12 Aug August 13, 2025 – Deep Listening Emily Kasriel and EO Founder Verne Harnish
Emily Kasriel – Deep Listening Expert, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London and Author of
There’s such an epidemic of loneliness in our society… we all need
to be heard. It’s a fundamental human need and even a human right.
Emily Kasriel
Emily is an experienced media executive who has led a range of high-profile projects on staff for the BBC as well as reporting and producing for the BBC from five continents. She has developed the Deep Listening approach as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College Policy Institute in London and previously as a Practitioner in Residence at the London School of Economics. She has also drawn on her decade long experience as an Executive Coach, accredited with the Association for Coaching, and more recently as a workplace mediator. She is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University. Emily has led the BBC British Council Crossing Divides around the Globe project, signing up more than 1000 young people from 119 countries for her training in Deep Listening – following a pilot of 150 in Lebanon, 300 IBM executives from across Europe; executive coaches from multiple organisations, and cohorts of leaders from the British army to McDonald’s with the UK’s Forward Institute for responsible leadership. In her work at BBC News she led projects spanning BBC Crossing Divides to SoICanBreathe to setting up and running the BBC News Komla Dumor Award for African journalists – as well as leading arts and culture, religion and then the ideas department at the BBC World Service. She was previously a Senior Adviser to the Skoll Foundation and a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School at the University of Oxford. She has written for a number of major publications and chairs a wide range of panels, events and interviews around the world, and is on the board of the Wingate Foundation. She has been awarded an MA from the University of Oxford and another from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University on a Rotary Fellowship.
Verne Harnish – Owner, Gazelles, Inc. and Founder of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO)
If you don’t change your daily routine, goals are just hollow. Now,
routines without goals are aimless, and so you need both.
Verne Harnish
Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 18,000 members worldwide, and founded and chaired for fi fteen 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. The Global Scaleup Fellow at The Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, 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.