Rebecca Slezak (MBA’27)
Faces of Leeds Snapshot
Name: Rebecca Slezak
Major: Master's in Business Administration
Hometown: Mahomet, Illinois
Rebecca Slezak is excited to be back in school to get her MBA, but she’s not exactly “going back”—she was already here. As an adjunct professor teaching for the past nine months in the Journalism Department of the College of Communication, Media, Design, and Information, she felt that becoming a CU student was a “natural transition,” as she already loved the campus culture and compelling opportunities within Leeds.
What excites Slezak the most? The diverse group of peers in the MBA cohort. She looks forward to learning from and learning with them.
Her goal: to become a creative director or marketing director. She has already started thinking about the type of leader she’d like to be, drawing upon her natural tendency to put herself in others’ shoes and advocate for them. Matched with her personal goals of creating a healthy work-life balance in her future career, the MBA program is making that goal feel more achievable than ever.
It really feels like we’re all in this together and that I can ask anyone within the group for help if I have questions.