KLC Language Center Education Group | Sean Chia and Jacelyn Tan | Entrepreneurs empowering young learners through cutting-edge education

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 24, 2017 /PRWIRE.asia/ -- Can you ever imagine that a 5-year child can read and accurately pronounce university-level academic text? Interestingly, this has been proven possible through programmes offered by Kids Planet Education Group, which comprises Kids Planet Education Sdn Bhd and Kids Planet Language Centre Sdn Bhd. In fact, the learning model is so successful that there are even parents who are willing to drive their children a massive 200 km, all the way from Endau Rompin, just to attend the weekly class in Johor Bahru.

At the helm of this innovative education system are Sean Chia and Jacelyn Tan, a dynamic entrepreneurial couple who have creatively integrated their engineering and accountancy backgrounds into the education business. Their trail-blazing success story stems back to Jacelyn’s passion for teaching. As a teenager, she was already providing tuition to children during her free time after classes in secondary school. Even after she graduated with an accountancy degree and entered working life, her interest in teaching never waned.

When the couple got married, although life was comfortable and finances were good with both commanding high paying jobs – Sean however had to spend time and energy commuting daily to Singapore for work. They realised that they needed something more stable and contemplated on starting a business. Children’s education was a natural option, given Jacelyn’s lifelong interest in teaching.

Getting started was toughest, as Sean had to quit his job and start from scratch. It meant that they had to use up all their savings, move out from their own home to their parents’ home in order to generate rental income and sacrifice other resources to cover the rental, teachers’ salaries and other operating expenses to start their first preschool for kids in 2009. To create the right product to meet the children’s education market pain points, they saw the potential of assimilating technology into education as Sean was very interested in technology and systemic ways of creating results.

Having to juggle between cash resources, space limitations, finding the right teachers as well as designing the right teaching system and even managing both family time and work life was challenging. Despite these trials, the entrepreneurs attest that it has been a great and fruitful journey all the way.

Both Sean’s and Jacelyn’s vision for the preschool is more than just education. From expanding the preschool to a bigger premises and incorporating value-added learning techniques, the business diversified into a language centre in 2014 and there is no slowing down for this dynamic couple. There are now 2 KLC Preschools and 8 KLC Language Centres.

Their vision to make KLC Education Group a centre of excellence for child development, by teaching essential life skills and laying the foundation for future academic success. Compared to conventional education methodology, the KLC learning experience promotes creativity that utilises all the five senses, promotes personal development and inculcates proficiencies in the English, Malay and Chinese languages.

In fact, the couple is continuously exploring new ideas to create more advanced learning methods, by combining education technology, environment-aided concepts and dynamic educational systems. KLC Education Group’s track record has enjoyed significant achievements as it can customise its programmes to meet each child’s individual needs and interests.

Last year, in March 2016, the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism issued them with a franchisor licence and the future is more rosy than ever before. According to Sean, “We intend to open more preschools and language centres, not just in Johor but also nationwide within the next few years. The way we operate is different, our focus on results by improving the learning system and delivery of our training programmes ensure that we are constantly improving and staying ahead. We also intend to diversify the business, not in other industries but more towards children education products as we have the data and knowhow on this industry.”

Jacelyn added that even during family holidays, they take the effort to visit education centres in other countries to compare best practices and learn from other systems. Their children, aged 2 and 6 years old, are part of the family and work culture. The eldest, in fact, participates in the same learning programmes and provides useful feedback to Sean and Jacelyn.

Both of them complement each other. According to Jacelyn, “There is no conflict at work as Sean focuses on business strategy and growth while I concentrate on teachers’ training and children’s learning development and programmes. We respect each other’s opinions.” Sean quipped, “We have a good balance and this is important in fostering the family and work-life balance”.

Kids Planet Education Group’s success has not gone unnoticed. After receiving the Asia Honesty Enterprise Award in 2015 for his brand, in 2016, Sean was accorded the 100 Most Influential Young Entrepreneur award and this year, his hard work received two strong accolades in the form of the ASEAN-China Top Business Award as well as the legendary Golden Bull Award 2017 for SMEs.

Jacelyn encourages all budding entrepreneurs to “Go all out and never give up. Don’t say I will try my best but say I will go all out.” Sean emphasises on the importance of setting goals and remaining focused, and to be able to adapt and improve approaches to solving problems in order to achieve goals.

Together, this powerhouse couple certainly has an amazing journey ahead of them. Their dedication to making a difference in creating cutting-edge education systems for children is on the right track and the future can only be more abundant.

Contact Information:

Name: Dr. Zyro Wong
Organization: Zyro Wong Consultancy
Website: http://zyrowong.com/
Phone Number: +6019-224 9663
Email: me@zyrowong.com
Address: B-1-3A, Kuchai Exchange, Jalan Kuchai Maju 13, Off Jalan Kuchai Lama, 58200 Kuala Lumpur.