Don M. Green

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Born (1941-03-01) March 1, 1941 (age 83)
Stratton, Virginia
NationalityAmerican
Occupation
  • American Author
  • Public Speaker
  • Former Bank President
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Executive Director

Don M. Green

Don Macks Green (born March 1, 1941) is an American author, public speaker, former bank president, and the Chief Executive Officer[1] and Executive Director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation[2] located in Wise, Virginia on the campus of the University of Virginia's College at Wise, a position held since 2000. The nonprofit organization was founded in 1963 by the late W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill as a mechanism to preserve Hill's legacy. Hill is most known as author of Think and Grow Rich[3]and Law of Success.[4]

Green also serves as the University of Virginia's College at Wise Foundation Board President.[5] The group is charged with providing oversight and counsel in the development of the college in accordance with policy as set by the University of Virginia President and/or Rector and Board of Visitors.

Green is responsible for the generation scholarship funds through his work with the Napoleon Hill Foundation. In 2022, he facilitated the establishment of the Napoleon Hill Keys to Success Bicentennial Scholarship[6] with a $1 million pledge that was matched by the University of Virginia to promote business and entrepreneurship to students in the Southwest Virginia region, totaling $2 million. Green is credited with establishing multiple previous scholarships, six separate endowed scholarships, and a Professorship in Business Fund totaling more than $4 million in support.

Personal life

Early years

Don Green was born in 1941 in Stratton, Virginia. His father was a coal miner who married a girl who was thirteen years of age. His mother was from a family of sixteen children, all of whom lived to reach their adult years including his mother, living into their nineties. Both of Green's parents had seventh-grade educations and lived through the Great Depression. Green's oldest brother was born when his mother was sixteen, and before she was twenty-two, she had given birth to four sons, and later a daughter born at the age of twenty-seven. Green's father sustained a broken back from a mining accident and refused to seek federal assistance, but alternative supported the family as a coal truck driver while his back healed.[7]

During Green's high school years he built a backyard zoo showing off native wildlife to tourists in the hills of Southwest Virginia featuring rattlesnakes, copperheads, a bobcat named "Tom" and a black bear.

Education

Green graduated from Clinch Valley College, now known as UVA WISE, with a two-year degree, followed by a BA (Accounting and Business) degree from East Tennessee State University. He later studied advanced phases of banking at the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University. (The ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking[8] was hosted by Rutgers until the mid-1980s when it moved to the University of Delaware, and subsequently to Georgetown University. It is currently hosted by the University of Pennsylvania.)

Marriage and family

Green was married 54 years to wife Phyllis Ann Flanary Green, 72, until losing her battle with cancer in 2015. Green has one daughter, Donna Green Sikorski, a son-in-law, Roger, and one grandchild.

Professional work

At the age of twenty-one, Green started his banking career as a debt collector for a finance company. He was the youngest branch manager in the company's history with Time Finance, (CIT) in Plainfield, Indiana followed by a stint as a consumer finance manager in Kingsport, Tennessee. He later became Vice President of First State Bank from 1974-1983 in Norton, Virginia. At the age of 41, he presumed the position of President of Black Diamond Bank from 1983-2000. In 2000, he was selected as Executive Director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation by its Board of Trustees and relocated its world headquarters and archive offices in Wise, Virginia.

Aside from banking, Green acquired real estate holdings and started a real estate development company, a dry cleaning business, and other businesses.

Recognition and civic engagement

Green has served as president of the Wise County Chamber of Commerce[9] and currently serves as the University of Virginia's College at Wise Board president. He is a member of the UVA WISE Board of Trustees, the Hoge Masonic Lodge[10], Kiwanis Club and Shriners.

In 1998, he was awarded the Outstanding Citizen of the Year award, the Sam Walton Business Leader Award in 1998, the William P. Canto Memorial Education Aware in 1999, and Volunteer of the Year Award by the University of Virginia in 2000.

In 1998, he designed and launched a three-credit college course based on the principles found within Napoleon Hill's book, the Keys to Success, The Seventeen Principles of Success[11] at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. It has been taught annually face-to-face through the business department of the college. In 2022, Keys to Success Course was expanded to an online course format financially supported by multiple grants and through the fundraising efforts of the Napoleon Hill Foundation. It continues to be offered at no cost to all junior and senior high school students in the seven Southwest Virginia region, Russell, Scott, Buchanan, Dickenson, Wise, Tazewell, and Lee, and the City of Norton.

