Growth Tools

For CEOs Leading Companies Past the $10M Growth Stage

The Tools 102,000+ Companies Use to Scale to 8 Figures and Beyond

Download the free Scaling Up Growth Tools Starter Pack and begin implementing the tools leadership teams use to align strategy, execution, people, and cash.

102,000 Companies

scaled using the Scaling Up Framework

80+ Countries

connected through the global coach community

290+ Certified Coaches

guiding leadership teams worldwide

40+ Years

of business growth and leadership success

Is the Scaling Up Growth Tools Starter Pack Right for You?

See if this sounds like you:

You’ve reached a point in your business where growth feels overwhelming.
You’re unsure about where to focus your efforts to maximize impact.
You’ve tried other frameworks and tools, but nothing sticks long enough to drive real change.
You’re constantly playing catch-up, feeling like you're always managing tasks, but not really moving forward.
You're looking for a proven, structured approach to scale up effectively without losing control or sacrificing growth.

If any of this sounds like you, the Growth Tools Starter Pack can provide the structure, clarity, and direction you need to move forward with confidence.

What you’ll discover after downloading the Growth Tools Starter Pack:

Gain a clear strategic focus:

Learn how to identify and prioritize the core areas of your business that will drive exponential growth.

Enhance your team’s alignment

Discover tools that help align your people with your business’s mission, making teamwork and accountability easier.

Master financial levers for growth

Unlock cash flow tools that ensure you’re maximizing profitability while maintaining a healthy bottom line.

Implement effective execution frameworks

Apply step-by-step execution strategies that keep your business on track and ensure you’re moving towards your goals.

Scale with confidence

Equip yourself with tools that help you plan for both short-term and long-term success, ensuring sustainability.

About Scaling Up

The world’s leading framework for business growth and leadership.

For over 40 years, Scaling Up has helped more than 102,000 companies across 80+ countries achieve faster, smarter, and more sustainable growth.

Built on the Four Decisions™ framework (People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash), Scaling Up gives leaders the tools and structure to grow without losing culture, focus, or balance.

Founded by Verne Harnish, bestselling author of Scaling Up: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits and Start to Scale, the methodology has become the global standard for scaling businesses, adopted by CEOs, coaches, and leadership teams worldwide.

Today, Scaling Up provides actionable insights and tools for business leaders to scale their operations, optimize performance, and build lasting success. This methodology has been embraced by companies worldwide, from startups to industry giants.

Where Scaling Up Coaches Create the Most Impact

When you work with a Scaling Up Certified Coach, you gain proven frameworks and tools to guide your leadership team through every stage of growth, from early-stage complexity to enterprise-level scale.

And unlike many coaching systems, Scaling Up is flexible. Your coach adapts the approach based on your company’s most urgent priority: People, Strategy, Execution, or Cash.

Here are some of the most impactful ways companies apply Scaling Up in the real world:

Advanced Certification in AI

Stand out as one of the few coaches globally trained to apply AI strategically inside scaling companies. This advanced program goes beyond tools and trends, giving you the frameworks to help CEOs design AI-powered workflows, boost efficiency, and future-proof their business. Learn how to integrate AI into strategy, execution, data rhythms, and leadership systems, so you can deliver measurable impact that your clients will feel fast.

Leadership Coaching

Help CEOs and executives master the Four Decisions™ to lead with alignment and confidence. Guide them in setting priorities, communicating vision, and creating a culture that scales.

Team Alignment and Performance

Use Scaling Up’s proprietary tools, like the One-Page Strategic Plan (OPSP), and the Function Accountability Chart (FACe), to turn teams into cohesive, high-performing units with shared goals and measurable outcomes.

Strategic Planning Facilitation

Facilitate leadership workshops where teams define their core purpose, values, and key differentiators. Equip them to execute quarterly and annual planning sessions that drive consistent results.

Business Growth and Scaling Systems

Support organizations in designing structures that sustain profitability and growth, improving cash flow, execution discipline, and long-term scalability.

Culture and People Development

Help businesses attract, engage, and retain the right talent by applying the People Decision principles to build accountability, trust, and motivation across teams.

Exit and Succession Planning

For companies preparing for transition, guide leaders through Scaling Up’s advanced frameworks—including the new Exits Certification—to ensure continuity, culture, and value creation long after the handover.

Meet The Coaches - Testimonial Slider

Karie Kaufmann

Scaling Up Certified Coach™

"I worked with Karie for 9 years. My business was already on track to grow, but we ended up growing 25-30% year after year, and bought 3 other businesses along the way."

