{"id":26332,"date":"2026-08-20T09:01:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=26332"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:39:15","slug":"cba-business-leadership-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/08\/20\/cba-business-leadership-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Four alumni to be honored with Business Leadership Awards, Oct. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26354\" style=\"width: 1900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26354\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/business-leadership-awards-2026.png?resize=993%2C233&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"headshots of the 2026 Business Leadership Award recipients. From left: Winona Bynum &apos;24, Robert J. Fisher &apos;83, Isaiah \u201cIke\u201d McKinnon \u201975, \u201978, and Paul Formosa &apos;21, &apos;22.\" width=\"993\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/business-leadership-awards-2026.png?w=1900&amp;ssl=1 1900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/business-leadership-awards-2026.png?resize=300%2C70&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/business-leadership-awards-2026.png?resize=1024%2C240&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/business-leadership-awards-2026.png?resize=768%2C180&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/business-leadership-awards-2026.png?resize=1536%2C360&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/08\/business-leadership-awards-2026.png?resize=1204%2C282&amp;ssl=1 1204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Winona Bynum &#8217;24, the Most Rev. Robert J. Fisher &#8217;83, Isaiah \u201cIke\u201d McKinnon \u201975, \u201978 and Paul Formosa &#8217;21, &#8217;22.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Four College of Business Administration alumni will be recognized during the annual Business Leadership Awards on <strong>Sunday, Oct. 18<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration honors leaders who demonstrate professional success, outstanding contributions to society and the embodiment of University of Detroit Mercy&#8217;s Jesuit and Mercy values.<\/p>\n<p>The event, sponsored by Alliance Catholic Credit Union, will begin at 10 a.m. with Mass in the St. Ignatius Chapel, before moving to the Detroit Golf Club at 11:15 a.m. for brunch and the award ceremony. Tickets are $65 per person.<\/p>\n<h6>Lifetime Achievement Award:<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Most Rev. Robert J. Fisher &#8217;83<\/strong>, auxiliary Bishop of Detroit<\/li>\n<li><strong>Winona Bynum &#8217;24<\/strong>, program manager of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>Rising Star Award:<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Paul Formosa &#8217;21, &#8217;22<\/strong>, senior accountant at Plastipak Packaging<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>Brad Simmons Community Impact Award:<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Isaiah &#8220;Ike&#8221; McKinnon &#8217;75, &#8217;78 , former police chief and deputy mayor of Detroit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/UDM-BLA-2026\">Purchase tickets online<\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The celebration honors leaders who demonstrate professional success, outstanding contributions to society and the embodiment of University of Detroit Mercy&#8217;s Jesuit and Mercy values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","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],"tags":[59,130,2195,1212],"class_list":["post-26332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ccnews","tag-alumni","tag-cba","tag-college-of-business-administration","tag-leadership-awards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6QI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26332"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26389,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26332\/revisions\/26389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}