i9group

I9group is present in large teaching networks of southeastern and northeastern Brazil, such as PUC-RJ CAP, Anglo-Americano and Rede Franciscana de Ensino.
Our actions are based on Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory. In the 80’s, a team of researchers led by Howard Gardner, a renowned and award-winning psychologist, Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University and Neurology at Boston University, created the Multiple Intelligences theory. One of its statements is that a child who is better at mathematics is not necessarily smarter than another one who may have developed higher skills related to other types of intelligence.

The name of our company is not only a reference to continuous innovation, which is one of our core goals, but was also inspired in such theory. Letter “i” is the ninth letter of the alphabet and number 9 is the ninth numeral and they both refer to the nine kinds of intelligence addressed by such theory.

i9group was conceived and developed in 2013 and was founded in 2014, after an intensive benchmarking process, international research and innovative development carried out by a multidisciplinary team led by Raquel Suassuna and Fabio Toledo. Both co-founders have a wide experience in the fields of Teaching and New Technologies. Fabio Toledo has created the concept of Neural Education and is one of the world’s leading executive experts in the Internet of Things (IoT). He is a professor a Post-graduation professor, writer, broadcaster and speaker. He is an executive with solid international experience, has managed complex RD&I projects in Brazil and Europe and is the author of many motivational and technical books published in Brazil and abroad in the fields of education, new IoT technologies and entrepreneurship. Toledo broadcasts voluntarily a weekly radio column named “Success requires Attitude” in several Brazilian radio stations.

I9group is based on the concept of Neural Education. He advocates educational systems that continually reinvent and improve their methods, becoming increasingly effective, as they learn from the multi-sensorial stimuli arising from reality, from the trends of the modern world, as well as from its stakeholders, with which they are connected, just as neurons do in our sensory system during synapses. It therefore reflects the need to implement a continuous Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) cycle that addresses both intra and inter-institutional aspects.

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