Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Scott Mann is a former U.S. Army Green Beret with tours all over the world including Colombia, Paraguay, and multiple tours in Afghanistan. He is a warrior storyteller and the founder of Rooftop Leadership and Scott Mann Leadership Academy, where he shares the rapport-building skills he learned in Special Forces to help today's leaders make better human connections in high-stakes, low-trust engagements. Scott helps organizations and leaders gain a better understanding of their internal culture while exposing the potential for conflict that exists when trust has deteriorated. In the same way he empowered local tribes in Afghanistan to make transformative decisions using very few resources, Scott teaches corporate leaders and their teams the relationship-building techniques that drove so many of his successful combat operations.

Scott is the author of Nobody is Coming to Save You, a hard-hitting field manual for leaders striving to make deeper human connections, as well as the instant New York Times Best Seller, Operation Pineapple Express, a third-person narrative detailing the harrowing stories of the Veterans, volunteers, and Afghan Allies who navigated the US  abandonment of Afghanistan in August of  2021.

He has since founded Task Force Pineapple, a 501c3 that leverages warrior storytelling to help overcome the emerging moral injury and educate civilians on the mental health needs of our Veterans. He regularly advocates in Congress and on national media outlets, such as CNN, FOX, and MSNBC, for U.S. Veteran Mental Health.

Scott has spoken on three TEDx stages, hosts The Scott Mann Podcast, and is also a playwright and actor in his recent play brought to film about the Afghan War and the unforeseen toll on our Veterans called, Last Out. The Gary Sinise Foundation partnered up with Scott to bring the play, Last Out, to the legendary Steppenwolf theater and stages across the country to provide healing to our Veterans and Families of the Fallen, as well as providing insight to our citizens on the personal cost of the longest war in our Nation’s history.

Scott’s greatest accomplishments are his family; he has three grown sons which now gives him the newfound opportunity to spend most of his time with Monty, his wife of 30 years, traveling, storytelling, or just spending time around their Tampa home.­­