Authorship

Books authored:

  • Napoleon Hill, My Mentor [12]
  • Napoleon Hill's Your Millionaire Mindset: A Practical Guide to Increase Your Personal Wealth [13]
  • Napoleon Hill's Secret [14]
  • Everything I Know About Success I Learned from Napoleon Hill: Essential Lessons for Using the Power of Positive Thinking [15]

Books co-written:

  • The Gift of Giving: Living your Legacy [16] with Jim Stovall, president and founder, Narrative Television Network

Contributing writer:

Foreword author:

  • Napoleon Hill's Path to Personal Power [18]
  • Wishes Won't Bring Riches [19]
  • Wisdom for Winners [20]
  • Success in Hill Country [21]
  • Adversity and Advantage [22]
  • Napoleon Hill's First Editions [23]
  • Andrew Carnegie's Mental Dynamite [24]
  • Napoleon Hill's Golden Rule [25]

Introduction/preface author:

  • Napoleon Hill's Gold Standard [26]
  • Master Mind: Memoirs of Napoleon Hill [27]
  • Success with People [28]
  • Napoleon Hill's Life Lessons [29]
  • Napoleon Hill's Greatest Speeches [30]
  • Napoleon Hill's Timeless thoughts for Today [31]
  • Magic Seeds for Success [32]
  • Napoleon Hill's Daily Journal for Everyday Women[33]
  • Napoleon Hill's Daily Journal for Everyday Men [34]
  • The 5 Essential Principles of Think and Grow Rich: The Practical Steps to Transforming Your Desires into Riches [35]
  • Lessons on Success [36]
  • Success: Discovering the Path to Riches [37]
  • How to Own Your Own Mind [38]

Media

Green has been featured in radio, television, newspaper and magazine interviews and a feature film including:

  • The Oprah Winfrey Network's Belle Collective with Jean Chatzky Radio Show and Blog (2009)[39]
  • The CBS Morning Show, Richmond, Va
  • Think and Grow Rich: The Legacy [40]
  • Kingsport Times News
  • Coalfield Progress
  • Forbes Magazine
  • Success Magazine
  • Inside Personal Growth Podcast with Greg Voisen [41]
  • Ken Wall's Breakthrough Walls Podcast [42]
  • Inspired for Life Podcast with Chiara Sharp [43]
  • Business Innovators Radio Network with Dave Skattum [44]
  • The Entrepreneur's Library with Wade Danielson [45]
  • INformed People Magazine, September 2021 [46]
  • Bloomberg
  • The LATAM Leger [47]
  • CISION PR Newswire
  • Virtual Strategy Magazine
  • UVA Wise Magazine
  • UVA Magazine
  • Globe Newswire
  • Kingsport Times News
  • EIN News
  • JA Worldwide
  • Virtual Strategy Magazine
  • Success Profiles: Conversations with High Achievers

