I’m a future of learning expert
who helps people and organizations
develop the capabilities needed
for a world that has already changed.
Pre-order Live Your Opus to reclaim your energy,
think clearly, and build a way of living and working
that you can sustain.
“If you're a high achiever who hustled your way to success
but lost yourself along the way, this book delivers.” — Mel Robbins,
New York Times bestselling author of The Let Them Theory
and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast
About Janine
I’m a future of learning expert focused on how we educate and develop people to live, perform, and adapt well in a world that has already changed. Through advisory work and writing, I translate shifts in technology, policy, and work into how skills and capabilities are built in practice.
Over more than 25 years, I’ve worked at the highest levels of education and learning, including as an executive at Harvard and Pearson, a founding director at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, and a nonprofit C-suite leader. I’ve raised over $30 million for education innovation and led work across the US, UK, and globally. This work gave me a systems-level understanding of how people are developed—and where those systems are no longer keeping pace with reality.
Like many people operating at a high level, I followed the traditional path: work hard, take on more, keep going. That approach worked—until it didn’t. Burnout, alongside the sudden loss of my mother, brought everything to a halt.
That experience made something clear: there is a growing mismatch between how people are developed and what is actually required of them. We are still preparing people for conditions that no longer exist.
It shows up in depletion and chronic stress, loss of meaning and direction, rising anxiety across generations, a growing sense of disconnection, and a widening gap between achievement and well-being.
Today, my work focuses on how we develop the capabilities people need to function well—the energy, clarity, and steadiness required to sustain performance over time. I created the Opus Way as a practical framework for this work, one that helps people make more intentional choices and build a way of living and working that can hold as their lives evolve.
I am the author of Live Your Opus (Amplify, February 2026), which introduces this work, and co-author of Raising Humans for a World That’s Already Arrived (forthcoming with Lina Ashar, HarperCollins, November 2026), which explores how we develop these capabilities from the start.
About Live Your Opus
Live Your Opus is a 12-week guided reset for ambitious people who want to feel energized, aligned, and deeply connected to what matters most. It reframes overwork, chronic stress, and burnout as a response to operating in a world that’s fundamentally changed. Grounded in the Opus Way, it provides a structured approach to reclaiming your energy, clarifying what matters, and making more intentional choices. This is not a quick fix. It’s a practical, deeply human process for creating a life that feels even better on the inside than it looks on the outside—and that can hold you as you grow.
“If you’re a high achiever who hustled your way to success but lost yourself along the way, this book delivers. Janine Mathó offers a grounded, practical path to align your ambition with what matters most to you.”
— Mel Robbins, New York Times bestselling author
of The Let Them Theory and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast
Praise for Live Your Opus
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"Live Your Opus is a wake-up call for high achievers who are ready to stop running on empty and start living on purpose. If you’ve been chasing success, always wondering when 'enough' would finally hit—this is your essential guide."
Dorie Clark, executive education faculty at Columbia Business School and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Game
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“So many of us reach a moment, quiet and often hidden, when success begins to feel strangely hollow and the life we’ve worked so hard to build no longer fits. In Live Your Opus, Janine Mathó meets that moment with uncommon grace. This is not a book of easy answers, but a brave and generous companion for the inner work of returning to oneself. With clarity and care, Mathó helps us remember something essential, something we may have known once but lost track of along the way. That vitality, meaning, and contribution are not separate paths, but one path walked in alignment with the truth of who we are.”
Stephen Cope, author of The Great Work of Your Life
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“Janine holds what most coaches can’t: your ambition, your doubt, your vision—and helps you turn it all into clarity and power. I watched her carry this work from the shadows into the world. In Live Your Opus, she offers that same rare gift to every ambitious person: a path back to self-trust, energy, and a kind of success that doesn’t cost you what matters most. More than just wisdom, Janine offers high achievers the clarity they spend years chasing, delivered with heart, strength, and truth.”
Nimrod Mashiah, 3x World Medalist, Olympic Athlete & Elite Performance Strategist
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“In a world wired for fear and addicted to certainty, Live Your Opus is a powerful invitation to reclaim mastery over your own mind and design a life led by purpose. Janine doesn’t just ask us to dream—she shows us how to disarm the survival-driven wiring that keeps us small so that we can live our dreams. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to live their highest potential and shape a future where dreams aren’t just personal aspirations—they’re the responsibility we carry to model what’s possible for the next generation.”
Lina Ashar, Founder & CEO, Dreamtime Learning
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“A playbook for presence and purpose - Mathó lifts the veil on burnout, energy, and what really matters. Opus is a toolbox to help anyone wanting to live their best life.”
Professor Kerensa Jennings, Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA)
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“The use of musical metaphors, such as composition and opus, is a brilliant and original way to draw the reader into what becomes a true odyssey of self-discovery and creation. Part One offers a thoughtful approach to the vital act of taking charge of our minds, our choices, and the small details of our daily lives. Part Two provides a masterful blend of practical exercises, provocative insights, and moving stories of real people who have transformed their lives. It inspires the reader to begin their own journey, one small, mindful step at a time. This is the kind of book that, if it were required reading in every high school around the world, would change how we define success and how we live in pursuit of it.”
Claire Harbour, Trusted Advisor to C-Suite Leaders and Founders, Author and Disruptor
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“If you’re a high achiever who hustled your way to success but lost yourself along the way, this book delivers. Janine Mathó offers a grounded, practical path to align your ambition with what matters most to you.”
Mel Robbins, New York Times bestselling author of The Let Them Theory and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast
My work is grounded in a simple idea:
People should be able to live and perform well in the world we’re actually living in.
That requires a different approach to how we develop people—one that builds the clarity, energy, and capacity to function well over time, not just achieve in the short term.
If you’re feeling the pressure of modern life and want a way to live and perform well without losing yourself—this work is for you.
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