Founded in 2022 by Dr. Shani Robins and Kelly Mesler, GenWise is a product of two distinguished professionals filling the educational gap with their expertise and backgrounds.

Kelly and Shani met in 2018 and quickly found common ground discussing Kelly’s undergraduate work bringing mindfulness and social skill programs to elementary schools and Shani’s research and pilot program teaching wisdom curriculum resulting in significant benefits. Their focus became especially heightened to work together during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the younger generation faced unprecedented challenges impacting their education and development. Shani’s tenure as a psychologist and professor and Kelly’s entrepreneurial background working in both the education and corporate sector pairs perfectly to manage GenWise.