ULI Michigan Women's Leadership Initiative BUILD UP Breakfast Series 2023

When

2023-03-23 - 2023-12-05

Pricing

Standard Pricing Until June 30 Members Non-Members
All Types $35.00 $35.00

Agenda

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2023-03-23T08:30:00 - 2023-12-05T11:00:00
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Detroit
2023-03-23T08:30:00 - 2023-12-05T11:00:00
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Grand Rapids
2023-03-23T08:30:00 - 2023-12-05T11:00:00
America/New_York
Marquette
2023-03-23T08:30:00 - 2023-12-05T11:00:00
America/New_York
Kalamazoo
2023-03-23T08:30:00 - 2023-12-05T11:00:00
America/New_York
Midland
2023-03-23T08:30:00 - 2023-12-05T11:00:00
America/New_York
Lansing
2023-03-23T08:30:00 - 2023-12-05T11:00:00
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Ann Arbor
2023-03-23T08:30:00 - 2023-12-05T11:00:00
America/New_York
Virtual Only

The ULI Michigan WLI chapter is proud to present another year of the BUILD UP Breakfast Clubs: Empowering women in real estate to build better communities together. Through this initiative we hope to connect women around the state and make space for conversation and connection.

BUILD UP Breakfast Clubs bring together small groups of women and give them an opportunity to build lasting relationships, engage meaningfully with women working in their field, and build strong networks within their region. Each regional breakfast club is captained by a local WLI champion who arranges the location and time for their breakfast club to meet. The program has been launched in 7 locations throughout the state of Michigan, scheduled to meet individually 4-6 times per year. Locations include Ann Arbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Midland (Great Lakes Bay Region), Lansing, Marquette, and Kalamazoo. In advance of each meet-up, ULI Michigan provides virtual content to be viewed and discussed, and annually provides the opportunity for a live stream, interactive keynote event. Content varies from speakers to recorded lectures and focuses on issues that are important to women in real estate and is guided by WLI members.

After the group broadcasts the speaker or video they discuss the topic further and have more in-depth conversation. Breakfast Clubs are limited to about 15 women to ensure more genuine connections among the group.

 

**2023 Breakfast Schedule**

    • Thursday, March 23rd
    • Wednesday, June 21st
    • Friday, September 15th
    • Tuesday, December 5th

This is a hybrid event with in-person locations, or an option to join virtually. 

Speakers

Donna Inch

Retired, Ford Land

Donna Inch has over 38 years of automotive experience as a leader of P&L operations and financial CFO re-sponsibilities at Ford Motor Company. Prior to retirement, Donna served as Chairman and CEO of Ford Land Development Corporation a Ford Motor Company subsidiary. As Chairman and CEO, Donna led Ford’s global real estate and facilities management with a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of 275 million square feet. Donna partnered with company leadership in leading a 10-year, multi-billion-dollar master plan to transform the corporate headquarters and global research-engineering campuses to advance technology and sustainable operations. At Ford Land, Donna also led engineering and construction, dealership design, energy sup-ply/efficiency, and workplace design. She provided real estate-focused strategies and services for global business operations with an operating budget of about $485 million. In her financial CFO responsibilities within Ford, Donna served as CFO of Ford Customer Service Division and Controller/CFO of North American Marketing and Sales. In earlier career financial management positions, Donna worked in other key areas of the automotive business, including global Product Development, Planning and Engineering, Manufacturing and Vehicle Safety, Customer Service, and Corporate Finance staff. Donna presently serves on the Board of Directors and Audit Committee for the Piston Group, a tier one au-tomotive supplier. She also recently served as a consultant and member of the Strategic Advisory Commit-tee (SAC) for Arcadis US, Inc. Donna serves on several nonprofit boards and two University Advisory boards. She also works as a volunteer on various committees with Corewell (previously Beaumont) Health System. Donna has received numerous awards for her work on diversity and as a leading women executive. She earned BBA and MBA degrees in Finance from Eastern Michigan University. Donna is married with two grown children and two grandchildren.

Debra Hoge

Global Director, Real Estate, General Motors

Debra Homic Hoge is currently the Global Director of Real Estate at General Motors. Debra is responsible for the acquisition, disposition and redevelopment of corporate real estate throughout the world. GM’s portfolio consists of over 305M s.f. Prior to her current position, Debby has held various assignments within the Real Estate Organization at GM such as the Director for North America, she held an international assignment in Russelsheim, Germany where she was responsible for the entire GM real estate portfolio across the European Region, was the Director of Retail Real Estate, as well as leading the Western Regional Office in Los Angeles supporting the Dealer Network. Currently Debra is on the Executive Board for the City of Detroit Business Improvement Zone, previously a member of the Global Board of Directors for CORENET-Governance Committee, and various other subsidiaries owned or controlled by General Motors. Debra received her Bachelor’s degree from Oakland University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Detroit-Mercy. She also holds the Masters of Corporate Real Estate Designation from CORENET. Debra has spoken at various events hosted throughout the Globe supporting the professional real estate industry. Debra was also recently recognized by Crain’s Detroit Business’ as one of “50 Real Estate People to Know”.