Don Mann

Don Mann Profile

A respected authority on military issues, leadership, teamwork, and reaching peak performance in high-stressed situations, Don Mann is a decorated combat veteran, motivational speaker, endurance athlete and NY Times Best-Selling Author. As a member of Seal Team Six and as a CIA operative, he worked in countless covert operations, operating from land, sea, and air, often at the risk of being shot, decapitated, or stabbed.

Mann participated in highly classified missions around the globe, including Somalia, Panama, El Salvador, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. His survival of enemy capture and numerous other adventures were widely read in his nationally best-selling autobiography
Inside SEAL Team Six: My Life and Missions with America’s Elite Warriors. As a training coordinator for several civilian SEAL training programs, and as a former Training Officer of SEAL Team 6, he was directly responsible for shaping the bodies and minds of SEALs who carried out the assassination of Osama bin Laden as well as many other classified missions.

A highly popular speaker in both the corporate world and general public, Mann inspires people to overcome their personal challenges and chart a path for future success. In addition to being recognized for his extensive military service, Mann is known for producing and directing more multi-day, multi-sport, adventure races, triathlons and SEAL training events than any other person in the world.

Mann is the founder of Frogman Charities, a nonprofit organization that has raised millions of dollars through virtual run/walk events for charities that provide support to U.S. Navy SEAL veterans, military personnel and their families.

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  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, as a contractor for the CIA, 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 eleven 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 6 became synonymous with heroism, duty, and justice. Only a handful of the elite men who make up the SEALs, the US Navy’s best and bravest, survive the legendary and grueling selection process that leads to Team 6, 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 and as a CIA operative, 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.

  As a training coordinator for several civilian SEAL training programs, and as a former Training Officer of SEAL Team 6, he was directly responsible for shaping the bodies and minds of SEALs who carried out the assassination of Osama bin Laden as well as many other classified missions.

  But 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 6, 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 Masters 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.