John Wang is the bestselling author of Big Asian Energy, an Amazon's Top 20 Best Business Book 2025 honoree alongside Bill Gates and Brené Brown, Podcast Host, keynote/TEDx speaker, and a communication content creator with over 25 million views and 250,000 followers across social media.

John has been widely featured and has appeared on NBC, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, TEDx, and Audible. As a communication and leadership coach for over 15 years, John has helped employees from Fortune 50 companies including Google, Apple, Amazon, and Goldman Sachs to break through inner and outer limitations and to become recognized and powerful communicators and leaders.

Personal Story:

John was born in Taipei and immigrated to Canada at a young age. While he was initially so shy he described himself as “the wallflower behind the wallflowers”, his passion for learning (and parent’s ban of TV & video games) led him to confront his social awkwardness to become a confident communicator and speaker.

This passion for personal development led him to quit his law education (to his parents dismay) and his corporate job in market research. He would eventually start Mastery Academy, a private tutorial school teaching writing and leadership skills that would become one of the most sought-after programs with a 2 year waitlist, and becoming his first 7-figure venture.

However, this pattern of never ending striving would end up pushing him to depression, burnout, and his “dark night of the soul” moment — sparking a decade-long journey in therapy and inner-child healing, shadow work, mindfulness, and finally a returning to self. Since then, his work has shifted to helping Asian high achievers reprogram unhelpful patterns from cultural and childhood conditioning through the embodiment of authentic self-leadership.

Alongside sharing his own healing journey, John speaks about his personal experiments— including a year where he took an oath of radical honesty, a year preparing for his death, facing every fear he could list, and a year of kindness. He has traveled to over 52 countries around the world and continues to travel to speak and teach across the globe.

In 2025, he wrote Big Asian Energy after realizing that despite thousands of leadership and business books published each year, almost none of them ever talks about it from the unique experiences and perspectives of Asian Americans. It would eventually go on to appear on bestseller shelves, national news, Times Square Billboards, win awards, and appear in North America, Europe, and Hong Kong.