Janine is a former Harvard and Pearson executive who has worked across the systems that shape how we learn, work, and lead, in the US, UK, and globally.

Welcome to Opus Labs

Opus Labs is a studio focused on the future of learning and human development—exploring and finding solutions to how people can live and perform well in a world that has already changed.

This work starts from a simple premise: what people are being asked to handle has outpaced their preparation. This is not just a skills problem, but a learning and human development problem.

Across education, leadership, and the workplace, people are still being developed for conditions that no longer exist. It’s a mismatch between what we’re being taught and what’s required of us in today’s world.

This mismatch is showing up everywhere:

• in how children are educated,

• in how young adults enter the workforce,

• in how leaders are expected to perform,

• and in how people navigate midlife, longevity, and retirement.

And it is an important factor driving the big trends affecting the human experience, such as depletion and burnout, loss of meaning and direction, rising anxiety across generations, a growing sense of disconnection, and a widening gap between achievement and well-being.

At Opus Labs, we develop and share perspectives on what it now takes for people to function well—individually and within systems—and how those capabilities can be intentionally built.

This includes writing, speaking, and selective advisory and executive coaching engagements with leaders and organizations navigating complex change.

The focus is on rethinking how people are developed so performance is sustained, not extracted.