Don Mann
Shares a high-octane narrative of physical and mental toughness
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- Former Navy SEAL Team SIX Commando,
- Renowned World-Class Adventure Competitor
- New York Times Best Selling Author
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Don Mann, former Navy SEAL Team SIX Commando, renowned World–Class Adventure Competitor and New York Times Best Selling Author presents a compelling and extremely motivating presentation that has inspired business leaders and professionals from all walks of life.
Don Mann’s unique story and the lessons he shares during his highly-accredited and very popular presentations come from his colorful and action-packed life as a Navy SEAL, of his experiences competing in some of the world’s most grueling competitions, his experience in the business world and as a New York Times Best Selling Author.
Mann’s impressive military biography includes being a decorated combat veteran; Corpsman; SEAL Special Operations Technician; jungle survival, desert survival, and arctic survival instructor; small arms weapons instructor, foreign weapons instructor, armed and unarmed defense tactics, advanced hand-to-hand combat instructor; and Survival, Evade, Resistance and Escape Instructor; in addition to other credentials.
Mann is the author of twelve books including the New York Times Best Selling autobiography Inside SEAL Team SIX: My Life and Missions with America’s Elite Warriors.
When Osama bin Laden was assassinated, the entire world was fascinated by the men who had completed the seemingly impossible mission that had dogged the U.S. government for over a decade. SEAL Team SIX became synonymous with heroism, duty, and justice. Only a handful of the elite men who make up the SEALs, the U.S. Navy’s best and bravest, survive the legendary and grueling selection process that leads to SEAL Team SIX, a group so classified it technically does not even exist. There are no better warriors on earth.
Mann knows what it takes to be a brother of these ultra-selective fraternities. As a member of SEAL Team SIX he worked in countless covert operations, operating from land, sea, and air, and facing shootings, decapitations, and stabbings. He was captured by the enemy and lived to tell the tale, and he participated in highly classified missions all over the globe, including Somalia, Panama, El Salvador, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
To become a SEAL, Mann had to overcome his own troubled childhood and push his body to its breaking point–and beyond. At the podium and in Inside SEAL Team SIX, he shares a high-octane narrative of physical and mental toughness, giving unprecedented insight to the inner workings of the training and secret missions of the world’s most respected and feared combat unit.
Don Mann has over 40 years (1,000+ races) worth of competitive racing experience, and was once ranked 38th in the world as a triathlete.
Mann received a Master’s in Management from Troy State University, in Troy, AL, a B.S. in International Relations & Criminal Justice, from Florida State University, in Tallahassee, FL, and a B.S. in Liberal Science, from State University of New York. He lives in Cape Charles, VA.
Don Mann’s unique story and the lessons he shares during his highly-accredited and popular presentations come from his colorful and action-packed life as a Navy SEAL Team SIX commando, an internationally renowned endurance athlete and as a New York Times Best-Selling Author. He has changed countless lives by sharing his unique “Reaching Beyond Boundaries” philosophy. Don has tailored his presentation to meet the needs of those in the corporate, financial, medical, educational and athletic communities.
He shares insights into his personal philosophy of setting micro-goals to achieve macro-goals while instructing organizations how to employ that same philosophy to achieve both personal and professional success.
Don’s message includes equal doses of inspiration and strategy. As he likes to say, “Anybody with the proper mindset can achieve anything imaginable.”
Setting macro goals is an important way for organizations to identify what it is they want to accomplish, although sometimes reaching those goals can be a daunting task. By breaking those macro goals down into micro goals, they become much more manageable and easier to handle.
Shortly after the mission that left Osama bin Laden dead, Mann published the bestseller Inside Seal Team SIX: My Life and Missions with America’s Elite Warriors. He incorporates many of the same lessons and stories into his presentations, which often leave attendees inspired to change how they live.
In his inspiring presentation “Reaching Beyond Boundaries” Mann reveals similar stories and personal anecdotes from his many years working with the SEAL teams and competing as a world-class athlete.
As founder of the SEAL Adventure Challenge, SEAL Training Academy, SEAL Adventure Leadership Training, Odyssey Adventure Racing and Odyssey Adventure Leadership Training, Don Mann has been very successful since 1997 in providing adventure leadership opportunities for people of all athletic abilities and backgrounds.
When not conducting world-class competitions, he conducts team building programs for business and government personnel through Don Mann Enterprises, Inc. (DME).
DME’s leadership programs are effective by modeling each program to fit the client’s specific needs. The training provides activities that build individual and team strength and confidence. Participants are introduced to activities that bring them out of their “comfort zone”. Various adventure sport and/or military training evolutions are implemented in which the strong must help team mates, such that all participants find their own individual strengths and weaknesses.
DME programs are designed to meet individual or organizational goals and training objectives, and do it in a way that participants enjoy, and find life affirming.
Don Mann is known for producing and directing more multi-day, multi-sport, adventure races, triathlons and other extreme sporting events than any other person in the world.
Don Mann has over 20 years (1,000+ races) worth of competitive racing experience and was once ranked 38th in the world as a triathlete. Don Mann has been featured on: ABC, CBS, CBN, CNN, NBC, OLN, ESPN, MSNBC Morning Joe, Weather Channel, ABC/NBC affiliates, ABC 20/20, RUSH International, FOX Family network, Fox and Friends, Good Morning San Diego, The Daily Beast, The Ski Channel, the Lars Larsen Show, The Breakfast Buss, News Channel 3 Norfolk, News Channel 13 Norfolk, NPR, G. Gordon Liddy Radio Talk Show, Fox Radio, CNN radio and the Ostrolenk Radio show. Articles on Don can be found in: Sports Illustrated, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Men’s Fitness, Runner’s World, Triathlete, Trail Runner, National Geographic Adventure, Outside Magazine, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, New York Times, Denver Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Rapid City Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek, Military Press ,Adventure Sports Magazine, Chicago Sun Times, American Thinker magazine, Boys Life, CNN.com, iTunes, Blackfive.net and Myshelf.com.as well as many more print and web based sources.
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