About Blast Learning
One goal: equip every student
to be a genius at learning.
When the pandemic hit in 2020, Bruce Lewolt watched students struggle in ways he’d never seen — including the students he loved most: his own grandkids. They couldn’t focus. They couldn’t study on their own. And when schools reopened, it didn’t get better: reading scores fell to their lowest level in 30 years, and math scores to levels not seen since 2005.
Bruce had spent 25 years building learning technology — systems licensed by IBM and McGraw Hill, used by more than 250,000 students, protected by multiple patents. He’d already proven what the right methods can do: high school students four years below grade level reached grade level in eight months, at four hours a week. The science worked.
And those results proved something bigger: being a genius at learning isn’t something you’re born with. It’s a set of skills — how to listen, how to study, how to take a test, how to focus — and every one of them can be taught. The students who look gifted have simply mastered those skills earlier. Any student can.
So in late 2020 he founded Blast Learning — not as a startup exercise, but as a personal mission: put those skills, and the technology that automates them, in every student’s hands. He funded the entire platform himself from prior licensing revenue — no outside investors, nobody to answer to but the families using it. And the version you’re using today is the version his grandkids use.
The team
The Scientists Behind the System
Blast isn’t built by marketers. It’s built by people who’ve spent their careers studying how the human brain learns, endures, and excels.
The Scientists Behind the System
Blast isn't built by marketers. It's built by people who've spent their careers studying how the human brain learns, endures, and excels.
Bruce Lewolt
Founder & CEO
"Every student should be able to walk into any class, face any challenge, and know exactly how to succeed — not because someone is holding their hand, but because they've been trained to learn on their own. That's what Blast builds."
Pioneer in automated learning systems with 25+ years of experience. Built learning technology licensed by IBM and McGraw Hill, used by over 250,000 students. Multiple patents in learning science. Developer of Learning Power Training, proven with 100,000+ students. Author of Getting A's. Self-funded the entire Blast platform from prior licensing revenue.
Dr. Jon Finn
Mind Coach Architect
"Most self-help and study skills training is outdated. Our approach uses cutting-edge neuroscience to build the habits that actually work. We don't just give information — we create students who can fine-tune their brain for success."
Founder of the award-winning Tougher Minds consultancy and one of the UK's leading experts on habit formation, resilience, and performance psychology. Author of The Habit Mechanic. Co-developed Blast's Mind Power Training — the executive-function system behind focus, emotional regulation, and the habits that beat procrastination. His work has been used by Premier League football clubs, the NHS, and Fortune 500 companies.
Jerome Kagan, Ph.D.
Founding Scientific Advisor · Harvard (1929–2021)
One of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century, whose pioneering research at Harvard revolutionized our understanding of human temperament — how innate differences shape the way people learn, respond to stress, and build resilience.
Professor Kagan provided critical guidance on adapting Blast to individual student temperaments — ensuring that how Blast teaches, motivates, and supports each student is calibrated to how their specific brain works, never one-size-fits-all. His insights remain embedded in how Blast personalizes learning for every student.
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