Meet the AuthorsBob Burg Sharing the very principles contained in The Go-Giver, Bob has addressed audiences ranging in size from 50 to 16,000, sharing the platform with notables including today’s top speakers and broadcast personalities as well as government leaders such as cabinet secretaries and a former U.S. president. His first book, Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts Into Sales has sold over 175,000 copies and continues to be used as a training manual for top sales organizations. Bob is a staunch advocate, supporter and defender of the free enterprise system and seeks to empower individuals and organizations to thrive by working within its principles. He also puts his networking and go-giver abilities to use for charities, being a former Palm Beach County/Brooks Brothers Leukemia Society Man of the Year for his fundraising efforts on their behalf, and currently serving on the Board of Directors of Safe Harbor, the Northern Palm Beach County Humane Society. For more information, articles and free resources, please visit www.Burg.com John David Mann In 1986 John founded and wrote for Solstice, a journal on health, nutrition and environmental issues; his series on the climate crisis (yes, he was writing about this back in the 1980s) was selected for reprint in Utne Reader. In 1992 John helped write and produce the underground bestseller The Greatest Networker in the World, by John Milton Fogg, which became the defining book in its industry and sold over one million copies in eight languages. During the 1990s, John built a multimillion-dollar direct sales organization of over 100,000 distributors, earning a personal income of several million dollars. In the past few years, John has worked with Paul Zane Pilzer writing The Next Millionaires, with Jeff Olson writing The Slight Edge and with John Assaraf and Murray Smith writing The Answer (Atria–Simon & Schuster, 2008). He is coauthor with Cameron Johnson of You Call the Shots: The 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship (Free Press–Simon & Schuster, 2007); with Mark D. Siljander of A Deadly Misunderstanding (HarperOne, 2008); and with Bob Burg of The Go-Giver (Portfolio–Penguin, 2008). In 2007 he published The Zen of MLM (Owens & Alfred Press), a collection of his writings from the past seventeen years; it’s available at www.zenofmlm.com. You can visit him at www.johndavidmann.com.
Meet the Team Ana McClellan, M.A. (The Creative Advisor) Thom Scott (The Marketing Coach)
The McBride Literary Agency (The Agent)
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Bob Burg is a highly sought-after speaker at corporate, financial services and direct sales conventions. Combining humor and entertainment with bullet points of application-oriented information, audiences come away ready to immediately profit from Bob’s instruction and coaching.
John David Mann has been writing about business, leadership and the laws of success for twenty years, during which he has served as senior editor of the Upline journal and editor in chief of Network Marketing Lifestyles and Networking Times. John has been creating his own businesses since he was a teenager. At seventeeen, he started his own high school in Orange, New Jersey (called Changes, Inc.—you can read about it in his book, The Zen of MLM). Before turning to journalism and business, he forged a successful career as a concert cellist and prize-winning composer. As a teenager, he was recipient of the 1969 BMI Awards to Student Composers and several New Jersey State grants for composition; his compositions were performed throughout the U.S. and his musical score for Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound (written at age thirteen) was performed at the play’s original amphitheater in Delphi, Greece. 
Ana McClellan has a deep commitment to education as a primary tool for the empowerment of people seeking to grow successful networks and organizations. She has served as a corporate consultant, as senior editor of Network Marketing Lifestyles and contributing writer to Networking Times. Ana has a Masters degree in psychology and adult education, and is a former university faculty member. She was cofounder of New England’s first College of Chinese Medicine and has taught and lectured widely on health and traditional approaches to healing. Her counsel was instrumental in making The Go-Giver the powerful story that it is.
With a background as an advertising creative director, as well as the top marketing officer for a public company with a $600 million revenue base, Thom’s passion is to use his creative, results-oriented principles to help individuals and organizations leverage their marketing efforts to make more money, in less time and have a lot more fun! In his 20-year career in marketing, Thom’s work has been responsible for over a half billion dollars in increased revenues for his clients and employers. As the managing partner for Burg-Scott Communications, Inc., Thom has helped develop the vision and resources for guiding The Go-Giver out into the world. (
Portfolio (The Publisher)