Darren Mann

Keynote Speaker | Vancouver, British Columbia

Leadership Coach & Consultant
Resilience, Courageous Communication & Emerging Leadership Expert

Darren Mann's Expertise: Leadership, Resilience & Adversity, Communication, Leadership Development, Organizational Change, Teamwork, Leadership and Change, Resilience & Change, Personal Growth, Psychological Safety, Mindset & Goal Accomplishment and Difficult Conversations.

Darren Mann

About Speaker Darren Mann

Darren Mann is a leadership speaker, resilience, courageous communication and emerging leadership expert who equips organizations to develop confident leaders who build trust strengthen teams and navigate change. With more than 15 years of leadership experience across higher education, healthcare, insurance and the public sector, he brings practical experience from complex, high risk initiatives and team leadership. As a John Maxwell Certified Coach, Speaker and Trainer, Darren combines authentic storytelling, interactive learning and practical frameworks. His presentations help leaders communicate with courage, build resilience and take intentional action.

Darren Mann | Leadership & Resilience Expert

Darren Mann | Leadership & Resilience Expert

Rise Above Routine: Embrace Failure

Rise Above Routine: Embrace Failure

Darren Mann Rise Above Routine Workshop Excerpts

Darren Mann Rise Above Routine Workshop Excerpts

Darren Mann Biography

Darren Mann is a leadership speaker, resilience, courageous communication and emerging leadership expert who equips organizations to develop confident leaders who build trust, strengthen teams and navigate change. Darren Mann brings more than 15 years of leadership experience managing complex, high risk initiatives across higher education, healthcare, insurance and the public sector.

Throughout his career, Darren Mann has led transformational initiatives, managed multimillion dollar projects and worked in environments where communication, collaboration and leadership directly influenced results. Darren Mann has managed contracts valued at more than $120 million and has developed teams and professional communities while helping people grow into stronger leaders.

As a John Maxwell Certified Coach, Speaker and Trainer, Darren Mann combines practical leadership principles with authentic storytelling, audience interaction and immediately applicable frameworks. Darren Mann believes leadership grows through connection, intentional action and continuous learning rather than position or title.

Organizations engage Darren Mann to help leaders communicate with courage, embrace change, build resilience and create stronger workplace relationships. Darren Mann delivers keynote presentations, workshops and leadership development sessions designed to move participants from reflection to practical action.

Darren Mann is the author of Rise Above Routine: Embrace Life Beyond Your Comfort Zone, along with leadership resources including Three Pillars of Learning and Three Keys to Overcoming Overwhelm in Your Leadership Role. Through these resources and presentations, Darren Mann encourages leaders to challenge limiting routines, learn from setbacks and pursue meaningful growth with greater confidence.

Darren Mann has delivered more than 100 speaking engagements for universities, professional associations, conferences, community organizations and project management audiences. His speaking experience includes work with Simon Fraser University, Trinity Western University, Los Angeles Pacific University, YMCA BC, the Administrative and Professional Staff Association and more than 10 Project Management Institute chapters.

Darren Mann is known for an approachable, interactive style that combines personal experiences, thoughtful reflection and practical application. Client feedback consistently highlights Darren Mann’s preparation, engaging delivery, memorable frameworks and ability to provide tools audiences can apply immediately.

Whether speaking to emerging leaders, experienced managers, entrepreneurs or professional audiences, Darren Mann focuses on helping people communicate with confidence, respond to challenges with resilience and lead with greater intention. Darren Mann’s guiding belief is that leadership is influence, and influence depends on connection.

Darren Mann Topic Presentations

Darren Mann From Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.

Rise Above Routine: Embrace Life Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Learn How to Succeed After Failure: The Mindset Needed to Rise After a Setback

Three Pillars of Courageous Communication: Building Confidence for Conversations That Matter

Why High Performing Leaders Get Stuck: Breaking Through Hidden Leadership Barriers

Books
Darren Mann
  • Rise Above Routine Embracing Life Outside of Your Comfort Zone
Podcasts
Darren Mann
  • #59: How Leaders Can Rise Above Routine with Darren Mann
  • Finding Faith and Leadership: a Journey of Transformation and Mentorship with Darren
Articles
Darren Mann
  • Courage to Rest: Lead by Saying No!
  • The Art of Active Listening: the Leadership Skill Most People Overlook

Darren Mann Speaking Testimonials

"Darren Mann delivered an exceptional presentation, Rise Above Routine: Embrace Life Beyond Your Comfort Zone, for the YMCA BC Self Employment Program’s Entrepreneur Success workshop. His well designed framework was engaging, memorable and actionable, and the FAIL and ICAN frameworks helped participants reframe challenges and sustain forward momentum. Darren also shared meaningful examples from his career journey and conducted a pre presentation interview to ensure a good fit. We are deeply grateful to have a professional speaker of Darren’s calibre share his wisdom with our entrepreneurial community."

Lynne Brisdon, MCC

Manager, Self Employment Program
YMCA BC

"Darren Mann delivered an engaging and insightful session for the PMI Vancouver Island Chapter. His message on stepping beyond routine and leading with intention resonated with the audience, while the practical insights and interactive elements made the session impactful, memorable and reflective. We appreciated the time, preparation and energy Darren brought to the presentation. It was a pleasure hosting him."

Elohor Eradajaye

Professional Development Event Director
PMI Vancouver Island Chapter

"Darren Mann provided our members with a valuable opportunity to improve their communication and connection skills. We appreciate his leadership in conducting these workshops."

Lakshmi Gosyne

Associate Director, Communications
Administrative and Professional Staff Association

"Darren Mann shared valuable insights and practical tools in Rise Above Routine: Embrace Life Beyond Your Comfort Zone. These are practical strategies that every project manager should learn and actively apply."

Siamak Hashemian, PMP, CPM

Attendee
PMI Lake Ontario Chapter

"Darren Mann created a workshop experience that left me eager to attend his next session. I asked to be added to the waitlist for future workshops."

Saba Fatemi

Program Manager  
Simon Fraser University

"Darren Mann’s presentation reminded me to ask for what I want instead of hoping others will notice. His insights normalized the reality that growth in entrepreneurship is not linear and encouraged me to ask what next step I can take in this moment."

Narissa Kohut

Participant, Self Employment Program
YMCA BC

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