Paige MacLean is a lecturer at the School of Management and a fellow at SOM’s Program on Social Enterprise, Innovation and Impact. She teaches a course each fall on high-impact approaches to philanthropy. Drawing on a wide network of philanthropists, foundation leaders and philanthropic advisors, the course brings leaders in the field to the classroom to discuss and debate timely issues and case studies. Paige also serves as the faculty advisor to the school’s Nonprofit Board Fellows and the Student Impact Consulting Club.
Paige is also an advisor to individuals and families who are looking to develop an approach to philanthropy that is both meaningful to them and creates significant impact. Leveraging two decades of experience in organizational leadership, strategy consulting, and fundraising, Paige supports clients in building their knowledge of the social sector. She facilitates meaningful connections with other philanthropists and with the powerful, impact-driven initiatives and leaders who are working to address today’s most challenging problems.
From 2010 - 2021, Paige served as the founder and executive director of AF Accelerate, a division of the Achievement First charter school network. In this role she was responsible for launching, designing and scaling Achievement First’s “open source” strategy to support traditional districts and charter schools in adapting and adopting the network’s instructional practices and strategies. Over 11 years, Paige grew AF Accelerate from a pilot project to an independent division that supported over 40,000 students across the country annually, and ultimately spun off to become Leap Educational Consulting. Prior to joining Achievement First, Paige spent 8 years at Wellspring Consulting, a nonprofit strategy consulting firm, and the Boston Consulting Group.
Paige is a board member of the Yale School of Management Alumni Advisory Board and a member of the evaluation panel for the 2023 Yield Giving (Mackenzie Scott) open call for proposals managed by Lever for Change. She is the past-chair of the board of All Our Kin, a national organization that trains and supports high-quality, sustainable, family child care programs, and a partner at Connecticut Social Venture Partners.
Paige received her MBA from the Yale School of Management and her BA from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs with a certificate in Afro-American Studies. After graduating from Princeton, Paige was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach in the former East Germany, shortly after German reunification.
MBA, Yale School of Management, 1998
AB, Princeton University, 1993
