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Building A Business Book Community – Questions For John Wood

We’re in the midst of the launch for Foreword Thinking – The Business and Motivational Book Review Podcast presented by HarperCollins Canada with me as your host. I’m still stumped about how I’m going to manage two Podcasts, this Blog, my Twitterati status and, oh yeah, my Digital Marketing Agency. When we started kicking around ideas for Foreword Thinking, one of the big ones was democratizing the conversations with all of these amazing writers, thinkers and speakers by opening up questions to the greater community.
HarperCollins Canada has arranged for some time to chat with John Wood. In case the name doesn’t ring a bell, Wood is the founder of Room To Read an amazing organization that “partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries, and other educational infrastructure.” Wood is a former Microsoft executive who experienced a developing country’s issues first hand and started off by delivering some books, so they could start a local library. This one action created a chain-reaction of events which bring us to today and his organization, Room To Read, which has established more libraries than Andrew Carnegie and the publishing of Wood’s powerful book, Leaving Microsoft To Change The World – An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey To Educate The World’s Children.
I’ve met Wood – he’s an amazing person. I actually just got word that we’ll be sharing the stage in Calgary at an upcoming event (hint: it starts with “Power” and ends with “Within”) and with this conversation for Foreword Thinking on the horizon, I would like to open the questions, comments and thoughts to this community.
Let me know what you would like to discuss with John Wood and let’s help bring Foreword Thinking – The Business and Motivational Book Review Podcast to the community at large.
Special thanks to Michelle C. Dy from the Philippines for the email and re-ignition of the idea to have listeners ask the questions.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.