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amp up your life with world-class learning

Group sales: $2295 per person
minimum 10 people

MAIN STAGE KEYNOTES & PERFORMANCES

Rock Icons Take the Stage

To kick off NERVE 2025, we will step into the heart of rock history with two unforgettable performers and storytellers:

Steve Augeri – The Voice of Journey

Former lead vocalist of Journey, Steve Augeri stepped into the shoes of the legendary Steve Perry and carried the band’s timeless sound to arenas around the world. At NERVE, he’ll share the remarkable story of rising to that challenge—and then bring the anthems that defined a generation to life once again.

Artimus Pyle – The Last Surviving Original Member of Lynyrd Skynyrd

Artimus Pyle, the drummer who survived the tragic 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash, takes the stage to share his powerful and emotional story of that fateful day. With resilience and passion, he continues to carry the torch for Skynyrd’s enduring legacy, performing the classic Southern rock songs we all know and love.

Two legends. Two stories. TImeless music.

This is more than a concert—it’s a rare, intimate journey through the history of rock told by the men who lived it. Exclusive to EO NERVE 2025 in Atlantic City.

Danny Meyer

Danny Meyer is a legend in the hospitality industry—not just for serving world-class food, but for redefining what it means to lead with excellence. As the founder and CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, Danny has built an empire of renowned restaurants, including Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and The Modern. He’s also the visionary behind Shake Shack, transforming a humble hot dog cart into a global sensation.

But Danny’s impact goes far beyond the kitchen.

His pioneering concept of Enlightened Hospitality—putting employees first to create extraordinary guest experiences—has reshaped leadership across industries. Entrepreneurs looking to scale, innovate, and cultivate unstoppable company culture will find unparalleled wisdom in his journey.

At NERVE 2025, Danny will share how he scaled Shake Shack into an international powerhouse while maintaining the soul of a small business. He’ll reveal the strategies behind building loyalty, driving customer engagement, and creating teams that thrive.

If you’re ready to amplify your leadership, customer experience, and business success, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from one of the best.

Dr. David Sinclair

David A. Sinclair, A.O., Ph.D. helps leaders amplify their vitality, resilience, and performance, empowering them to not only enhance their business impact but also enjoy longer, healthier lives. His groundbreaking insights reveal practical methods for slowing aging, boosting energy, and improving cognitive clarity—enabling EO members to thrive personally and professionally.

As a renowned Harvard Medical School professor specializing in genetics and aging, Dr. Sinclair's research uncovers revolutionary strategies to slow aging and optimize human health. He is internationally acclaimed for pioneering discoveries such as NAD+’s role in lifespan extension and resveratrol’s activation of longevity pathways, reshaping how we understand health, wellness, and longevity.

Beyond academia, Dr. Sinclair’s insights have been featured on prominent platforms like 60 Minutes, Morgan Freeman’s "Through the Wormhole," and in TIME Magazine’s "100 Most Influential People in the World." His influence extends globally through biotech ventures, award-winning research, and best-selling publications.

At EO NERVE, Dr. Sinclair will offer practical, evidence-based strategies that EO members can apply immediately. Join him to discover actionable methods to amplify your health and resilience—elevating your life and business with unprecedented clarity and energy.

Verne Harnish

Verne Harnish is the founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), which now has over 18,000 members worldwide.

He also founded and chaired EO’s premier CEO program at MIT for 15 years—a program he continues to teach today, inspiring top executives to scale their businesses and impact.

As the founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 290 partners on six continents, Verne has dedicated the past four decades to helping companies grow and thrive. He’s the author of the acclaimed Mastering the Rockefeller Habits and Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0), which has been translated into 26 languages and has won eight major international book awards. His latest book, Start to Scale, offers practical insights for business leaders looking to accelerate their success.

