1151 Scott Lake Rd, Waterford Twp, MI 48328, United States
Barra attended Waterford Mott High School.
College/University
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Barra studied electrical engineering at the General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) and has a Bachelor of Science degree.
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A hard-working student, Barra was awarded a General Motors Fellowship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1988, and in 1990 she graduated with a Masters in Business Administration degree.
Career
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Mary Barra briefs the news media before addressing the company's shareholders at the General Motors Co. annual shareholder's meeting at GM world headquarters on June 10, 2014, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
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Mary Barra (L), and Anton Valukas, head of GM's internal recall investigations are sworn in before testifying during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on June 18, 2014, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson)
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2014
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Mary Barra answers a question from an audience member while addressing the Detroit Economic Club on October 28, 2014, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
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2014
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Mary Barra attends The New York Times DealBook Conference at One World Trade Center on December 11, 2014, in New York City. (Photo by Thos Robinson)
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2014
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Mary Barra (L) and DealBook founder and editor-at-large Andrew Ross Sorkin speak onstage during The New York Times DealBook Conference at One World Trade Center on December 11, 2014, in New York City. (Photo by Thos Robinson)
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2014
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Mary Barra, incoming chief executive officer of General Motors Co. (GM), speaks to the media after the GM 2015 GMC Canyon truck unveiling ahead of the 2014 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., on Sunday, January 12, 2014. Photographer: Andrew Harrer
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2014
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Mary Barra prepares to testify before the full House Energy and Commerce hearing room in a hearing entitled "The GM Ignition Switch Recall: Why Did It Take So Long?" April 1, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Allison Shelley)
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2014
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Mary Barra testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, on April 1, 2014, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson)
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2015
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Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors poses for a photo after being interviewed by LinkedIn Executive Editor Dan Roth at LinkedIn Studios on June 17, 2015, in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy)
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2015
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Mary Barra speaks onstage during Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit - Day 2 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on October 13, 2015, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi)
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2015
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Mary Barra, the GM CEO, introduces the 2016 Chevy Volt electric car during a press conference at Cobo Center on January 12, 2015, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Paul Warner)
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2015
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Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors Co. (GM), speaks after unveiling the GM Chevrolet Cruze during an event at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit, Michigan, United States, on Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Photographer: Jeff Kowalsky
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2015
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Mary Barra takes questions from the media prior to the start of the 2015 UAW-GM auto contract negotiations at the UAW-GM Center for Human Resources July 13th, 2015 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
Mary Barra and Karl-Thomas Neumann attend the 'Goldenes Lenkrad' Award at Axel Springer Haus on November 8, 2016, in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Tristar Media)
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2016
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Mary Barra, Chairman, and CEO of General Motors speaks during a General Motors press conference at the Renaissance Center on December 15, 2016, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Rachel Woolf)
Mary Barra and Karl-Thomas Neumann attend the 'Goldenes Lenkrad' Award at Axel Springer Haus on November 8, 2016, in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Brian Dowling)
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2017
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Mary Barra (L), Chairman of the Managing Board of French carmaker PSA Group Carlos Tavares (C), and Opel CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann (R) pose after a press conference on March 6, 2017, in Paris, France. (Photo by Chesnot)
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2017
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Donald Trump meets with CEO of General Motors Mary Barra (L), CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Sergio Marchionne (R), and other auto industry leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 24, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Shawn Thew-Pool)
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2017
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Donald Trump (2nd R) delivers opening remarks at the beginning of a policy forum with (L-R) PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, Blackstone Group Chairman and CEO Stephen Schwarzman, General Motors CEO Mary Barra and other business leaders in the State Dining Room at the White House February 3, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla)
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2017
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Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors (GM), walks with her husband Tony Barra as they arrive for the third day of the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 13, 2017, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (Photo by Drew Angerer)
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2017
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Mary Barra speaks during a session of the 2017 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit on October 10, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong)
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2018
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Mary Barra speaks to the news media before the automobile maker's annual meeting of shareholders at GM world headquarters June12, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
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2018
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Mary Barra, Chairman, and CEO of General Motors speaks at CityLab Detroit, a global city summit, on October 29, 2018, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
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2018
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Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors (GM), speaks to reporters after a meeting with Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) on Capitol Hill, December 5, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer)
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2018
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General Motors (GM) CEO Mary Barra speaks to the news media before the automobile maker's annual meeting of shareholders at GM world headquarters on June12, 2018, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
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2018
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Mary Barra, Chairman, and CEO of General Motors speaks at CityLab Detroit, a global city summit, on October 29, 2018, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
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2018
