Khoo is the Executive chairman and Chief Master Trainer of Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group, one of Asia's largest private educational institutions, which runs educational seminars for over 80,000 people annually in 7 countries. His business interests include advertising, corporate training and professional investing.
Background
In 2008, Khoo was ranked among the top 25 richest Singaporeans under age 40 by The Executive magazine. In the same year, he was conferred the NUS Business School Eminent Business Alumni Award.
Khoo is the director of seven other private companies. He was also a director of the Singapore Health Promotion Board (HPB) from 2009 to 2010. He is a member of the Singapore Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization,whose membership is available only to business owners below age 50, who run businesses with a minimum annual turnover of US$9 million.
Education
After being expelled from St Stephen's Primary School for misbehavior and poor academic results at the age of eight, he attended a government school, Ping Yi Secondary School, where he was able to pass only five out of eight academic subjects.
As a child, Adam Khoo was a lazy fellow with poor social skills. He was totally uninterested in learning, did not enjoy reading anything but comics, and was addicted to arcade games and TV programs.
At the age of 13 came the turning point in his life, when his parents enrolled him for a five-day residential program at Ladyhill Hotel called Super-Teen Camp. At the camp, his talent was spotted by Dr. Ernest Wong, founder, principal consultant and master teacher of Ernesco, the Centre for Motivational Language Learning.
With the help of Dr. Wong's innovative learning technology known as neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) as well as whole-brain learning, within three months of the program, he made his way among the top 18 students in his secondary school.
Within a year, he went on to rank among the top 10 in Ping Yi Secondary and later became the first student from his school to qualify for Victoria Junior College.
At the age of 16, he began investing most of his time to know about the training sessions in NLP in the United States. Gradually, he became a freelance motivational trainer and started conducting sessions in schools to encourage dull students.
In 1987, when Khoo was 13, his parents enrolled their "under-achiever" son for a five-day residential program at Ladyhill Hotel called Super-Teen Camp. The man responsible for spotting Khoo's "gifted talent" in Super-Teen was Dr. Ernest Wong, founder, principal consultant and master teacher of Ernesco, the Centre for Motivational Language Learning based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (the Super-Teen Camp is now under Learning Mastery Pte. Ltd.) Dr. Wong's teaching tools incorporated and adapted an American-developed learning technology called neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), as well as whole-brain learning.This was the beginning of Khoo's interest and journey in mastering motivational techniques, which formed the foundation of many of his books and seminars.
Within three months of the program, Khoo climbed to among the top 18 in his secondary school. He went on to rank among the top 10 in Ping Yi Secondary within a year, topped his school in the GCE 'O' Level examinations with the lowest scoring aggregate, and was the first in Ping Yi Secondary to qualify for the then-top junior college in Singapore, Victoria Junior College.At Victoria Junior College, he was president of the Economics Society and scored three A's for his GCE 'A' Level examinations.He entered the business administration faculty at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and continued his notable academic achievements by making it to the dean's list every year,ranked among the top 1 percent of academic achievers and became a pioneer in the university's Talent Development Programme (TDP), the tertiary equivalent of the gifted education programme for secondary schools. He graduated with an honours degree in business administration from NUS.
Career
At the age of 21, Adam Khoo completed National Service in the Republic of Singapore Air Force. After that, he collaborated with his three National University of Singapore (NUS) friends and co-founded an event management company, Creatsoul Entertainment. The company organized various fun activities for its clients and was later re-registered as Event Gurus Pte Ltd.
Later, he got enrolled in the business administration faculty at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he was placed among the top 1 percent of academic achievers. In 1998, he completed his graduation with an honors degree in business administration.
At the age of 24, after obtaining his licence in NLP in Washington, he became a trainer at SuperTeen, conducting courses for organizations including the Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC), Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP), and the Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH) in Jakarta.
Alongside, he also started coaching top insurance agents and marketing managers on methods to boost sales. Subsequently, his father gave him the responsibility to run their own advertising agency, Adcom.
He currently serves as the CEO & Managing Director of Adcom (S) Pte Ltd, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Event Gurus Pte Ltd, and the Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group Pte Ltd.
Adam Khoo has also authored 11 books including the best-seller ‘I Am Gifted, So Are You!’ and ‘Master your Mind, Design your Destiny’. He served as the co-author of ‘How to Multiply your Child's Intelligence’ and ‘Clueless in Starting a Business’.
His other literary works include ‘Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires’, ‘Secrets of Millionaire Investors’ and ‘Nurturing the Winner and Genius In Your Child’.
Religion
"We are All Born With Unique Gifts for A Specific Purpose…"
Views
We all know about the power of positive thinking but did you know how truly powerful your thoughts can be. Your thoughts do not just affect you psychologically. Your thoughts can in fact alter your body’s biochemistry (creating diseases or good health) and manifest what you think about in reality. Every thought you have is a quantum of energy that vibrates at a particular frequency. Since all matter is made up of energy at the subatomic level, every thought can shape matter and reality.
So, if you want to change your life for the better, start changing your thoughts! Imagine the affect that your everyday thoughts have on your emotions and health, on your children, on your customers, on your colleagues and on your family as a whole.
Personality
"The Bigger The Problems You Can Solve, The More Successful You Will Be"
"There is No Talent Without Hardwork"
Connections
Spouse Sally Khoo-Ong (m. 2000)
Children Kelly Khoo (born 2004)
Samantha Khoo (born 2005)
Parents
Vince Khoo (1944–present)
Betty L. Khoo-Kingsley
(1945–present)