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Hi, I am Angelo C. Maduli — an educator, a strategist, and a Learnsmith: someone who does not merely study learning systems but actively forges them into something stronger, more honest, and more human.

Over more than twenty years, I have worked across the Philippines, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia — leading teacher formation and digital learning innovation as Head of Teaching and Educational Development at Taylor's University, designing K-12 curricula with R.E.A.L Education Group, and institutionalizing learner-driven frameworks at Manila Central University. My work has always lived at the intersection of vision and execution, philosophy and practice.

Across every institution I have served, one conviction has remained constant: that before we can transform how others learn, we must first transform how we think about learning and teaching. That conviction drove my work with faculty members at Taylor's University, where I built the foundations for a 21st-century learning and teaching competency framework — and it continues to drive everything I do today.

I hold a Doctor of Philosophy in School Management, earned Summa Cum Laude, but my truest education has come from the schools, leaders, and learners I have had the privilege of serving.

My forthcoming book, Unlearn to Lead, distills twenty years of hard-won insight into a seven-pillar framework for transformative education — a call not just to reform schools, but to rethink what learning is for.

Whether you are here for consulting, speaking, or the book — welcome to the forge.

Proven Expertise

  • High Level Consultancy Projects (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, Philippines)

  • Executive Vice President of an International College

  • Vice President for Academic Affairs of a University

  • Vice President, Group Academic & Strategic Communication and Marketing

  • Head, Group Academic

  • Head, Teaching and Educational Development

  • Visiting Senior Lecturer

  • Executive Director, Center for Professional Studies

  • Dean, Graduate School of Business and Management

  • Resource Speaker, Trainer, and Researcher

Exemplary Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Management major in School Management

  • Master's in Business Administration

  • Bachelor of Science in Psychology

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Impact

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James

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A snapshot of Angelo collaborating with international colleagues during a strategic planning session.

Modern Teaching Competencies

Mastery Learning Approaches

Assessment for Learning in Action

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Chef preparing food in a busy kitchen
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Diverse group of people in a modern office meeting.
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Woman presents to colleagues at a whiteboard meeting.

Strategic Leadership and Management

Organizational Development

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people throwing hats on air
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A room filled with lots of books and plants

Learning Environment Design

Strategic Enrollment Management

The vast majority of our wisdom does not emerge from sterile classrooms, but from the messy, beautiful “doing” of life itself and the relationships we cultivate along the way. It is through shared experience, dialogue, and collective problem solving that learning becomes social, humane, and deeply relevant.

Innovative Learning Experiences