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Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors (GM), arrives for a meeting with members of the Congressional Michigan delegation on Capitol Hill, December 6, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong)
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2019
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Mary Barra announces a $300 million investment in the GM Orion Assembly Plant plant for electric and self-driving vehicles at the Orion Assembly Plant on March 22, 2019, in Lake Orion, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
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Mary Barra talks with reporters following a meeting with lawmakers from Michigan and Ohio at the United States Capitol on June 05, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla)
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Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors (GM), attends the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 12, 2019, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (Photo by Drew Angerer)
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Mary Barra speaks at the opening of the 2019 GM-UAW contract talks on July 16, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
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2019
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Mary Barra, Chairman, and CEO of General Motors is shown at the reveals of the new 2021 Chevrolet Suburban and 2021 Chevrolet Tahoe SUVs at Little Caesars Arena on December 10, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
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2019
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Mary Barra, General Motors Chairman and CEO, attends the reveal of the General Motors Cadillac XT6 three-row crossover SUV at the Garden Theater on January 13, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
Mary Barra briefs the news media before addressing the company's shareholders at the General Motors Co. annual shareholder's meeting at GM world headquarters on June 10, 2014, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
Mary Barra (L), and Anton Valukas, head of GM's internal recall investigations are sworn in before testifying during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on June 18, 2014, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson)
Mary Barra answers a question from an audience member while addressing the Detroit Economic Club on October 28, 2014, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
Mary Barra (L) and DealBook founder and editor-at-large Andrew Ross Sorkin speak onstage during The New York Times DealBook Conference at One World Trade Center on December 11, 2014, in New York City. (Photo by Thos Robinson)
Mary Barra, incoming chief executive officer of General Motors Co. (GM), speaks to the media after the GM 2015 GMC Canyon truck unveiling ahead of the 2014 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., on Sunday, January 12, 2014. Photographer: Andrew Harrer
Mary Barra prepares to testify before the full House Energy and Commerce hearing room in a hearing entitled "The GM Ignition Switch Recall: Why Did It Take So Long?" April 1, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Allison Shelley)
Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors poses for a photo after being interviewed by LinkedIn Executive Editor Dan Roth at LinkedIn Studios on June 17, 2015, in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy)
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Mary Barra speaks onstage during Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit - Day 2 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on October 13, 2015, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi)
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Mary Barra, the GM CEO, introduces the 2016 Chevy Volt electric car during a press conference at Cobo Center on January 12, 2015, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Paul Warner)
2115 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48201, United States
Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors Co. (GM), speaks after unveiling the GM Chevrolet Cruze during an event at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit, Michigan, United States, on Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Photographer: Jeff Kowalsky
Mary Barra takes questions from the media prior to the start of the 2015 UAW-GM auto contract negotiations at the UAW-GM Center for Human Resources July 13th, 2015 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
Mary Barra and Karl-Thomas Neumann attend the 'Goldenes Lenkrad' Award at Axel Springer Haus on November 8, 2016, in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Tristar Media)
Mary Barra, Chairman, and CEO of General Motors speaks during a General Motors press conference at the Renaissance Center on December 15, 2016, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Rachel Woolf)
Mary Barra and Karl-Thomas Neumann attend the 'Goldenes Lenkrad' Award at Axel Springer Haus on November 8, 2016, in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Brian Dowling)
Mary Barra (L), Chairman of the Managing Board of French carmaker PSA Group Carlos Tavares (C), and Opel CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann (R) pose after a press conference on March 6, 2017, in Paris, France. (Photo by Chesnot)
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Donald Trump meets with CEO of General Motors Mary Barra (L), CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Sergio Marchionne (R), and other auto industry leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 24, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Shawn Thew-Pool)
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Donald Trump (2nd R) delivers opening remarks at the beginning of a policy forum with (L-R) PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, Blackstone Group Chairman and CEO Stephen Schwarzman, General Motors CEO Mary Barra and other business leaders in the State Dining Room at the White House February 3, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla)
Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors (GM), walks with her husband Tony Barra as they arrive for the third day of the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 13, 2017, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (Photo by Drew Angerer)
Mary Barra speaks to the news media before the automobile maker's annual meeting of shareholders at GM world headquarters June12, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
Mary Barra, Chairman, and CEO of General Motors speaks at CityLab Detroit, a global city summit, on October 29, 2018, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors (GM), speaks to reporters after a meeting with Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) on Capitol Hill, December 5, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer)
General Motors (GM) CEO Mary Barra speaks to the news media before the automobile maker's annual meeting of shareholders at GM world headquarters on June12, 2018, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
Mary Barra, Chairman, and CEO of General Motors speaks at CityLab Detroit, a global city summit, on October 29, 2018, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors (GM), arrives for a meeting with members of the Congressional Michigan delegation on Capitol Hill, December 6, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong)
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Mary Barra announces a $300 million investment in the GM Orion Assembly Plant plant for electric and self-driving vehicles at the Orion Assembly Plant on March 22, 2019, in Lake Orion, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
Mary Barra talks with reporters following a meeting with lawmakers from Michigan and Ohio at the United States Capitol on June 05, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla)
Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors (GM), attends the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 12, 2019, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (Photo by Drew Angerer)
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Mary Barra, Chairman, and CEO of General Motors is shown at the reveals of the new 2021 Chevrolet Suburban and 2021 Chevrolet Tahoe SUVs at Little Caesars Arena on December 10, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
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Mary Barra, General Motors Chairman and CEO, attends the reveal of the General Motors Cadillac XT6 three-row crossover SUV at the Garden Theater on January 13, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano)
A hard-working student, Barra was awarded a General Motors Fellowship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1988, and in 1990 she graduated with a Masters in Business Administration degree.
