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Prepare yourself, your team, and your business for the future of automotive. We are all evolving the products we make, have you thought about the leadership model to get us there? In-depth interviews with leaders, authors, and thought leaders, provide the insights you need. This podcast is brought to you by Gravitas Detroit.
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Signup to Generate a PitchPrepare yourself, your team, and your business for the future of automotive. We are all evolving the products we make, have you thought about the leadership model to get us there? In-depth interviews with leaders, authors, and thought leaders, provide the insights you need. This podcast is brought to you by Gravitas Detroit.
Recent episodes include "Competitors at the Same Table: Leading Collaboration in the Automotive Industry" (22 October 2026, 27 minutes), "Speed Gets Built in the Room: Why Collaboration Is Automotive's Competitive Edge" (8 October 2026, 16 minutes), and "Why Automotive Leaders Must Break Rules" (24 September 2026, 40 minutes).
The Automotive Leaders Podcast publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 29 minutes.
Booking probability for The Automotive Leaders Podcast is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Automotive Leaders Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Automotive Leaders Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Automotive Leaders Podcast are Car & Truck Manufacturing. The Automotive Leaders Podcast has a business audience and around 630 subscribers on YouTube.
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Episode #196
Put Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, BMW, Volkswagen, and seven more automakers in one room. They fight each other over every sale, and somebody has to get them to agree on a single position and carry it into Washington. That...
Episode #195
Collaboration is in every corporate deck and on every conference room wall in this industry. Look it up, and you'll find two or more people or organizations working together to achieve a shared goal. That's it. So...
Episode #194
Nobody outsources the engine. It's the heartbeat of the vehicle, and outside of a few niche players, no large OEM has ever seriously considered handing it to someone else. Tom Lewis is betting that rule's about to...
Episode #193
This week, Jan made a call most podcasters won't make. She sat down in the studio with a leader she's wanted on the show for a long time, and the conversation was too strong to rush out in two days. Every episode goes...
Episode #192
We keep talking about China speed as if it were a new discovery. Early supplier involvement is presented as a fresh idea. Consultants are back in the building with slick decks about taking time out of the process, and...
Episode #191
Automotive built the procurement playbook. Structure, process, category management, sourcing discipline. Compressed margins forced it, and every penny had to be defended. The problem is that the same discipline that...
Episode #190
Tariffs bought this industry a window. Ramiro Gutierrez, President of North America, ZF Group, is not convinced we are using it. He has spent 30 years in the automotive industry, and he left it once. Aerospace turned...
Episode #189
In the automotive industry, we often focus on the vehicle itself, the technology within it, the smart factories, and artificial intelligence. Ford is leading the way in all these areas, even reimagining the assembly...
Episode #188
In 1976, an 11-year-old girl from a small farm in Wales stood before a glass case in Greenwich, England, staring at strange uniforms and a document called the Constitution. The exhibition was titled "The British Story...
Episode #187
In Part 1, Jim Voss, CEO of Tenneco, took on a company in need of a turnaround. In Part 2, he hands you the playbook behind it. This is the Tenneco Way. Not a poster on a wall. Not a slide deck someone presents once a...
Episode #186
How do you take a 100-plus-year-old automotive company with 158 manufacturing sites, operations in 28 countries, more than 60,000 employees, and over 30 brands and transform it into a top-performing company? That’s the...
Episode #185
<p>Season 7 of the Automotive Leaders Podcast is officially coming to a close, and Jan Griffiths is taking a moment to reflect on the journey, the lessons, and what’s ahead for the automotive industry. In this short...
Episode #184
<p>For the first time in 26 years of the Working Relations Index, every single North American OEM moved up the chart. Ford, Toyota, Stellantis, Honda, GM, and Nissan all scored higher than the year before. That has...
Episode #183
<p>What does it really mean to lead at the highest level in the automotive industry today?</p><p>In this episode, Jan Griffiths sits down with Phil Biggs, the man quietly trusted by more than 100 CEOs across automotive...
Episode #182
<p>What happens when a 100-year-old luxury brand decides to think like a startup?</p><p>In this episode, Jan Griffiths sits down with Joaquin Nuño-Whelan, President of Lincoln, live from Newlab at Michigan Central. This...
Episode #181
<p>The USMCA review is fast approaching, uncertainty is building across the automotive industry, and leaders are asking a critical question: Is the agreement that binds North America together at risk?</p><p>Colin Bird...
Episode #180
<p>Q1 was a wild ride. Tariffs. Geopolitical shocks. Supply chain chaos. And now Q2 is here, and the question no one's asking out loud is: are you walking into your quarterly review meetings with the same playbook...
Episode #179
<p>Reinvention in the automotive industry is no longer optional. It is survival. In this episode, Jan Griffiths sits down with Lori Lancaster, Vice Chair of Emotiv Mobility, to break down what reinvention really looks...
Episode #178
<p>If you had told Jan a year ago she would bring a member of Congress onto this show, she would have said you were crazy.</p><p>But this isn’t about politics.</p><p>It’s about survival.</p><p>It’s about supply chains...
Episode #177
<h2>Download the full webinar slides here</h2><p>Special Audio from the February 20th Seraph Webinar</p><p>Tariffs were struck down.</p><p>So why does the pressure still feel the same?</p><p>If the Supreme Court ruled...
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