College Possible
Peter Kanda, MBA, currently serves as a Navigate Coach at College Possible, focusing on supporting low-income students through college admission and success initiatives. As CEO and Fractional Sales and Business Development consultant at Hapa Consulting since 2022, Peter partners with new entrepreneurs to establish robust Sales, Marketing, and Financial systems. Previous roles include Personal Development Coach at Menttium and Promise Fellow with the Minnesota Alliance With Youth, emphasizing equitable educational opportunities for underserved youth. Most notably, Peter spent several years at QualiTech, advancing through various leadership positions in the Food Solutions Division, where significant revenue growth and market innovations were achieved. Peter's extensive career also includes strategic roles at General Mills and Mars, reflecting strong capabilities in sales management, customer relationship building, and trade marketing. Peter holds a Bachelor's Degree in Communications from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas.
College Possible
At College Possible, we envision a day when a student’s future is determined solely by their talent, motivation and effort. As one of the largest and most successful college access and success programs in the country, since 2000 College Possible has helped more than 80,000 students from under-represented communities get into and through college through an intensive curriculum of coaching and support. Our pioneering model matches students with a near-peer coach and an evidence-based curriculum designed to help students overcome the most common barriers to getting into college and completing their degree – all at no cost to students or their families. Nationwide, College Possible students are three times more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree within six years than their peers from similar backgrounds. Headquartered in Saint Paul, MN, College Possible operates: regional sites in Chicago, IL; Milwaukee, WI; Omaha, NE; Philadelphia, PA; Portland, OR; and Seattle, WA; College Forward in Austin, TX; and Catalyze partnerships in California, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee. Learn more at CollegePossible.org.