Explore every episode of the podcast CAREER-VIEW MIRROR - biographies of colleagues in the automotive and mobility industries.
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| Jean-Luc Cartwright: an eternal car nerd whose initiative, adaptability and ability to lead have propelled him to Lexus, Tesla and now his own classic car business. | 13 Oct 2024 | 01:26:32 | |
In this episode we are celebrating the career to date of Jean-Luc Cartwright. | |||
| Susanne Allmendinger-Vogt: a passionate brand strategist dedicated to supporting deep tech startups. | 06 Oct 2024 | 01:17:29 | |
In this episode we are celebrating the career to date of Susanne Allmendinger-Vogt. | |||
| Kees Jan Boorsma: Demonstrating how no experience need be wasted during an inspiring international career with PSA and Global Automotive. | 04 Aug 2024 | 01:15:22 | |
In this episode I'm joined by Kees Jan Boorsma. | |||
| John Ellis: The "never disrespectful, always irreverent" bestselling author of The Zero Dollar Car. | 14 Nov 2022 | 01:47:07 | |
John is the Founder & Managing Director of jte Consulting, the global management consulting firm that serves clients in the world where transportation, consumer, connectivity, and software intersect. As a former executive at Motorola and Global Technologist at Ford Motor Company, John led or participated in teams that built many of the innovations we see today in connected vehicles on the ground and in the air. Since then, he has helped cities and organizations understand how technology is affecting the way our streets, sidewalks, and curbs operate, now and into the future. John is the best-selling author of The Zero Dollar Car, a former adjunct professor at University of Notre Dame, as well as a former translator in the 1992 Summer Olympics. In our conversation we talk about John’s childhood experience, the value of learning a language, how he maximised his opportunities at university, and his international career. While John insists he’s a software guy and not a car guy, his experience and worldview only seem to get more relevant to our mobility industry each year. I was lucky enough to be in the audience when John first delivered his Zero Dollar Car speech that spawned his book and his professional speaking career and I’m delighted and proud to be able to introduce him to you in this episode.
If you enjoy listening to my guests career stories, please follow CAREER-VIEW MIRROR in your podcast app. Buy his book The Zero Dollar Car at www.johntellis.com Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed?
This episode of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fulfilling Performance in the mobility industry. We leverage our Aquilae Consulting arm for business topics and the Aquilae Academy for people topics. And, once we're agreed on the way forward, we work alongside you and your teams to enable Fulfilling Performance and achieve your goals. I explain Fulfilling Performance in more detail in Episode 60 of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR which is a short Side Mirror episode.
Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 17 October, 2022 | |||
| Side Mirror: When one door closes, push on some more. | 07 Nov 2022 | 00:20:14 | |
In this Side Mirror episode I've shared a personal story about a role I went for and didn't get and what happened next. It's deliberately quite detailed as I want to take you behind the scenes and share what I was thinking and what actions I was taking at that time in case it is helpful for your own decision making.
Could you use some additional experienced resources who can work alongside you and your team on a flexible basis to help you achieve your priorities? I started Aquilae in 2016 and since then we have worked internationally with established automotive OEMs, EV start ups, FinTechs and insurance companies to achieve their unique mobility goals. Aquilae team members are highly experienced senior leaders with complementary areas of expertise who have run businesses and divisions internationally in our industry. Because we have all had many years experience of operating in the industry ourselves, we don't just advise our clients on what to do. Instead, we tend to work alongside them, delivering their specific projects. We are happy to help develop strategy and we're equally happy to then get involved delivering the plan. Mobility businesses are all about people, processes and technology. We leverage our Aquilae Academy for people development and Aquilae Consulting for those wider business topics. If you're looking for some help with people or business topics and you like the idea of having some additional very experienced, resources who can work flexibly alongside you. Please get in touch with me for a conversation. You can email me directly at Andy @Aquilae.co.uk
For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk
Episode recorded on 27 October 2022 | |||
| Matthew Boguradzki: How being intentional, working hard and applying a formula can result in a stellar career. | 31 Oct 2022 | 01:17:25 | |
Matt has always had a passion for the BMW Group products and through optimism, hard work and a sprinkle of luck, defined a formula for success that guided him throughout his journey; enabling him to progress quite quickly throughout the wider group and ensure he was match fit for any opportunities that arose. Starting his automotive career with North Shore BMW in Sydney, Australia, Matt moved to BMW Australia in 2013, to become a sales and product trainer. It was here he met his wife Lauren, who he admits is his biggest inspiration and the catalyst for his career taking off. Matt eventually rose to lead the strategic sales function for the MINI Brand in Australia and in 2019, relocated to NYC with Lauren to take on the Vice President of Sales role for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars largest region, the Americas. After more than 13 years with the BMW Group, Matt has recently relocated from New York City to Laguna Beach to take on a new role as Vice President of Sales and Strategy for Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial space line. I am grateful to Brett Waudby for recommending Matt as a potential guest and for introducing us. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Matt in our conversation. Listening to it, I’m sure you’ll get a sense of Matt’s energy levels and the highly intentional way he has gone about managing his career. He also shares the three ingredients that have helped him on his journey. I am delighted to be able to introduce Matt to you in this episode and look forward to hearing what resonates with you. Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed?
