About LRI

As an educator, and even from a young age, Dr. Jeannette Vos was somewhat of a revolutionary—thinking differently from the norm, always asking questions, and seeking to learn more, even though she was the immigrant child who spoke no English in the Canadian society her parents chose to call their new home after Hitler’s troops flattened The Netherlands.

Jeannette was a dreamer and had a dream to travel the world but she was a girl who worked in the fields and factory to earn money for school and later university. She never realized that someday she would fulfill that dream by becoming a Doctor of Education and then travelling the world with a best-selling book. How did this happen? She believes it was because she refused to give up.

After completing her doctoral dissertation on accelerated and integrative learning, based on best practices from around the world, Jeannette met New Zealand talk show host Gordon Dryden and this meeting changed the direction of Jeannette’s life. Combined with the material from Gordon’s educational television show Where To Now? her breakthrough study clinched the premise that students could really accelerate their learning and get better grades quickly and easily in a fun-filled way, in just 10 days! Learning in this way, made the impossible possible.

So, it was when Jeannette’s educational experience (teaching with all age levels) and doctoral research linked with Gordon’s television and journalism background that the foundation for their first book, The Learning Revolution, was created. To their surprise, the book sold over 10 million copies internationally. Jeannette then launched The Learning Revolution International (LRI) as the official platform for all of her work.

Gordon and Jeannette faxed the whole first edition of the book as the internet was just beginning to take off. Throughout approximately 20 years, little by little, after four editions the digital revolution they had predicted initially came into full force. It took off much like the first moon landing that began changing our history.

Their work began to disrupt the chalk-and-talk teaching practices. They travelled the world promoting their book, presenting at conferences and running workshops, which created pockets of new schooling opportunities. Even better, it created a new awareness. The new self-learning paradigm emerged with people who were creative, curious, self-motivated, self-directed, and even wanted to do self-care and have a higher purpose, instead of letting other people dictate and control their lives. However, most people were not utilizing their innate abilities due to the Industrial Education mindset. So, Jeannette coined education’s missing piece “self-learning”.

Jeannette’s work touched a variety of personalities all over the world—parents, grandparents, students, educators, business people, ministers, sports coaches, lawyers, engineers, librarians, medical people, musicians, and more! Whether personally, professionally, or organizationally, ordinary people became hungry to make a difference in the world, with a higher purpose to create deeper meaning in their lives.

From SAAB’s Aerospace Industry in Sweden to the Universidade do Ingles, in Brazil’s Sao Caetano do Sul, to Calgary, Alberta’s profound Master’s Academy, and then to the southernmost city of Shenzhen, China, with afterschool programs and summer camps, to New Zealand’s Invercargill enticing politicians and educators to change the face of education—almost as much as Gällivare, Sweden, Helsinki, Finland, and Puebla, Mexico’s impact to look more toward a holistic kind of education, instead of obsession with test taking and drill-kill instruction from the industrial age. It all paved the way for the schools of tomorrow.

Or maybe it paved the way to the no-schools of tomorrow, with exemplary teachers like Heather Martinson who believes that a child’s education needs to “complement the ways children like to learn–indeed, the way their brains like to learn through interesting, powerful, and exciting activities.”

Jeannette’s high-performance Learning Revolution workshops focus on helping people first to become aware of their innate self-learning abilities. Then moving them into the power of a deeper self-learning experiences. This expanded to the sequel book being created: Learning Revolution 2.0: Self-Learning. There are now four drivers shaping our world:

1) Brain and mind power
2) Intensity of information
3) Blessings of health and wellness
4) Force of new ideas.

As part of the Learning Revolution 2.0, there is a strong focus on high performance competencies and tools of deeper self-learning and thinking, which leads to the ultimate goal of elf-leadership to create your own future in an intentional way. This especially relates to utilizing the lates science, AI, steps for entrepreneurship, using music for learning and, language learning, in a more subconscious way. We do not need a chip in our brains for this. We merely have to allow ourselves to progress to a natural way, and become aware that most of learning is subconscious. The challenge is to become more conscious! It means becoming more human, rather than becoming more like a robot.

So, how do we become more human? The Learning Revolution 2.0 leads the way for that too, by deepening our self-learning abilities with habits, tools and competencies for self-learning with all of our dimensions: mental, physical, emotional, relational and spiritual. In other words, we become human when we recognize the  interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit.

The Learning Revolution International trainings empower us to build a wiser, more capable future—one led by individuals who truly walk their talk. I call it self-leadership. Not telling others what to do, but encouraging people to think more profoundly and initiate a more conscious and deeper self-learning stance while creating their futures together with others. Choice is vital for self-learners.
The company’s vision is to transform how the world learns, thinks, and leads—cultivating a globally connected community of deep-thinking, self-directed learners.