Dawn Carvajal | The Wild Thyme Company

Mark Miller

Scaling Up Certified Coach™

"Mark has brought tremendous value to our company. He understands the best practices in people, strategy and process and challenges us to improve our company to a higher performance in each. The results are evident in our culture and our bottom line."

Scott Carpenter, CEO | Savor Street Foods

Brian Keegan

Scaling Up Certified Coach™

"As someone who has traveled the entrepreneurial journey, Brian Keegan's business, strategic and logistical advice was absolutely invaluable to my work and I would highly recommend him. From years of experience he understands the nuances of business strategy and he has the ability to mentor and guide from the simplest to the most complex of business issues to achieve success."

Joanne O'Sullivan, Partner, Kennedys Law LLP

Pavel Krepelka

Scaling Up Certified Coach™

"Cooperation with Pavel and implementation of Scale Up knowledge — I am not afraid to say that thanks to the cooperation with Pavel we are already better able to manage the complications of systems and structures that bring growth."

Martin Smolař, CEO | AZ Facility

Ajay Hiraskar

Scaling Up Certified Coach™

"Ajay is a great coach who keeps you on your toes. He has a very holistic approach to your problems and he makes you think out of the box. His years of industry experience adds value to you by giving a practical solution. His global experience and understanding of international markets, as well as clients, is a key differentiator. I sincerely recommend Ajay Hiraskar to anyone who is looking to scale their business and achieve new heights."

Dheerajj Agarwal, Founder & CEO | VSynergize Outsourcing Private Ltd

Liat Lazar

Scaling Up Certified Coach™

"Working with Liat Lazar and Scaling Up methodology has a great contribution to the buildup of a strong and aligned management team, who focuses on the right growth engines and assimilates advanced processes and methodologies that enable growth. Liat is an experienced professional and together with the methods and tools she works with, it's an exceptional combination in the field of business consulting."

Ravit Kalod, Country Manager | Mars Israel

James Hughes

Scaling Up Certified Coach™

"The biggest benefit of engaging with our coach is partnering with someone who has the requisite business knowledge and expertise to support the big ideas, can act as a sounding board for the trials and tribulations of operating a small to medium business, and has a vested interest in us reaching our goals."

Paul Maitre, Managing Director | ADA Consulting Engineers

Stacy Eads

Scaling Up Certified Coach™

"I couldn't push 'buy now' quick enough because I knew that if Stacy Eads was facilitating our meetings, she would inspire intelligent discussions and motivate super-efficient action items for my team. Stacy makes planning meetings a breeze. I now spend 1/4 of the time I used to on managing our different departments because of the quarterly meetings she facilitates. These meetings align our entire team while giving me quick and easy check-in points."

Susan Lobsinger, Senior Managing Partner at Energetix Holdings | President of Lobdock Impairment Detection - President of TruSST Team

Jennifer Faught

Scaling Up Certified Coach™

"The cool, calm, and thought-provoking insight of Jennifer motivates and inspires us every day. She patiently listens to our thoughts and ideas allowing us to embrace our creativity but always graciously forces us back to the tough questions and encourages us to find answers that really tie a bow around the outcome we are wanting. Jennifer's quiet energy and guidance gives a real sense that our goals are achievable, and she makes us WANT to achieve them."

Sandy Cunningham, Co-Founder | Outside Go

Ready to Scale Your Business?

Don’t wait for growth to happen on its own. Start implementing the Growth Tools Starter Pack today and take immediate action towards transforming your business with the proven Scaling Up framework.

Who Is Verne Harnish?

Verne Harnish, founder of Scaling Up

Verne Harnish is a globally recognized thought leader in business growth, leadership, and entrepreneurship. He is the founder of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), which now supports more than 18,000 members worldwide, and the author of the best-selling books Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It… and Why the Rest Don’t and Mastering the Rockefeller Habits.

For more than four decades, Verne has helped companies of all sizes scale with clarity, discipline, and purpose. Through his company Scaling Up, he developed the Four Decisions™ Framework (People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash), which has guided over 102,000 businesses across 80+ countries to achieve sustainable, measurable growth.

In 2025, Verne received the CEO Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award for his global impact on leadership and entrepreneurship. Today, through the Scaling Up Certified Coach Program, Verne continues his mission to empower experienced leaders and executives to guide others toward success, freedom, and meaningful impact.