Helping people and the institutions that shape them thrive in a changing world.

Welcome. I’m Janine Mathó.

I help leaders and organizations understand what a changing world asks of people and rethink how we prepare and develop them to thrive.

Where I’ve been

Today, that question sits at the heart of my work. I founded The LifeLong Leap Project to bring together people and ideas from fields that rarely talk to each other: learning and work, health and longevity, technology, parenting, identity and meaning. We don't live these parts of our lives separately, so the Project doesn't treat them separately. Its first public expression is The LifeLong Leap Podcast, which I host.

Through my advisory work, I help leaders and organizations across education, edtech, and media with skills strategy, workforce transformation, and leadership development. As Chief Learning Officer at Dreamtime Learning Asia, I help build learning environments that develop these capabilities from the start.

I'm the author of the award-winning Live Your Opus (Amplify, 2026) and co-author, with Lina Ashar, of Raising Humans for a Future That's Already Arrived (HarperCollins India, forthcoming 2027), which explores how we develop these capabilities from childhood.

I'm a first-generation Cuban-American, born and raised in New Jersey. I've lived in three countries and led work on four continents. I live in Provence with my two Labradors, and my husband and I split our time between France, London and Boston, where we raised our three grown children.

For more than 25 years, I've worked alongside senior leaders while building and leading initiatives focused on how people learn, develop, and prepare for what comes next. At Harvard, I held leadership roles across the Law School, Medical School, and Graduate School of Education before co-founding the Center for Education Policy Research. There, I also co-founded the Strategic Data Project, initially funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I later served as Chief of Policy & Practice for a statewide education nonprofit, building leadership and capacity across more than 70 schools.

Most recently, as Vice President of Global Thought Leadership at Pearson, I created and led the company's global thought leadership function on the future of learning and work. I also co-led a cross-industry partnership of FTSE 100 CHROs focused on workforce capability, skills, and the impact of AI on jobs and learning.

Why it’s personal

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, just 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.

My work today

Beyond work

A little more about me…I’m a fifty-something proud mother of three who has:

  • Lived and worked in three countries, leading global strategy and business.

  • Supported thousands of people—from early-career professionals to senior executives—in their growth and development.

  • Served twice in the nonprofit C-Suite.

  • Raised more than $30M for learning innovation in the U.S.

  • Spoken on the TEDx stage and at leading institutions in the US and the UK.

  • Founded a global nonprofit advancing women’s careers.

  • Received a Massachusetts Congressional Award for Service in Education

Still, what matters most to me is the change I see in people when they begin to function differently—they’re steadier, clearer, and much more themselves.

Through all of life’s twists and turns, I’m proud to be standing grounded and steady, and still very much who I’ve always been.

Thank you for being here.

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