Company overview

Gazelles Inc. provides executive education, coaching and technology services to help mid-market companies around the world build and execute a strategic plan. Best known for our One-Page Strategic Plan and other one-page tools, Gazelles focuses on helping executive teams make the right decisions when it comes to four key areas: people, strategy, execution and cash.

Gazelles provides executive education through live events and online seminars , focused on issues related to strategic planning. They feature members of our faculty of leading business experts, including Seth Godin, Pat Lencioni, Geoff Smart, Jack Stack and Neil Rackham. Gazelles also sponsors best practices trips to Dell, GE, Microsoft, and Southwest Airlines. Among the company's recent clients are Appletree Answering Service, Event Network, FatWallet, Innotec Group, PrintingForLess.com and The SCOOTER Store.

Gazelles, based in Ashburn, Va., was founded in 1996 by Verne Harnish. Harnish, who has advised hundreds of midsized firms on growth-related issues, is author of the book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Fast-Growth Firm. It has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. He writes The Strategist column for Fortune magazines Venture section, as well as the globally syndicated Growth Guy column.

Harnish founded both the Young Entrepreneurs Organization and the Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs. He also chaired the Birthing of Giants executive education program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 15 years.