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Elizabeth Delozier, BSIM ‘14 Age: 22 Hometown: Grove City, Ohio Undergraduate Degree: Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management
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GPA: 3.7 UC Campus Involvement: UC Homecoming Queen in 2012, President of the University Funding Board, member of the Cincinnatus Honorary Society and Student Government, CFO of Lindner Women in Business
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ith a full-time job offer from Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing and an acceptance into Harvard Business School before she even graduated from Lindner, it’s hard to deny that Elizabeth Delozier is an accomplished UC student. Delozier, who graduated from Lindner in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management, will work at Toyota for two years before heading to Harvard’s MBA program. Her real-world experiences at Lindner —co-ops with General Electric and Toyota—paved the way for her admittance into Harvard. Starting at UC’s College of Engineering and Applied Science, Delozier quickly discovered her desire to study business and transferred into Lindner’s Industrial Management program to blend engineering with a business degree. During her sophomore year, she transitioned into Lindner’s Marvin P. Kolodzik Business Scholars program and has never looked back. She seized the opportunity to travel to Paris and Belgium with 38
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her classmates and discovered her passion for global travel. Delozier credits her first international experience as the reason she pursued a follow-up trip to China. Visiting Beijing, Chengdu and Guangzhou, Delozier loved the region’s strong business connections and cultural challenges. “I know China may not be the most glamorous destination, but it’s a trip that will push you and put you outside your comfort zone,” she says. “I cannot encourage this trip enough to young people.” While at Lindner, Delozier found a way to unite her love for travel with her passion for women’s rights. She traveled to India to help fight human trafficking last spring and served on the first executive team for the Lindner Women in Business organization. Delozier says her global and professional experiences as a project manager while on co-op helped her land the full-time position at Toyota. In her new role as a supplier engineering development specialist,
she travels to manufacturing suppliers throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico. While at Toyota, she furthered her passion for women’s rights and worked extensively to diversify. She became involved with the annual Toyota Opportunity Exchange that establishes connections with minority- and women-owned businesses to integrate them into Toyota’s supply chain. Delozier oversaw the event’s social media marketing and attended the exchange. What matters to Delozier is seeing more women in manufacturing leadership roles. Building upon her Lindner foundation and current role at Toyota, Delozier dreams of taking the knowledge she will obtain from her Harvard MBA and applying it to manufacturing strategy and supply chain management. “My dream is to empower women in developing countries by creating manufacturing jobs and helping them get careers in that field,” she says.