{"id":23685,"date":"2025-12-01T12:33:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=23685"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:18:49","slug":"udms-emerging-leaders-program-to-host-leadership-slam-dec-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2025\/12\/01\/udms-emerging-leaders-program-to-host-leadership-slam-dec-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UDM&#8217;s Emerging Leaders Program to host Leadership Slam, Dec. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Mercy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/mission-vision\/lead-serve\/emerging-leaders.php\">Emerging Leaders Program<\/a> will host a Leadership Slam on <strong>Tuesday, Dec. 2,<\/strong> with two alumni who will share how their education, resilience and vision have shaped success.<\/p>\n<p>This is a unique opportunity for students to gain valuable insights and be inspired to take bold steps on their own leadership journeys. All are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Slam 1 will take place from <strong>2:30-3:45 p.m.<\/strong> with Slam 2 to follow at <strong>4:30-5:45 p.m.<\/strong>, both in the <strong>Health Professions Facility, Room 124<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Both alumni will be speaking in Slam 1 &amp; Slam 2.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet o<\/strong><strong>ur speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Angelo Vitale, <\/strong><em>General Counsel, Rocket Companies (Retired): <\/em>Vitale provided strategic business and legal guidance throughout his career, serving as the first CEO of Rocket Central and EVP\/general counsel of Rocket Mortgage, where he specialized in leasing, litigation and regulatory compliance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Birney, <\/strong><em>CMO, I Natural Way:\u00a0<\/em>Birney drives business growth with advanced marketing tech, leveraging his experience as a former Google Growth Strategist and an ML Champion to apply teamwork and strategy for success.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about this event, please contact Program Director Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:zimmerka@udmercy.edu\">zimmerka@udmercy.edu<\/a>\u00a0or 586-873-1743.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23684\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/11\/Leadship-slam-images.jpg?resize=993%2C377&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Headshots of Angelo Vitale and Michael Birney\" width=\"993\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/11\/Leadship-slam-images.jpg?resize=300%2C114&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/11\/Leadship-slam-images.jpg?w=659&amp;ssl=1 659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Detroit Mercy&#8217;s Emerging Leaders Program for an event featuring two accomplished alumni who will share how education, resilience and vision shaped their careers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":23684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[6931,6703,385,7185,264,530,7046],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/11\/Leadship-slam-images.jpg?fit=659%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6a1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23685"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23801,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23685\/revisions\/23801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}