Mary Barra is an American businesswoman. Barra is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of General Motors Company. Barra was elected Chairman of the General Motors Board of Directors on January 4, 2016, and has served as CEO of General Motors since January 15, 2014. Being the first female CEO of a major automaker, she has been showcased on the Times cover as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Background
Ethnicity:
Both of Mary Barra's parents are of Finnish descent.
Mary Barra was born on December 24, 1961, in Royal Oak, Michigan, the United States, to Ray and Eva Makela. Barra comes from humble roots. Her parents were of Finnish descent. Barra's father, Ray Makela, was a die-maker at a Pontiac plant for almost 40 years. Her mother, Eva Makela, was a housewife. She has a brother Paul Makela, a renowned doctor serving as the Director of Gynecological Robotic Surgery in St. Mary Mercy Hospital.
Education
Barra attended Waterford Mott High School. Barra studied electrical engineering at the General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) and has a Bachelor of Science degree. During her years there, she became a part of Tau Beta Pi, the oldest engineering honor society.
A hard-working student, she was awarded a General Motors Fellowship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1988, and in 1990 Barra graduated with a Masters in Business Administration degree.
Barra’s illustrious career started with General Motors when she was just 18 years old. She became a co-op student at the Pontiac Motor Division. This program helped pay her college tuition. She spent half the year working for the company, initially inspecting fender and hood panels at a Pontiac plant.
When she graduated with her undergraduate degree, Barra accepted a position at General Motors as a senior engineer. Through her time at General Motors, Barra was able to show off her leadership abilities, earning confidence from executives. To nurture that leadership potential, the automaker later sponsored her attendance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
It is purely on merit and resilience that she charted her way up the ladder. Immediately after getting her Master of Business Administration, she got her first job as a General Motors manager, running manufacturing planning. In her role, Barra was able to shine with her leadership skills and problem-solving abilities.
Then came a series of increasingly visible jobs, including executive assistant to General Motors's CEO in the mid-'90s, fixing a troubled internal communications department, turning around an important and troubled Detroit plant, and bringing data and efficiency to the company's messy human resources department, which earned her a spot on General Motors's executive committee. While this may have been an exciting role, it was far from easy. There were problems left and right, including manufacturing problems that spanned back to her days in the co-op program.
Barra moved from success to success. She served as Executive Vice President, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain since August 2013, and as Senior Vice President, Global Product Development since February 2011. In these roles, she was responsible for the design, engineering, program management, and quality of General Motors vehicles around the world. In 2014, she was installed as the automobile company’s CEO, becoming the first woman in history to head one of the “Big Three” American automakers.
When Mary Barra became the CEO of General Motors, the auto industry was emerging from some difficult times, and General Motors was on the path to regaining some hard-won stability. In selecting Barra, the Board chose to tap homegrown talent - Barra came up through the ranks - rather than looking outside the company. Shortly after Barra took over, General Motors was confronted with the ignition switch crisis as well as a series of other recalls. Barra’s knowledge of General Motors and its unique dynamics would prove critical as the company worked to regain its footing.
In her quest to redesign General Motors, Barra draws on her deep understanding of both human and engineering dynamics. From a human perspective, she amplifies and directs her people’s energy by modeling authenticity, courage, integrity, and resilience. From an engineering perspective, she employs tried-and-true engineering principles - shared and aggressive goals, collaboration across functions, and built-in feedback loops.