This episode of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fulfilling Performance in the mobility industry. We use our very own Fulfilling Performance paradigm to identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance in your business. We leverage our Aquilae Consulting arm for business topics and the Aquilae Academy for people topics. And, once we're agreed on the way forward, we work alongside you and your teams to enable Fulfilling Performance and achieve your goals. I explain Fulfilling Performance in more detail in Episode 60 of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR which is a short Side Mirror episode.
If you enjoy CAREER-VIEW MIRROR, please follow us in your podcast app. Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk
Episode recorded on 14 October, 2022 | |||
| Kevin Brown: Rolling with good and bad luck, applying yourself when it matters and when hot desks got lost in translation. | 23 Oct 2022 | 01:16:48 | |
Kevin has spent his entire career to date in the automotive industry in a variety of increasingly senior roles with OEMs, service providers and the automotive practices of major consulting firms. We talk about why, following graduation, he chose to join Austin Rover and why he ultimately chose to leave, his experiences in professional services with KPMG and the incredible customer service ethos at the RAC. He shares moments of good and bad luck that shaped his career. Kevin is the leader who first took a chance on me and accepted me into our industry at the age of 28, when I had no previous automotive experience. You'll hear how I may have given him cause to question his decision on my very first day. I'll always be grateful for his open minded attitude to hiring and the opportunities that his decision opened up for me. I'm pleased to be able to celebrate his career and to introduce him to you in this episode and I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. If you enjoy listening to my guests career stories, please follow CAREER-VIEW MIRROR in your podcast app. You can contact Kevin via LinkedIn. Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed?
This episode of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fulfilling Performance in the mobility industry. We use our very own Fulfilling Performance paradigm to identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance in your business. We leverage our Aquilae Consulting arm for business topics and the Aquilae Academy for people topics. And, once we're agreed on the way forward, we work alongside you and your teams to enable Fulfilling Performance and achieve your goals. I explain Fulfilling Performance in more detail in Episode 60 of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR which is a short Side Mirror episode.
If you enjoy CAREER-VIEW MIRROR, please follow us in your podcast app. Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 13 October 2022 | |||
| Peter Coe: When following your passion doesn't work out, pivoting and developing a successful corporate career, learning from those around you and leading with authenticity and positivity. | 16 Oct 2022 | 01:36:22 | |
Peter has traversed a career in the Automotive Financial Services industry for over 18 years with BMW Group in Australia from the early beginnings in an intern program through to senior leadership roles across Finance, Operations, Risk and Sales functions culminating in C level roles as Chief Risk Officer and GM Sales & Marketing. He has experience across diverse functions, and he is passionate about leading and developing individuals and teams, Peter has gained deep experience leading through significant periods of organisational and regulatory change. In our conversation we talk about his earliest work experience in the family business his initial wish to have a career in sport and the subsequent need to pivot, go back to the drawing board and embark on a corporate career. We discuss his progression during 18 years with BMW in Australia which culminated in a difficult decision and change of course for him. Without spoiling the surprise for you, I will share that there is a satisfying plot twist at the end! I first met Peter a dozen or more years ago and I was immediately struck by his attitude to learning and leadership. It is my pleasure to introduce him to you and to share his career story in this episode. If you enjoy listening to my guests career stories, please follow CAREER-VIEW MIRROR in your podcast app.
