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Genius Group: Overhauling Education on a Massive Scale

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We need to learn how to learn! -It’s the idea behind Genius Group Ltd, the most famous and influential entrepreneur education company in the world.

It’s high time that we revamped the global education system - both children and adults deserve a chance to learn and become the best versions of themselves!

Many governments and universities have been working on this for years but to no avail! This might be so because it’s not just the system itself that needs changing, but the minds of the people, too.

Nelson Mandela’s quote - “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” serves as the company’s motto and encapsulates what they’re about. Drastic change, a revolution of thinking, a positive push to young people and experienced workers alike, blended in perfect synergy to achieve something more!

Nothing captures this better than the life story of Genius Group’s founder, Roger J. Hamilton, so continue reading about this remarkable individual.

A Great Man Has Appeared on the Horizon

Born in 1968 in Hong Kong to a British family, Roger Hamilton immediately showed everyone around him that he would grow to change the world. A smart and curious child, Roger quickly adapted to the various changes and relocations that he experienced.

After attending one of the most prestigious schools in Hong Kong, King George the V School, his family relocated to Papua New Guinea. Following that, Roger resided in the United Kingdom for a while, ultimately getting a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Cambridge in 1989.

It is at this point that Roger’s philosophy of life started to burgeon; how to learn more about all the different places in the world? How to study these spaces architecturally? How to approach city planning? And from here - How to approach thinking about planning? How to approach thinking about thinking? How do we teach people how to think?

At this point, the Roger J. Hamilton that we know now was born. Of course, his genius developed in the span of many years, but this was how it came to be! It’s beginnings that interest us most - just like they interest Roger the most!

We can go on talking about his life forever - it’s so eventful that we could even write a book on it!

Hold on a minute - Roger, himself, has already written a number of books!

Indeed - he’s quite the polymath, isn’t he? He spent his entire life going on entrepreneurship and education-related adventures, and Genius Group is just the cherry on top!

The Tale of Roger Hamilton, the Emancipator of Minds

Roger’s first move after graduating in 1989 was to start a company! That’s right! At the age of 21, Roger was already the co-founder of the London-based publishing company Footprints which, until its sale in 1994, revolutionized the world of pictorial maps!

As soon as this chapter closed, however, another had already started! Roger developed another company, Hand Technologies, before abandoning that endeavor completely and moving to Singapore. Roger decided to make Singapore, the city of the future, his home, where he still resides. Singapore is also the place of founding Free Market Media and Expat Living magazine.

Still, the world had seen nothing yet!

After writing his first book in 2002, the international best-seller Wink and Grow Rich, Roger did two crucial things that defined the rest of his life. Firstly, he co-founded the XL Group, as a system for connecting social entrepreneurs around the globe.

Secondly, Roger invented Wealth Dynamics, a personality-profiling tool, modeled after the psychoanalyst Carl Jung’s interpretation of the ancient, Chinese book of wisdom I Ching. This system serves to discover - and improve - the psychological strengths and weaknesses of individual entrepreneurs and members of entrepreneurial teams.

It was Wealth Dynamics that fundamentally altered the state of things. By tapping into the minds of people, Roger allowed potential businesspeople to see who they actually were and to realize who they could become one day.

Countless companies and individuals profited from his revolutionary idea, enabling the success of millions of startups to skyrocket exponentially. Roger was, of course, aware of this, as he kept working at the XL Group. While putting his knowledge to good use by collaborating on international projects, Roger also authored many books about business, life, psychology, and success.

Only after the establishment of Talent Dynamics, a specific corporate variant of Wealth Dynamics, Roger outlined a new, superior company meant to appear to the world.

Accompanied by Roger’s other best-seller, The Millionaire Masterplan published in 2014, Roger wrapped up the emerging of the newly-invented company.

Interestingly, all that’s been going on coincided with Roger founding the Green School in Bali, which focused specifically on children. Roger’s Green School focused on unveiling new education practices, raising environmental awareness, and training young minds.

Roger simply put two and two together, and in 2015 launched GeniusU, the education-focused EdTech part of the Entrepreneurs Institute. Incidentally, GeniusU was also the first version of what we today know as Genius Group.

The Road to Becoming a Genius

Don’t get us wrong - Roger doesn’t need to become a genius, he already is one!

But each and every one of us, our children, our co-workers, our partners, friends, and families, can become geniuses through this platform!

Officially Singapore-based since 2019, Genius Group Ltd. includes three branches; the main GeniusU, the Entrepreneurs Institute, and the Entrepreneur Resorts, all of which cover different aspects of the company. Also, Genius Group Ltd. includes both Wealth Dynamics and Talent Dynamics in its functioning.

Accepting students of all ages, literally of all ages, no matter how young or old, Genius Group proudly claims that their end goal is to “disrupt the education model”. Instead of teaching students how to abide by their boss’ demands and bow their head down before every authority figure they encounter, Genius Group promotes free thinking!

You can be your own boss! You can create your own individual job! You can create a job for thousands of other people! Educate children as if they’re entrepreneurs and educate entrepreneurs as if they’re children! Educate yourself, regardless of who and how old you are!

This is a terrific attitude and - obviously - a successful one. Ever since the company’s inception, Genius Group has had an annual growth rate of at least 50%!

With its first funding round in 2015 it managed to raise up to $400,000, while its latest one - Series C in 2020 raised an astonishing $8 million! A force to be reckoned with indeed!

Its functioning system can mainly be separated into a program of six categories: for students, for parents, for teachers, for schools & colleges, for companies, and for the government.

All of these programs can be taught either in-person, or virtually, locally, or globally, at universities, schools, camps, and through corporate training.

Moreover, you can optimize and listen to these courses in a variety of languages, such as Thai, Chinese, French, Japanese, English, and countless others! A myriad (physical and virtual) of events have been organized in more than 40 cities, moderated by reputable entrepreneurs who’ve benefited from Genius Group.

What’s more, they’re even working on developing a personalized AI (Artificial Intelligence) to cater to every student’s needs!

The Genius You Are Today

By 2021, Genius Group can boast of having more than 2 million students from over 200 countries around the world.

Roger’s Genius Group has eliminated any potential competitors, such as Clever, Founders4Schools, and TORSH, by either collaborating with them, or simply outclassing them. With more than 7,000 partners, 2,000 faculty members, and an average of 50,000 new annual community members, Genius Group is taking the world by storm!

Every week of 2020, around 4,000 new students joined the GeniusU platform!

The pre-IPO Group could boast a growth of 55% between 2018 and 2020, whereas with the IPO acquisitions between 2020 and 2021, it got up to $13.9 million in revenue! Most recently, it filed for a $49 million US IPO in July 2021, and for an additional $46 million IPO in August 2021!

Today, Genius Group offers employment to more than 251 people, all working towards delivering the best to its users. Roger’s Genius Group is headquartered in Singapore, with Roger himself acting as founder and CEO.

With over 500 shareholders and a reputation for days, Genius Group, like its genius founder, Roger Hamilton, overhauled both the minds of individuals and that of the entire global education.