Paul Woods

Paul Woods is the General Manager of the Adopt & Embrace team at Rapid Circle. The Adopt & Embrace team focuses on helping people get their day back through sustainable, relevant, and focused adoption of Microsoft 365 that results in real business outcomes. Prior to their acquisition by Rapid Circle in July 2021, Adopt & Embrace was announced as a finalist the Employee Experience category of the 2021 Microsoft Global Partner of the Year awards. In 2018, Adopt & Embrace was recognised as a Microsoft Global Partner of the year after just two years and nine months of operation. Before staring Adopt & Embrace in 2015, Paul held various marketing and management roles at a major Australian Microsoft Partner, and was a Technology Specialist at Microsoft Australia. He recently completed research as part of the Work/Industry Futures Research Program at the Queensland University of Technology, focusing on technology-enabled mobile work and the porosity of work/life borders. He has also been a member of the teaching team at the QUT Business School for Strategic Management and Negotiation Across Borders. Awarded Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award ten times, Paul is a regular speaker at community-based events as well as at regional and global Microsoft Conferences like Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft Ignite: The Tour, and Microsoft Inspire. Find him on Twitter as @paulwoods or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulwoods.