2. WHO IS HE?
Born in 1964 January 29
He holds a bachelor's degree , a master's
degree in business administration and has
received honorary PhD's from McGill University
Founder of room to read, a non profit
organization focused on literacy and gender
equality in education
3. WHAT DID HE DO?
During his vacation , he met the “resource director” for the
schools in the Annapurna Circuit of Nepal, he got inspired
by the fact that the kids in the school do not have proper
reading materials.
He then quit his job in Microsoft and created a organization
called ”room to read”.
He is currently supporting 10 developing countries throughout Asia and
Africa, (Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Nepal, South Africa, Sri
Lanka, Tanznia, Vietnam and Zambia)
4. HIS IMPACT TO THE WORLD
His non profit organization have help thousands of students
in these primary schools to have a habit of reading.
During their tenth anniversary in 2010, which included the
opening of its 10,000th library, construction of its 1,000th
school, and support of its 10,000th girl through the
organization's Girls' Education program.
As of 2016 roam to read have created a total of 2,400
school infrastructure projects, opened over 18,000 libraries
filled with 16 million books, which benefited over 37 000 girls
from this organisation.
5. WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM HIM
Despite working under one of the biggest company in the
world, he took risk to quit his job and pursue what he
believed in. This passion of his have led my team to believe
that in life we need to leave our comfort zone and chase our
dreams even though it seems to be impossible.
John wood have also taught us how business needs to have
more passion and more authentic, inspiring leadership.
Instead of focusing on how to earn more profit, we also must
include how to benefit and help the needy.
