Social Impact Heroes: Why & How Harley Frankel of College Match Is Helping To Change Our World

I would define Leadership as the ability to set important goals, develop a strategy to achieve those goals, hire strong people, and trust them to find a detailed way to reach those goals.

As part of my series about “individuals and organizations making an important social impact”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Harley Frankel, the founder of College Match.

Harley has dedicated his career to improving education. He led the National Head Start program, was heavily involved in the federal student financial aid program, was senior executive for the Children’s Defense Fund, and helped select the first secretary of education while a senior White House aide in the Carter Administration. He was the first in his family to attend college. Frankel has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Thank you so much for doing this with us! Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path?

Before moving to Santa Monica, I had spent most of my career focused on equal educational opportunities for low-income kids. I was the National Director of the Head Start program, a lobbyist…