John Wood

John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work not at business school or helping lead Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. He made the difficult decision to walk away from his lucrative career to create Room to Read, a non-profit organisation that promotes education across the developing...

The long awaited autobiography of one of Australia's best loved actors. Your job is to go out there, grab the audience by the balls, and drag them up on stage with you! I was flabbergasted. This I understood. A language that I spoke—had spoken most of my life. It was the best acting note I ever got. John Wood grew...

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World is a captivating memoir by John Wood, tracing his transformative journey from a high-powered executive to a pioneering social entrepreneur. In 1998, Wood was a rising executive at Microsoft, climbing the corporate ladder and achieving considerable success. However, during a life-defining trek through the remote villages of Nepal, Wood encountered schools devoid of books...