🚨 Calling CEOs, executives & business owners, join Verne Harnish & Daniel Marcos live for 5 days

Stop Running Your Business. Start Scaling It.

For 5 days, learn and apply the exact operating system 120,000+ companies use to align their team, fix their cash flow, and grow without the founder being the bottleneck.

Learn and apply the exact operating system 86,000+ companies use to align their team, fix their cash flow, and grow without the founder being the bottleneck.

LIVE on May 11-15th, 2026
9 am PT | 11 am CT | 12 pm ET
LIVE on May 11-15th, 2026
9 am PT | 11 am CT | 12 pm ET
Join Thousands of Business Owners Who’ve Scaled with a System
Join Thousands of Business Owners Who’ve Scaled with a System
86,000+

Companies using the Scaling Up methodology

Companies using the Scaling Up methodology

30+

Years of proven results

Years of proven results

20+

Countries reached by Growth Institute

Countries reached by Growth Institute

Is the Scale Your Business Challenge for you?

Is the Scale Your Business Challenge for you?

Tell me if this sounds like you:

Tell me if this sounds like you:

  • Your business is selling, but you feel out of control. Growth created more problems and drama than it solved, and you are not sure how to get ahead of it.

  • You are trapped in operations. Your company depends too much on you, and you cannot step away without things falling apart.

  • You started the year with urgency, chaos, and no real clarity. The plan you made in January already feels irrelevant or forgotten

  • You know you are postponing important decisions. About your team, your strategy, your structure. But you do not have the framework to make them with confidence.

  • You are working more than ever, but the progress does not match the effort. The hours go up. The results stay flat.

If any of this sounds familiar, it is not a discipline problem. It is a system problem. And that is exactly what the 5-Day Scale Your Business challenge is built to fix.


By the end of these 5 days, you will know what type of entrepreneur you are, what stage your company is in, and what decisions you need to make right now to take back control and scale with clarity instead of chaos.

If any of this sounds familiar, it is not a discipline problem. It is a system problem. And that is exactly what the 5-Day Scale Your Business challenge is built to fix.


By the end of these 5 days, you will know what type of entrepreneur you are, what stage your company is in, and what decisions you need to make right now to take back control and scale with clarity instead of chaos.

By the end of the 5-Day Scale Your Business Challenge, you will:

Stop guessing why growth feels harder than it should — and know exactly what needs to change first.

Stop tolerating the people decisions you've been avoiding, and build a team that executes without you in the room.

Stop having a strategy that lives only in your head — and get your entire team aligned around one clear direction on a single page.

Stop being the answer to every question — and build an accountability structure where every function in your business has one owner and one result.

Stop optimising the wrong numbers — and find the single financial lever that moves your business more than everything else combined.

Leave day 5 with more clarity on your business than most founders find in a year of working alone — and a clear plan that runs from Monday.

You're Not Learning From Coaches. You're Learning From the People Who Wrote the Playbook.

Daniel Marcos

CEO & Co-Founder at Growth Institute. Author of ImpactX and De Startup a Scale-Up

Daniel Marcos started his first company in 1998. Since then, he has built and scaled multiple businesses, made the Inc. 500 list, and studied under Verne Harnish at MIT's Birthing of Giants program.

After years of learning what works and what breaks when companies try to grow, he co-founded Growth Institute to help business owners scale without sacrificing their freedom. Today, Growth Institute has trained over 356,000 leaders worldwide and serves a community of 86,000+ entrepreneurs across 20 countries.

Daniel is the author of "ImpactX" and "De Startup a Scale-Up," a columnist for Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Expansion, and has spoken in over 20 countries sharing the stage with global business leaders.

In this 5-day challenge, Daniel will share the 4 Decisions of Scaling Up, the stages of company growth, and the tools that help you stop being the bottleneck and start being the CEO your company needs.

Verne Harnish

Author of Scaling Up (1M+ copies sold) · Founder of EO · Teaches at MIT · Forbes contributor

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

Founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 290 partners on six continents, Verne has spent the past four decades helping companies scaleup.

He’s the author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits; authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times,” for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword; wrote Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) which has been translated into 26 languages and has won eight major international book awards including the International Book Award for Best General Business book; and is the co-author of Scaling Up Compensation. His latest book is Start to Scale.

Verne serves on several boards including vice chair of The Riordan Clinic; co-founder and chair of Geoversity; and board member of the social venture Million Dollar Women. A private investor in many scaleups, Verne enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

Companies that trust us
Companies that trust us

Sign up for the 5-Day Scale Your Business Challenge now:

Here’s what’s included when you join:

5 Days of Live Training with Verne Harnish & Daniel Marcos (Value: $997)

Five interactive sessions where you will diagnose your company, build your strategic plan, and walk away with a clear roadmap to scale. This is not a lecture. You will work on your business in real time.