References

  1. ↑ Lake, Christopher. "About the Foundation | Napoleon Hill Foundation". Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  2. ↑ "The Napoleon Hill Foundation". Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  3. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (1937). Think and Grow Rich. United States: Sound Wisdom. ISBN 1937879488.
  4. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (1928). Law of Success. United States. ISBN 978-1640952072.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ↑ "About". The University of Virginia's College at Wise College Board. May 22, 2023. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
  6. ↑ Senta Scarborough, Senta (November 2, 2022). "Honoring Decades of Giving: The Napoleon Hill Foundation". Coalfield Progress. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
  7. ↑ Green, Don (2021). Napoleon Hill, my mentor : timeless principles to take your success to the next level (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-7225-0317-8. OCLC 1232867987.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ↑ "Rutgers University". Rutgers University Stonier Business School. Retrieved May 5, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ↑ "Home". Wise County Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
  10. ↑ "Masonic Lodge". May 23, 2022. Retrieved May 22, 2023.
  11. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (1994). Napoleon Hill's keys to success : the 17 principles of personal achievement. Matthew Sartwell. New York: Dutton. ISBN 0-525-93886-9. OCLC 30156370.
  12. ↑ Green, Don (2021). Napoleon Hill, my mentor : timeless principles to take your success to the next level (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-7225-0317-8. OCLC 1232867987.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ↑ Green, Don (2022). Napoleon Hill's your millionaire mindset : a practical guide to increasing your personal wealth. Shippensburg, PA. ISBN 978-1-64095-333-8. OCLC 1295697792.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ↑ Green, Don (2022). Napoleon Hill's secret. Boca Raton. ISBN 978-1-63006-243-9. OCLC 1350352892.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  15. ↑ Green, Don (2013). Everything I know about success I learned from Napoleon Hill : essential lessons for using the power of positive thinking. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-181007-4. OCLC 850699005.
  16. ↑ Stovall, Jim (2020). The gift of giving : living your legacy. Don Green. Shippensburg, PA. ISBN 978-1-64095-199-0. OCLC 1269437802.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  17. ↑ Dear Napoleon : the living legacy of Napoleon Hill and Think and grow rich. Jim Stovall, Napoleon Hill, Napoleon Hill Foundation. Shippensburg, PA. 2021. ISBN 978-1-64095-323-9. OCLC 1339097977.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  18. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2017). The Path to Personal Power. New York: Penguin Random House LLC.
  19. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2018). Wishes won't bring riches. New York. ISBN 978-0-14-311154-2. OCLC 1030445634.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  20. ↑ Stovall, Jim (2014). Wisdom for winners : a millionaire mindset. Napoleon Hill Foundation. Shippensburg, PA. ISBN 978-0-7684-0507-1. OCLC 869438438.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  21. ↑ Amy Clark (2019). Success in Hill Country. ISBN 978-1722501051. OCLC 1191249294.
  22. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2021). Adversity & advantage : achieving success in the face of challenges. Napoleon Hill Foundation. New York. ISBN 978-1-4549-4440-9. OCLC 1246284958.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  23. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2020). Napoleon Hill's first editions on mastering personal and professional success. Inc Entrepreneur Media. Irvine, CA. ISBN 978-1-61308-441-0. OCLC 1200833723.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  24. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2020). Andrew Carnegie's mental dynamite : how to unlock the awesome power of you. James Whittaker, Don Green, Sharon L. Lechter, Napoleon Hill Foundation. New York. ISBN 978-1-4549-3609-1. OCLC 1190651164.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  25. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2009). Napoleon Hill's golden rules : the lost writings. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-43043-9. OCLC 317470832.
  26. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2016). Napoleon Hill's gold standard : an official publication of the Napoleon Hill Foundation. Shippensburg, PA. ISBN 978-0-7684-1016-7. OCLC 960448246.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  27. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2021). Master mind : the memoirs of Napoleon Hill. W. Clement Stone, Virgil H. Lake. Shippensburg, PA. ISBN 978-1-64095-269-0. OCLC 1286281141.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  28. ↑ Robert, Cavett (2015). Success with people : your action plan for prosperity and success. Shippensburg, PA. ISBN 978-0-7684-0841-6. OCLC 933611283.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  29. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (c. 2017). Napoleon Hill's life lessons. Judith Ann Williamson, Napoleon Hill Foundation. Shippensburg, PA. ISBN 978-1-937879-76-1. OCLC 971515841.
  30. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2016). Napoleon Hill's greatest speeches. Shippensburg, PA. ISBN 978-0-7684-1020-4. OCLC 960446897.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  31. ↑ Williamson, Judith Ann (2019). Napoleon Hill's timeless thoughts for today. New York. ISBN 978-1-7225-0111-2. OCLC 1090440844.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  32. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2009). Napoleon Hill's Magic seeds for success : reflections for personal growth. Judith, Director, Napoleon Hill World Learning Center Williamson. Wise, Va., USA: The Napoleon Hill Foundation. ISBN 978-0-9771463-9-0. OCLC 437213141.
  33. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2009). Napoleon Hill's daily journal for everyday women. Judith Ann Williamson. Wise, Virginia. ISBN 978-0-9819511-2-6. OCLC 961932307.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  34. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2010). Napoleon Hill's daily journal for everyday men. Don Green. Wise, Virginia. ISBN 978-0-9819511-3-3. OCLC 961938993.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  35. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2018). The 5 essential principles of think & grow rich : the practical steps to transforming your desires into riches. Napoleon Hill, Napoleon Hill Foundation. Naperville, Illinois. ISBN 978-1-4926-5690-6. OCLC 1045070555.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  36. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2021). Lessons on success : 17 principles of personal achievement through action & attitude. Naperville, IL. ISBN 978-1-7282-1777-2. OCLC 1225509883.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  37. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2019). Success : discovering the path to riches. Napoleon Hill Foundation (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-250-22054-7. OCLC 1079843872.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  38. ↑ Hill, Napoleon (2017). How to own your own mind. New York, New York. ISBN 978-0-14-311152-8. OCLC 968772125.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  39. ↑ Shatzky, Jean (October 28, 2009). "The Belle Collective". Retrieved May 22, 2023.
  40. ↑ "Think and Grow Rich: The Legacy". IMBD. October 1, 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2023.
  41. ↑ Voisen, Greg (April 11, 2023). "Podcast 1003: Napoleon Hill's Secret with Don Green". Retrieved May 22, 2023.
  42. ↑ Walls, Ken (April 7, 2023). "Breakthrough Walls with Ken Walls: Interview with Don Green". Retrieved May 22, 2023.
  43. ↑ Sharp, Chiara (October 27, 2022). "Inspired for Life Podcast: Interview with Don Green". Retrieved May 22, 2023.
  44. ↑ Skattum, Dave (May 22, 2023). "Business Innovators Radio Network". Retrieved May 22, 2023.
  45. ↑ Wade, Danielson (August 27, 2014). "The Entrepreneurs Library: A Preview of Think and Grow Rich with Don M Green". {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)
  46. ↑ Mitchell, LuAnn (September 15, 2021). "INformed People Magazine, September 2021". {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)
  47. ↑ "Napoleon Hill Foundation CEO Don Green, Commends Krystylle Richardson for bringing Life Innovation Global ™ to the world". January 13, 2022. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)

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