Guaranteed 4.0 started as a business accidentally. While Donna O. Johnson was working on her Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Texas-Austin, she was elected as the national chairperson of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), with responsibility of a $3 million budget and a staff in Washington, DC. Donna O. was in full-time, senior-level classes and working for a dean in the engineering school, who feared that the work load would be too much.

The dean told Donna O. that she needed a plan – and Donna O. went to work immediately on that plan. In true engineer fashion, she invented a series of successful techniques to make learning easier. She summarized her reading, rewrote her notes, and organized her homework, techniques that later became the framework of the Guaranteed 4.0 Learning System.

That semester, Donna O. received all A’s as a senior majoring in chemical engineering , kept her job, and the following summer, taught her first Guaranteed 4.0 seminar at the NSBE’s National Leadership Conference.

“After graduation, I studied learning theories and cognitive psychology and learned why the 4.0 system would work for everyone – not just me,” Donna O. says. “The average person remembers only 10 to 30 percent of what they read. We can increase reading retention to 80 to 90 percent using our advanced bullet point reading method.”

Following college, she joined Amoco Corporation (now BP) and held various engineering and management positions. She continued to present Guaranteed 4.0 seminars upon requests from across the country and volunteered significant hours at her church in her ‘spare time.’

After juggling three almost-full time jobs for many years, she made the decision to go full time with the Guaranteed 4.0 Learning System.

“When I was nine years old, I told my mother I wanted to travel, make speeches and help people,” Donna O. says. “I thought that meant being a politician, but now I know I was meant to travel, present seminars and change the world one student at a time.”

Guaranteed 4.0 Learning System addresses the learning needs of students, teachers, leaders, and corporations and has evolved into books, DVDs, and multiple series of workshops and seminars. The system includes Guaranteed 4.0 for college students and Guaranteed A+PLUS for middle school and high school students. A Quick Start Guide and additional materials are in the works along with an expansion of a line of corporate training products and seminars already being utilized.

Together with Y.C. Chen, a product of the Guaranteed 4.0 Learning System and co-author of many of its resources, Donna O. Johnson is truly changing the world one student at a time.