Verne is a Global Scaleup Fellow at The Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard and serves on several boards, including The Riordan Clinic (as Vice Chair), Geoversity (as Co-Founder and Chair), and the social venture Million Dollar Women. A private investor in multiple scaleups, Verne balances his professional pursuits with personal passions for piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

Verne’s unmatched expertise in business scaling and strategic growth makes him a must-see at NERVE—where his insights will help you AMPLIFY your business success.

WORKSHOPS

Life by Design: A Proven Framework for a Connected, Purposeful, Legacy-Driven Family Ann Sheu

You’ve mastered scaling a business—but are you leading your family with the same clarity and intention?

In this powerful workshop, you’ll discover a simple but transformative framework to shift your home life from reactive to intentional. Through the Five Pillars of a Thriving Family, you’ll gain the tools to create alignment with your spouse, reconnect with your vision, and begin building the legacy you actually want to leave behind.

If you're ready to lead at home as powerfully as you do at work, this workshop is for you.

Key takeaways:

Assess the health of your family system across five core pillars: self-advocacy, leadership, teamwork, communication, and legacy.
Learn a simple weekly ritual (the Family Alignment Meeting) to reduce chaos and increase connection.
Walk away with practical tools you can use immediately to improve clarity and cohesion at home.
Reignite your vision for the life—and legacy—you’re building with your family.Here's some stuff

Below: A sneak preview of what will be covered in this workshop.

YOU SAY MORE THAN YOU THINK Janine Driver Body Language Expert

What if you could gain a 9-second advantage in every conversation—before a single word is spoken? In this workshop, Janine Driver will show you how.

This high-impact session is designed to help entrepreneurs amplify their presence, boost their influence, and decode the hidden messages in both body language and speech. You’ll learn four specific body language movements and powerful words with hidden meaning that can radically shift how you lead teams, close deals, and build trust in high-stakes moments. Whether you're negotiating with investors, managing internal conflict, or networking at a high level, these tools will give you the edge you didn’t know you were missing.

Janine Driver isn’t just teaching theory—she’s lived it. As CEO of the Body Language Institute, a New York Times best-selling author, and a former ATF investigator with over 16 years in federal law enforcement, Janine has trained elite teams at the FBI, CIA, and Fortune 500 companies like Coca-Cola and Salesforce. Her insights have been featured on the TODAY Show, CNN, and in The New York Times.

Blending science-backed strategies with humor and storytelling from her stand-up comedy days, Janine delivers a session that’s as unforgettable as it is actionable. Don’t miss the chance to learn from one of the world’s most dynamic experts in communication and deception detection.

Below: Janine shares body language secrets with Ethan King and gives us a taste of what we will learn in her workshop.

STAND OUT AND OWN THE ROOM EVERY

TIME YOU SPEAK Deirdre Van Nest

You’ve got A+ business chops—but if your speaking skills are stuck at a B-, you’re operating at a fraction of your influence and it’s costing you; leads, business, authority and impact.

In this session, Deirdre Van Nest will teach you what it takes to turn your voice- -how you speak, write, and share ideas- -into your most powerful asset and an engine for business growth.

Specifically, you'll discover how to captivate your audience from your very first words, because you either “hook ‘em or lose ‘em”- - your opening has the power to make or break your message. There’s no in-between.

Come ready. Bring an idea for a topic (if you have a written script even better). It could be a keynote, investor or product pitch, video, article, blog post, or team update. We’ll use it to level up how you show up.

Deirdre is the founder of Crazy Good Talks® and a top-rated international keynote speaker who’s been transforming business leaders into magnetic communicators for over 15 years. A passionate entrepreneur herself, she’s helped thousands craft their speeches and stories and use them as powerful tools for influence, visibility, and revenue growth. If you’re ready to turn your message into your greatest business asset, don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the best in the industry.

Below: Two very educational interviews with Deirdre, where you will learn advanced public speaking tips and learn more about this workshop.

