’s best Transformation Ecosystem for Businesses; nurturing sixty Indian Businesses to be Fortune Global 100, three hundred Indian Businesses to be Fortune Global 500 and twelve hundred Indian Businesses to be Forbes Global 2000 as Businesses we lead, nurture and coach become Spaces of Grace for people to joyously lead themselves, their health, their kids, their relationships, their team members and their business from good to great, realize their dreams and have it all with ease and grace; supporting India to be the world's most developed, beautiful, greenest nation with her citizens happiest, healthiest and the most prosperous; creating a Brave New World of love, peace and joy.

I am happy and grateful that Verne Harnish is a Business Excellence mentor for our community to support us ​in our journey to fulfil on our big hairy audacious goal, and for his commitment to come to India year on year to lead Scaling-up Masterclasses for our community to strengthen our community's knowledge and understanding of the Scaling-up Methodology for successful implementation ensuring:

1. More Positive Impact in the world with
2x Cash Flow
3x Industry Average Profitability
10x Valuation

2. More Time for us to Have It All
Reduce by 80% time it takes to manage the business

3. More Ease, Grace and Fun
Support to speed the process and take the load off the leadership team

​The Scaling Up methodology, created by Verne, has scaled 102,000+ organisations, contributing to 12 million plus people across 6 Continents.

Verne is also the founder of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 18,000 members worldwide. He founded and chaired for fifteen years EO’s premiere CEO program held at MIT, a program in which he still teaches today.

Click this link for more about Verne and Scaling-up.

I am delighted to welcome you to our RYD Community EXPAND Event in August 2026 – Nurturing Indian Giants, as part of which Verne will be leading a 2-day in-person Scaling-up Masterclass in Mumbai. The event is designed for the Businesses on the RYD Good to Great journey for leadership, culture and business transformation supporting them to create greater positive impact in the world. More number of leaders in a business learn and understand about Scaling-up, faster the business will be able to implement the scaling-up methodology with ease and grace to make a much bigger difference to its people - employees, customers and all other stake-holders.

The pre-work to warm-up for this immersive learning experience is to read one of two  below books, word by word and understand the concepts deeply before 23-Aug-26, knowing that you are reading to implement the methodology in your business / business function:

Start to Scale: Secrets to Starting and Scaling any Size Organization by Verne Harnish.
or
Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It... and Why the Rest Don't by Verne Harnish

Read the Kindle version of the book, if the physical delivery is taking time. Reading the book along with your leadership team before the event will ensure your and your team's participation progresses you to implementation of the Scaling-up methodology immediately after the event. 

The event is designed with seven 90-minute segments with Verne teaching the concept for 30 minutes, followed by the business teams having a socratic discussion on the concept and the way to implement it in their business to deepen their learnings, followed by QnA with Verne for the next 30 minutes of the segment.

If you have read the book, read it again with the humility of a student because what differentiates amateurs and professionals is that professionals play for mastery by learning the fundamentals again and again.

Join us for this expansive, immersive learning experience along with our 3 best friends on the good to great journey - Joy of Learning, Humility of a Student, Speed of Learning to Action

Preeti Singh is our Program Manager for the Event. In case of any support needed regarding the event or booking a room at the hotel at a preferential rate, please reach out to her at 9899793015 and she will be happy to go out of her way to make your participation easeful and hugely value-creating. Anju Chowla from the RYD Leadership Team is responsible for the event and can be reached at [email protected]

The investment for the 2-day Masterclass with Verne on 25-Aug-26 Tuesday and 26-Aug-26 Wednesday which includes one 90-minute deep-dive on Making AI Happen in India by Lalit Yagnik is as follows:
1. RYD Coachees and their leaders (number based on the program): Investment by RYD
2. Additional leaders from the businesses on the RYD Good to Great journey: ₹ 35,000/- + GST per participant
3. RYD Graduates: ₹ 67,500/- + GST per participant
4. Non-RYD Participants: ₹ 1,00,000/- + GST per participant

Detailed schedule for this immersive learning experience is given below, along with the form to be filled by 10-Aug-26 to register yourself for the event. Participation confirmation is based on availability.

Let's keep learning, implementing and contributing to joyously lead ourselves, our health, our kids, our relationships, our team members and our businesses from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure together along the way.

Love and Light,
j.

RYD Community EXPAND Event August 2026
Theme: Nurturing Indian Giants with Verne Harnish

 Venue: Taj Lands End, Mumbai

24-Aug-26 Monday 4:57 pm to 6:57 pm IST
RYD Community EXPAND Event: Take-off
Participants: RYD Members

24-Aug-26 Monday 6:57 pm to 8:27 pm IST
Connect with Verne over Dinner
Participants: RYD Members

25-Aug-26 Tuesday 7:43 am to 5:03 pm IST 
Scaling Up Masterclass with Verne - Day 1
Participants: Business Owners, CEOs and their leadership teams 

25-Aug-26 Tuesday 5:27 pm to 7:27 pm IST
Recommendation: Business Owners and CEOs can use this time for a Team Get-Together to strengthen team connection and cohesion. To make this time with their team most effective, a format would be provided. The venue is to be booked by the business team.​ 

26-Aug-26 Wednesday 7:43 am to 5:03 pm IST 
Scaling Up Masterclass with Verne - Day 2
Includes a 90-minute deep-dive on Making AI Happen in India with Lalit Yagnik, RYD Chief AI Officer and Resident AI Mentor for member businesses
Participants: Business Owners, CEOs and their leadership teams 

26-Aug-26 Wednesday 5:17 pm to 5:47 pm IST
Connect over a Bite
Participants: All RYD Members

26-Aug-26 Wednesday 5:47 pm to 6:47 pm IST
Reflection and Integration
Participants: All RYD Members

26-Aug-26 Wednesday 6:57 pm to 7:57 pm IST
In conversation with Verne
Participants: RYD Coachees who have a one-on-one with Verne on the next day, and their #2

27-Aug-26 Thursday 7:43 am to 5:33 pm IST 
45-min one-on-one with Verne 
Participants: RYD Coachees who have opted for a one-on-one with Verne, along with their #2
1-hour one-on-one with Lalit
​Participants: RYD Coachees who have opted for a one-on-one with Lalit, along with their #2

Please fill the below registration form to register yourself for the event.

Looking forward to seeing you in person.