After studying Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Communication Theory, and Semiotic Wolfgang Wolf has had a successful career specializing in creative and marketing roles, working for some prestigious advertising agencies, co-founding Ogilvy & Mather Direct in Auckland, and, after some freelance work in Los Angeles, USA, setting up his own agency in Auckland, NZ. Unfortunately this closed when he had a major stroke in 1990. While he recovered from this Stroke he wrote the book “I’m not Stupid, Just Disabled”. A newly edited version of it was published on Amazon under the title "How to Survive after a Stroke".
He then went on to study Social Practice, completed a Bachelor degree in Counselling, and a Diploma in Community Development. While studying Wolfgang founded the registered charity "Computers Against Isolation", which buys ex-lease computers, and gives them (for free) to people who are disabled throughout New Zealand. Experience has taught him that contact to the outside world is a major problem for many disabled people. Now Wolfgang works as a professional speaker and trainer. He is a regular guest speaker at Unitec in Auckland, talking to Bachelor of Nursing, and Bachelor of Social Practice students on Communication Theory, Social Science, Rehabilitation, and Disability. He also presents to various community organisations and at conferences. He is a counsellor/mentor for people who have had some trauma in their life (http://wolfgangwolfthestrokementor.weebly.com), and chairman of the charity “Computers Against Isolation" (www.computersagainstisolation.com).
Apart from this he also writes a blog about disability, rehabilitation, adversity, and getting on with life (http://theglassishalffull.weebly.com), which are also subjects in many of his talks in which he shows people how a different outlook on life can make you happier.
