Welcome to the Automotive Leaders Podcast, where we help you prepare for the future by sharing insights, stories, and skills from leading voices in the automotive world.

I’m your host, Jan Griffiths — that passionate, rebellious farmer’s daughter from Wales with over 35 years of experience in the auto industry. 

I’m on a mission to create a more authentic leadership culture, one in which people can thrive.

“Command and control” as a leadership model is DEAD. Authentic leadership is in.

It’s time to break the mold.

So what exactly is authentic leadership and how do you practice it? What are the challenges facing auto industry leaders today?

We’re in a transformational time. EVs and autonomous driving are entirely new product portfolios. But have our models of leadership and business culture evolved to meet the moment?

You can’t have one without the other.

In this podcast, you’ll hear in-depth interviews, powerful insights and fun facts from the people at the forefront of these groundbreaking shifts in the auto industry. 

We publish a new episode every 2 weeks, one long form guest interview between 40 and 50 minutes followed by a solo episode where I’ll deconstruct the guest interview and go deeper into the leadership traits discussed.

As a listener, you can also access the 21 traits of authentic leadership pdf  to help you on your leadership journey.

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Start your journey into authentic leadership today by digging in to our library of episodes with thought leaders such as Stephen M.R. Covey where we focus specifically on the automotive industry and explain why the C & C model is well and truly dead , the author Daniel Pink on the Power of Regret and how this applies to leaders in the auto industry, Sandy Stojkovski CEO of Vitesco, Steve Kiefer former head of global purchasing for GM and Stefan Krause former CEO of Canoo and a recognised leader in the mobility space and many more.

You can find a complete list that’s easy to navigate on our website, theautomotiveleaderspodcast.com. 

Easily navigate our back catalogue of episodes

Each episode has robust show notes to help you navigate the episode along with a full episode transcript.

If you prefer to watch a video rather than pure audio you can find us on the Gravitas Detroit  YouTube channel 

Learn more about your host, Jan Griffiths in this short video

Stay true to yourself, be you , and lead with Gravitas, the hallmark of authentic leadership.