John David Mann is the award-winning coauthor of over 40 books, including the New York Times bestselling parable The Latte Factor with personal finance legend David Bach and the worldwide 2008 classic The Go-Giver with Bob Burg (more than 1 million copies sold), which was awarded the 2017 Living Now Evergreen Medal for its “contribution to positive global change.” His first novel, Steel Fear, with former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb, was nominated for a Barry Award, named one of the “best books of 2021” by Publishers Weekly, hailed by Jack Reacher author Lee Child as “an instant classic, maybe an instant legend,” and is in development as a television series.
John’s diverse career has made him a thought leader in multiple industries. At 15 he was recipient of the BMI Awards to Student Composers (then their youngest award recipient ever); his musical score for Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, written at age 13, was performed at the amphitheater in Epidaurus, Greece, where the play was originally premiered 2500 years ago. At 17, he and a few friends started their own high school in central New Jersey, where he was subsequently on the faculty. In 1986 John founded and wrote for Solstice, a national journal on health and environmental issues. During the 1990s, he built a multimillion-dollar sales organization of over 100,000 people. John lives in Florida and New England, where he leads a coaching program for authors called Writing Mastery Mentorship.