Under Barra’s leadership, General Motors is working to lead the transformation of personal mobility through advanced technologies such as connectivity, electrification, and autonomous driving. Barra has also established a strategic direction based on putting the customer at the center of everything the company does, all around the world. Barra was elected as Chairman of the General Motors Board of Directors in 2016.
Barra also serves on the Board of Directors of the Stanford University Board of Trustees and the Detroit Economic Club. Barra was elected to the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company, the world's largest independent media conglomerate. She is the 12th person to be elected to join the board, in the 96 years history of Disney.
Mary Barra is General Motors's first female CEO, and the first woman to lead any major automaker. Throughout years, Barra managed to avoid the toxic politics that had come to define General Motors' internal culture. Instead, her career at General Motors has been defined by a drive toward efficiency, agility, and better quality, things that the company sorely lacked as it fell behind other automakers.
Time magazine cited her on its list of the "100 Most Influential People"; the financial periodical Forbes named her number seven on its list of the "World’s 100 Most Powerful Women"; and Fortune assigned her the number one spot in the magazine’s list of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Business."
Having earned $21.9 million in 2018, Barra has the highest compensation of any leader of a Detroit Big Three automaker. Barra received an honorary degree from the University of Michigan on May 3, 2014. She also delivered the Spring Commencement address for the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus at Michigan Stadium on the same day.
Views
Mary, along with her husband, is active in charity works and they chaired the Detroit International Wine Auction in 2014, raising a record $2.4 million for scholarships and community arts programs through the College for Creative Studies. In 2012, they chaired the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute’s 30th annual dinner, which raised nearly $1.7 million for cancer research. The duo is also known for community arts programs and scholarships worth $2.4 million through College for Creative Studies.
She is also a supporter of STEM education, a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines - science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - in an interdisciplinary and applied approach.
Barra believes in giving her designers and engineers at General Motors the flexibility to achieve greatness: "I think there was sometimes so many boundaries put on them that we didn’t give them a recipe for success. So now we're saying no excuses, if its budget, if its resources, we have to do great cars, trucks, and crossovers and it’s our job to enable you to do that." In essence, Barra’s motto is "no more crappy cars."
Barra believes that a gender-equal world is an enabled world - where diversity of thought and experience sparks an innovative and collaborative culture. She is looking forward to the day when a woman CEO is a norm and not an exception.
Quotations:
"Everybody does a better job when they're able to balance."
"It's important to surround yourself with people who will challenge you and tell you when and why you are wrong."
"If we win the hearts and minds of employees, we're going to have better business success."
"If you do every job like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, that's when you get noticed."
"The biggest message I have for young women is: don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start."
"My first job at General Motors was as a quality inspector on the assembly line. I was checking fits between hoods and fenders. I had a little scale and clipboard. At one point, I was probably examining 60 jobs an hour during an eight-hour shift. A job like that teaches you to value all the people who do a job like that."
"My advice on firing is simple: Treat that person the same way you'd want to be treated if you were in that situation. They're still a good person, just not the right fit. So how do you help them move on in a productive way that allows them to maintain their dignity?"
"I believe the auto industry will change more in the next 5 to 10 years than it has in the last 50."
Membership
While studying at the university, Mary was inducted into the engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi.
Tau Beta Pi is the only engineering honor society representing the entire engineering profession. It is the nation's second-oldest honor society.
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Personality
Mary Barra is genuinely passionate about cars and her first car was a Chevette. Staying loyal to her company, the CEO listed ’67-’69 convertible Camaros and Firebirds as her favorite cars. Barra drives two, sometimes three, cars a week but her favorite is any version of the Camaro. Barra has a number of model cars on her desk at work, alongside an Albert Einstein figurine.
While she is driving, Barra loves to listen to a radio station called The Pulse and any songs from the '80s, '90s. She likes to watch car movies. Her favorites also include Clear and Present Danger, Transformers, and Bumble Bee. Mary loves hockey. 10 Red Wings games are attended, on average, by Barra each year. She’s a season ticket holder.
Interests
Cooking
Politicians
George H.W. Bush, John McCain
Writers
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Sport & Clubs
Aerobics, skiing, windsurfing, hockey, Detroit Red Wings
Music & Bands
Aretha Franklin
Connections
Mary met Anthony E. Barra while attending Kettering University. The couple tied the knot shortly after in 1985 and have two children Rachel and Nicholas. Her husband Tony Barra is an engineering consultant.
Father:
Ray Makela
Mother:
Eva Makela
Spouse:
Anthony E. Barra
Son:
Nicholas Barra
Nicholas is reportedly a truck enthusiast, who often shares his new ideas for vehicles and their performance, with Mary.
