John Coleman
Home Town: Cincinnati, Ohio
High School: St. Xavier
Major: Business
Year of Graduation from UM-Flint: 1993 MBA
In the seemingly short 14 years since I graduated with my MBA, I am amazed at how much my education is constantly with me.
I am currently working in General Motors North America Engineering with teams of varying engineering, design, purchasing, and manufacturing backgrounds. Our task is to balance all of these competing requirements to optimize our vehicle designs.
The technical challenges always exist, especially with new technologies, but the constant is helping teams to work through all of the issues comprehensively and efficiently to make good, clear and timely decisions. Not a day goes by in which the strength of my education, academic experience and continuing involvement with U/M-Flint isn’t reinforced.
I was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, doing my undergrad work at Miami University. Shortly after beginning my professional career and moving to Michigan I knew I wanted to expand my professional opportunities. There was only one obstacle; Being accepted to UM-Flint. To me there was no other institution to realize the personal and professional growth I was pursuing.
With the confidence of being part of UM-Flint, first as a student and now alum, I have met and enjoyed a broad range of challenges. All have been available to me because of that education, experience and confidence from my enrollment with UM-Flint.