I help people and organizations develop what they need to thrive in a world that’s already changed.
I’m building a global movement around a simple question: What do we need to thrive in this changing world, and what needs to change so we can?
Just two weeks after its launch, The LifeLong Leap Podcast is charting internationally on Apple Podcasts, reaching #31 in Self-Improvement in Portugal.
AWARD-WINNING BOOK
Live Your Opus
Reclaim Your Energy, Redefine Success, and Create a Life That Truly Matters
“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
About Janine
I help leaders and organizations understand what a changing world asks of people, and rethink how we prepare and develop them to thrive.
For more than 25 years, I've built and led initiatives on how people learn, develop, and prepare for what comes next. I was a founding director of Harvard's Center for Education Policy Research, served in the nonprofit
C-suite, and most recently was Vice President of Global Thought Leadership at Pearson. Along the way, I raised more than $30 million for education innovation.
Over time, that work led me to a larger question: What do we need to thrive in this changing world, and what needs to change so we can?
That question is also personal. While pioneering Pearson's global work on the future of learning and work, I burned out, four weeks after my mother died in a car accident. Through that experience, I realized we spend a great deal of time trying to understand how the world is changing, and far less understanding what those changes ask of us, as individuals and as a society.
At Pearson, I was focused on the skills people would need to be employable in the future. Now I see that a greater challenge is figuring out what capabilities people need to thrive.
Today, that question sits at the heart of my speaking, advisory work, and The LifeLong Leap Project, which I founded in September, 2026. As Chief Learning Officer at Dreamtime Learning Asia, I also help build learning environments that develop these capabilities from the start.
I'm a TEDx speaker, author of the award-winning Live Your Opus (Amplify, 2026), co-author of Raising Humans for a Future That's Already Arrived (HarperCollins India, forthcoming 2027), and creator and host of The LifeLong Leap 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.
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