[4] He then spent the next couple of years competing in the four-man bobsleigh, training throughout 2004[5] and then racing on the World Cup circuit as part of the Australian team in 2005 and 2006.
In 1999, after completing a degree in education, Manton co-founded Whitelion Archived 27 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine, a not-for-profit organisation assisting youth in crisis within the juvenile justice system.
As a motivational speaker, he addresses a wide range of audiences,[6][7] and also works with Red Dust, a not-for-profit group which helps Indigenous communities.
His motivation to work in the field stemmed in part from his own experiences of being mentored as a troubled youth: at the age of 17, he nearly lost the use of his arm after breaking a thick glass window with it (he wore an arm-guard throughout his football career due to the injury), before the personal counselling he received from former Essendon player Alec Epis helped him to transform his outlook on life.
[8] He is the author of several books, including Dead Bolt, Praying Manton, Mongrel Punts and Hard Ball Gets, Tattoo Urself, I was Verka Serduchka, Authentic, Call that a Bovril?