R. Mateo Magdaleno is an author and Chief Education Officer for the IDQ Group Inc., providing innovative education strategies to organizations. Magdaleno is also the Founder and Chairman of The Magdaleno Leadership Institute, a non-profit organization devoted to building student servant leaders. He also serves on the U.S. Congressional Award National Board of Directors, who present Congress’s highest award for youth. In addition to managing his own business and philanthropic work, Magdaleno serves as the caregiver of his elderly mother, Maria, and is in the process of adopting his older sister, Sylvia Magdaleno, who is gifted with down syndrome.