BONUS #1: WhatsApp Community (Value: $47)

Get updates via WhatsApp in the days leading up to the challenge — including practical tips to help you arrive on Monday ready to work on your business, not just watch.

BONUS #2: The One-Page Personal Plan (Value: $97)

The same tool Daniel uses to align his personal goals with his business goals. Before you can scale your company, you need clarity on what you actually want from your life. This downloadable template helps you define it on a single page.

Total Value: $1,141

Your investment: FREE

LIVE on on Zoom |May 11th–15th 2026
LIVE on on Zoom | May 11th–15th 2026
LIVE on on Zoom |May 11th–15th 2026

What our Community

What our Community

of Leaders Says About Us

of Leaders Says About Us

Your 5-Day Scale Your Business Agenda

Your 5-Day Scale Your Business Agenda

DAY 1 · Scaling Stages
Mon, May 11 · 11 AM CT with Daniel Marcos

Discover what stage your business is actually in — and what it means for every decision you need to make next.

DAY 1 · Scaling Stages
Mon, May 11 · 11 AM CT with Daniel Marcos

Discover what stage your business is actually in — and what it means for every decision you need to make next.

DAY 2 · Thinking Like a Scaling CEO
Tue, May 12 · 11 AM CT with Verne Harnish

The frameworks, mindset, and decisions that separate founders who scale from those who stay stuck.

DAY 2 · Thinking Like a Scaling CEO
Tue, May 12 · 11 AM CT with Verne Harnish

The frameworks, mindset, and decisions that separate founders who scale from those who stay stuck.

DAY 3 · People & Strategy
Wed, May 13 · 11 AM CT with Verne Harnish

Build the team and the plan your business needs to grow without you in the middle of everything.

DAY 3 · People & Strategy
Wed, May 13 · 11 AM CT with Verne Harnish

Build the team and the plan your business needs to grow without you in the middle of everything.

DAY 4 · Execution & Cash
Thursday, May 14 · 11 AM CT with Verne Harnish

Turn your strategy into a system your team runs — and get your cash working for you instead of against you.

DAY 4 · Execution & Cash
Thursday, May 14 · 11 AM CT with Verne Harnish

Turn your strategy into a system your team runs — and get your cash working for you instead of against you.

DAY 5 · Leadership & Implementation
Friday, May 15 · 9 AM CT with Daniel Marcos

How to take everything you've built this week and embed it into the way your company operates from Monday forward.

DAY 5 · Leadership & Implementation
Friday, May 15 · 9 AM CT with Daniel Marcos

How to take everything you've built this week and embed it into the way your company operates from Monday forward.

BONUS: DAY 6 · Q&A with Daniel Marcos
Saturday, May 16 · 2h30 PM CT

Your questions, answered live. We close the week by going deep on what matters most for your business and making sure you leave with a clear plan, not just ideas.

BONUS: DAY 6 · Q&A with Daniel Marcos
Saturday, May 16 · 2h30 PM CT

Your questions, answered live. We close the week by going deep on what matters most for your business and making sure you leave with a clear plan, not just ideas.

See What’s Possible in Just 5 Days

See What’s Possible in Just 5 Days

"It's been really helpful in giving me the tools to connect with my team on a daily basis and look at our company with a different perspective. "

Natasha Mohan

“I am happy that I now have a structured tool to take on the next 10-15 years. This course can give you "the edge" if you are starting heading a start-up, or are already running a great company.”

“I am happy that I now have a structured tool to take on the next 10-15 years. This course can give you "the edge" if you are starting heading a start-up, or are already running a great company.”

Kishore Keswani

“After attending, we have seen the need to take the next step in company growth and management. Some of the tools are excellent for communicating to the rest of our management team. Using the cash levers is a good visual illustration of what we need to do and how each part of the cash process works, and that is not an easy concept for non-financial people.”

Wendy J Huffman

“While implementing the tools and working on the strategy side it really gave me the sense of being back in control and that we not only will survive but also come back stronger.”

“While implementing the tools and working on the strategy side it really gave me the sense of being back in control and that we not only will survive but also come back stronger.”

Sandra Ballij

In 5 Days with Verne Harnish and Daniel Marcos, Build the Plan That Turns Chaos into Scalable Growth

In 5 Days with Verne Harnish and Daniel Marcos, Build the Plan That Turns Chaos into Scalable Growth

May 11-15th, 2026

Need help? Email us at challenge@growthinstitute.com

Need help? Email us at challenge@growthinstitute.com