Angelo C. Maduli, Ph.D. has spent over two decades doing what most educators only write about: dismantling what no longer serves learners and constructing what genuinely does. Across universities, curriculum bodies, and executive leadership roles in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, he has shaped teacher excellence, redesigned academic programs, and led institutional reform — not as theory, but as lived practice.

His career spans the full arc of educational life: from classroom teaching and faculty development to curriculum design and accreditation, to academic leadership at the highest levels of institutional governance. He has worked in demanding contexts that required both scholarly rigor and on-the-ground courage — in systems where education had quietly drifted from its purpose, and where restoring that purpose required someone willing to say so. He coins his own professional identity for a reason. As a Learnsmith, he does not merely study educational transformation — he forges it: the patient, skilled work of reshaping systems into purposeful ones, one institution, one curriculum, one educator at a time.

Unlearn to Lead is his most urgent argument yet. It is the book that emerges when a career's worth of conviction and hard-won insight finally demands to be said plainly: that the future of education begins not with what we add, but with what we are finally brave enough to let go of. Angelo C. Maduli lives and works in the Philippines, where he continues to forge the future of learning.