AI-Powered Growth Strategies
DAVID ASARNOW

#1: Beginners Workshop

Lead or Be Left Behind: a 90-Minute Crash course in AI for Business Advantage

In just 90 minutes, discover how to harness AI as your unfair business advantage. This beginner-friendly crash course goes beyond the hype, you’ll learn the essentials of prompt engineering, watch live demonstrations on how to think and work with ChatGPT and other AI tools, and put them into action right there in the session. You’ll walk away with a clear understanding of AI, plus practical prompts and strategies you can start using immediately to save time, cut costs, and lead instead of being left behind.

#2: Advanced Workshop

Own the Ai Advantage: A2-Hour Live Advanced Deep-Dive Workshop To Build and Apply AI in Your Business

This 2-hour advanced, hands-on workshop is where strategy meets execution. With your laptop open, you’ll work live on your own business challenges as we guide you step-by-step through advanced prompt engineering, custom workflows, and building AI voice and chat agents you can deploy instantly. By the end, you won’t just understand AI, you’ll have working tools inside your business.

Bonus content below: A conversation between AI experts David Asarnow and Ethan King.

Brains, Guts, and Gratitude
Byron McFarland

How Buy-In Drives Business Value

Buy-in isn’t a buzzword — it’s the competitive advantage your business can’t afford to fake. In this interactive session, we’ll break down what it really takes to get your top people to think like owners, stay engaged through change, and deliver value that lives beyond you.

You’ll learn how to spot the five behaviors of an ownership mindset, how to use psychological reciprocity to enroll your team in your vision, and how to align incentives with what truly motivates your key people — using Expectancy Theory to assess belief, trust, and value in your plans for the future.

This is a workshop built for business owners who know that loyalty isn’t luck… it’s leadership. We’ll show you how to build it with brains, guts, and gratitude — and walk away with practical tools you can start using immediately.

Below: Get a sneak peek of what will be covered in this workshop.

Find and Protect Your Zone of Genius Jonathan Domsky

Jonathan Domsky’s workshop is designed to help you pinpoint your true "Zone of Genius"—the area where your passion, strengths, and unique value intersect—so you can amplify your effectiveness and fulfillment in business and life.

You'll learn to identify whether you're spending your workday on activities that energize and empower you, or if you're stuck in the deceptive comfort of merely excellent tasks. Jonathan provides practical strategies to shift your daily focus, helping you prioritize and fiercely protect the work you were uniquely born to do, turning overwhelming complexity into clarity and purpose.

Known affectionately by EO peers as "Yoda," Jonathan Domsky combines profound wisdom with actionable insights, derived from his extraordinary entrepreneurial journey and deep study of psychology, philosophy, and spirituality.

Having co-founded Kidorable—a global sensation in children's accessories sold in over 5,000 stores across 20 countries—Jonathan understands firsthand the difference between excellence and genius.

Attend this workshop to move beyond success into effortless, meaningful achievement, guided by a coach who transforms the tangled knots of business and life into pathways of clarity and joy.

Below: A sneak preview of what will be covered in this workshop.

Next-Level Leadership Rand Stagen

Rand Stagen’s Next-Level Leadership workshop equips entrepreneurs with transformative insights to accelerate growth and outsmart the competition. Participants will explore critical concepts such as the Founder’s Trap and Performance Paradox, learning practical strategies to transition from merely scrambling to truly scaling their businesses.

Through powerful tools like the After-Action Review (AAR), pioneered by military special forces, and Stagen’s proprietary “Gamefilming” toolkit, attendees will gain actionable frameworks to drive immediate and sustained high performance.

Rand Stagen brings unmatched credibility to this workshop as the CEO of the Stagen Leadership Academy, renowned for developing purpose-driven leaders across North America. As a co-founder of Conscious Capitalism and former EO Chapter President, Rand blends academic rigor from Harvard-backed methodologies with real-world entrepreneurial experience.

Attending this session is a must for any entrepreneur ready to amplify personal transformation, harness competitive advantage, and unlock new levels of leadership potential.

Below: A sneak preview of what will be covered in this workshop.

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