Scaling Up with AI Workshop

Tools, AI, and mindset to accelerate growth and banish overwhelm

Ready for a breakthrough in growth? Feeling overwhelmed and unable to find the time to be strategic?

You can create your first growth breakthrough in this powerful half-day workshop. You'll see which proven Scaling Up tools fit your current growth challenge, and how to apply them faster than ever using AI. Anyone can grab AI prompts off the internet. Most of what comes back is slop. 

The difference here is the combination: AI speed, plus 70,000 leaders' worth of proven Scaling Up tools, plus live coaching wisdom to sharpen what the AI gives you. That intersection is where breakthroughs happen.

WORK SMARTER, NOT JUST HARDER

ALIGN

Get faster results with less effort by developing organizational clarity and accountability. AI prompts help your whole team get aligned in minutes, not weeks.

ACCELERATE

Develop a strategic advantage over the competition. AI plus a coach's judgment pressure-tests your strategy and positions your brand as a market leader.

ADVANCE

A proven framework, now supercharged. Scaling Up tools plus AI help companies move faster, dig deeper, and make a bigger difference in the world.

Why You Should Attend

If you are a CEO, entrepreneur, or member of a leadership team, this workshop is for you. You'll create your first breakthrough and learn the combination that works today: AI for speed, proven tools for structure, coaching wisdom for judgment. No slop, just sharp strategy you can act on Monday.

Those who don't feel they received the value of money spent from this event will get their tickets refunded in their entirety.

Workshop Dates & Times

Live In Person in One Embarcadero Center, Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA, 94111

Aug 6, 2026

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT

Online - Zoom

Sept 17, 2026

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT

Live In Person

Oct 22, 2026

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT

Live In Person

Nov 19, 2026

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST

Online - Zoom

What Participant Will Receive

  1. Breakthrough coaching on growth mindset for your own main business challenge
  2. Live training on how to select and use Scaling Up Growth Tools with AI
  3. 90-page workbook of Growth Tools+ (printed in person, PDF online)
  4. A library of coach-refined AI prompts to work through every tool, yours to keep and reuse with your team
  5. Group discussions and examples of real growth companies and what worked

About Scaling Up

Scaling Up is the best selling book and world renowned growth platform from Verne Harnish and the team at Gazelles. Working with over 70,000 leaders, our programs and coaching have helped:

  1. Attract and keep the right PEOPLE
  2. Create a differentiated growth STRATEGY
  3. Drive relentless repeatability and flawless EXECUTION
  4. Find plenty of CASH to fund growth

The Scaling Up growth platform includes tools, case studies, examples, exercises, and is combined with live coaching and group discussions to accelerate your results. Bill has built AI into every step of the system, advised by his son, an AI researcher at Anthropic.

What you'll learn in the workshop

  1. What is your first growth CONSTRAINT to remove
  2. Where your current LEADERSHIP mindset is blocking growth
  3. Which TOOLS to use and how to support your new approach
  4. How to engage and retain the right PEOPLE for growth
  5. Update and clarify your STRATEGY to drive growth now
  6. How to reduce overwhelm and achieve great EXECUTION
  7. Where and how to find the CASH to fuel growth
  8. How to use AI prompts alongside the workbook to apply every tool, with your team, in real time

Meet Your Workshop Host

Bill Gallagher

Bill Gallagher is a highly rated business coach whose passion is helping CEOs and entrepreneurs manage growth better; restore time, order and sanity to their lives, and get growing again or growing faster. With more than 38 years of entrepreneurial and executive experience and 19 years coaching and training leaders who want to improve their leadership and performance, he now works with leaders and teams in over 28 cities and 13 countries. He has led four companies as CEO/owner and was a partner/executive in two others as they grew from startup to more than $550 million in annual revenue.

A former DJ and radio executive, Bill hosts the weekly Scaling Up Podcast/show. Bill uses AI throughout his coaching practice and is advised by his son Jack, an AI researcher at Anthropic. In his free time, he is an avid wing surfer, sailor, skateboarder, pilot, scuba enthusiast and recovering triathlete. Happily married for 30 years, he and his wife Lori live in the Oakland Hills and are parents to two young adult entrepreneurs.