Janine Mathó: Become the CEO of your energy

How many of us are chasing a version of success that was never really ours to begin with?

My guest is Janine Mathó, author of Live Your Opus and executive coach to ambitious leaders. After navigating burn-out and the loss of her mother, she went on a multi-year quest to answer one question: how can ambitious people achieve healthy, meaningful success without losing themselves along the way?

We explore what it really takes to sustain high performance over time, why energy is the architecture of how you show up as a leader, and why the answer isn’t to lower your ambition but to raise your capacity to meet it. If you want to lead at your best without burning out, this conversation will give you a new way to think about your life, your energy and what high performance really requires.

You’ll hear about:

• Treating your life as your greatest work
• Energy as your earliest signal of misalignment
• Burn-out forcing a complete redefinition of success
• Inherited success stories blocking real change
• Why energy is the architecture of performance
• Starting the conversation in hard-edged cultures
• Overcoming fear of being seen as weak
• Diagnostic questions every leader should ask themselves
• Best-day habits and micro practices
• Why upgrading yourself beats just upskilling

More about Janine

Janine Mathó is a former Harvard and Pearson executive and a trusted advisor to senior leaders running large, complex institutions. Her work focuses on strengthening the leadership capacity required to sustain high performance in today’s high-pressure environment.

Over a 25-year career spanning corporate, non-profit, and academic sectors, she has helped organisations navigate transformation at scale, shaped global strategy on the future of learning and work, and raised more than $30 million for learning innovation. She received a Massachusetts Congressional Award for her service to education.

Her focal areas include sustainable high performance, leadership capacity under pressure, aligning ambition with human capacity, and decision-making in complex systems. She is the author of Live Your Opus (Amplify, 2026).

• Janine’s profile
• The book: Live Your Opus: Reclaim Your Energy, Redefine Succes, and Create a Life That Truly Matters
• The newsletter: Live Your Opus
• Janine’s website