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some friends. “I never thought about being a teacher,
but maybe I could start thinking about a curriculum,”
she recounts. “One of the things I hit on was I taught
both my kids to read by the age of two. I thought, ‘I may
have something, here.’”
Once again, that “something” had to wait as Dhillon,
in order to pay the bills, became a corporate recruiter
at a company that placed accountants and CFOs. “I
would get these amazing résumés and when I would
call them in for an interview, they were nothing like
what the résumés reflected,” she remembers. “I no-
ticed that a lot of people lacked confidence, the ability
to interview or communicate. I thought, ‘Maybe if we
had all taken public speaking classes when we were
little, it would have been helpful.’”
Now remarried and more financially secure, Dhillon
says that one day she simply decided that she couldn’t
remain in the corporate world any longer and was final-
ly ready to launch her own business. “So we sat down
at the dining room table with our kids and came up
with this idea named ‘Genius Kids,’” she says. “The
idea of daycare was not even in my head; I actually
wanted to teach science and public speaking and how
to give presentations, because science is taught too
much later on in the schools here, compared to Eng-
land, and public speaking is not taught in schools, at
all. We started with a summer camp with two kids, just
to incorporate science and critical thinking, and public
speaking.
Within a few months, Dhillon had launched her first
preschool, in Fremont, California, and began develop-
ing her own learning programs, incorporating speech
and public speaking into every aspect of learning. The
