Former Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Director General Isidro Lapeña.

Secretary Isidro Lapeña considers the number of TESDA's graduates and certified workers as the measure of the agency's success. Part of the mandate given him by the president was to help Filipinos achieve a more comfortable life. "This is what the president wants to see, our people having a comfortable life... and TESDA plays a role in that," he says