DON GREENis executive director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation and president of the foundation board at the University of Virginia-Wise. He became CEO of Black Diamond Savings Bank at 41 and studied under personal development master W. Clement Stone. He travels extensively, lecturing worldwide for the Foundation. Most recently, Mr. Green was featured in a United Nations forum on the importance of entrepreneurship within the national economy. Green's first youthful business venture was charging admission to see his pet bear-yes, the living, growling kind! Since 2000, Green has traveled worldwide and used his finance skills to grow the Napoleon Hill Foundation's funds in order to continue the Foundation's educational outreach to prisons. Green has both modeled leadership skills as a CEO and taught them through the PMA Science of Success course at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. Don specializes in discussing his personal experiences in leadership and providing audiences with proven methods of applying Dr. Hill's success philosophy to business. Green brings nearly 45 years of banking, finance, and entrepreneurship experience to his role as Executive Director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, and is the author ofEverything I Know About Success I Learned from Napoleon Hill,Napoleon Hill My Mentor,Napoleon Hill's Your Millionaire Mindset and The Gift of Giving. He lives and works in the Wise metro area. naphill.org
Praise for Everything I Know About Success I Learned from Napoleon Hill: Essential Lessons for Using the Power of Positive Thinking by Don Green This book is proof that dynamite comes in small packages. -- Les Brown, noted author and motivational speaker Life lessons come in two forms: theoretical lessons and life experiences. In Everything I Know About Success I Learned from Napoleon Hill, Don has married the theoretical and the practical into one powerful tool. He weaves the timeless truths from the master, Napoleon Hill, with his own life's experience of overwhelming success. -- Jim Stovall, bestselling author of The Ultimate Gift [Don Green] shares his brilliance and lifelong formula for success with you in Everything I Know About Success I Learned from Napoleon Hill. -- Sharon Lechter, coauthor of the Rich Dad Poor Dad series and editor, Napoleon Hill's Outwitting the Devil Don Green has walked in the footsteps of, and sat in the chair of, Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone. That alone would not make him successful, were he not the consummate student, the tireless worker, and have the burning desire to succeed. Combine that with his wisdom and his ability to maintain the highest level of ethics. Don Green's career has been a book that has finally come to life--a book that will inspire you to a thousand new thoughts, and a million new dollars. -- Jeffrey Gitomer, bestselling author of The Little Red Book of Selling Don has a simple way of sharing meaningful insights that make you want to stand up and cheer. -- Ron Glosser, former bank CEO and CEO of Hershey Foundation