You can contact Peter via LinkedIn. Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed?
This episode of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fulfilling Performance in the mobility industry. We use our very own Fulfilling Performance paradigm to identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance in your business. We leverage our Aquilae Consulting arm for business topics and the Aquilae Academy for people topics. And, once we're agreed on the way forward, we work alongside you and your teams to enable Fulfilling Performance and achieve your goals. I explain Fulfilling Performance in more detail in Episode 60 of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR which is a short Side Mirror episode.
Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk
Episode recorded on 7 October, 2022 | |||
| Side Mirror: Owning your career journey - 13 steps to help you take charge. | 09 Oct 2022 | 00:11:29 | |
Over the years, I've invested personal time and money to develop my own career and I've amassed a good amount of experience. In the 1:1s I have with clients and young people I mentor, I share some of the paradigms and methods that have proven effective for me and I work with them to help them take ownership of their own careers. A little while ago I wrote down a list of the main ideas that underpin my approach. They form a sort of 13 step guide and I thought that sharing them would make a good Side Mirror episode. It's very high level and no substitute for working with me 1:1, but I think you'll still be able to derive value from it. You'll also notice quite a few references to people and resources that have shaped my thinking and you'll find details and links for some of those below. I hope you find it useful and I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. Resources and links: How to make hard choices - Ruth Chang Developing a Growth Mindset with Carol Dweck Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahnemann Go put your strengths to work - Marcus Buckingham The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
We use our very own Fulfilling Performance paradigm to identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance in your business. We leverage our Aquilae Consulting arm for business topics and the Aquilae Academy for people topics. And once we're agreed on the way forward, we work alongside you and your teams to enable Fulfilling Performance and achieve your goals. I explain Fulfilling Performance in more detail in Episode 60 of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR which is a short Side Mirror episode like this one. Contact me directly if you’d like to know more. My email is Andy@Aquilae.co.uk
For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk
Episode recorded on 8 October 2022 | |||
| Erich Ebner von Eschenbach: (a.k.a. “Triple E”) on banking, Wall Street, M&A, successful Post Merger Integration, the GFC, mobility and leveraging young talent. | 02 Oct 2022 | 01:34:56 | |
Erich is an assertive and result-oriented leader. He has a history of building high performance management teams combined with in-depth understanding of the Financial Services, IT Services and Automotive industries. He has held positions with global leadership responsibility for over 8,000 employees spanning 40+ countries. In our conversation we discuss Erich's journey from bank apprentice to Global Head of Financial Services and then Aftersales for BMW. We talk about his time on Wall Street, what it was like heading up BMW's treasury function during the Global Financial Crisis and the successful integration of ING Car Leasing and Alphabet. Erich shares his early leadership experiences during his period of military service and his later strategy to develop a global culture by leveraging young talent. I know Erich as a driven and innovative leader with a focus on growing people and developing positive and progressive organisational culture. It is my pleasure to share his career story in this episode. If you enjoy listening to my guests career stories, please follow CAREER-VIEW MIRROR in your podcast app. You can contact Erich at: erichebner@t-online.de Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed? This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fulfilling Performance in the mobility industry, internationally. Adopting our Fulfilling Performance paradigm helps you identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation. Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 26 September 2022 | |||
| Nicolas Lacker Stuhl: the international Frenchman who followed his heart to Munich and a career in the automotive industry and whose entrepreneurial spirit now sees him at the forefront of car subscription and connected car retailing. | 25 Sep 2022 | 01:37:55 | |
Nicolas is an expert in the rapidly emerging field of car subscription and connected car retailing. After spending his work life in big corporations working internationally, Nicolas moved into entrepreneurship 18 months ago. This was initially intended to be a temporary situation but it extended beyond his expectations, in terms of duration but mostly in terms of personal discovery and growth. A husband and father of two, Nicolas is widely enjoying his new lifestyle and discovering as he goes along what it means making the journey from employment to self employment. We discuss how young love played a part in him finding his way into the automotive industry, the incredible experiences he had as a result of connecting with locals in South Africa and the challenges he faced moving back to his home country of France. We also talk about his journey in recent years to be at the forefront of vehicle subscription and the current transformation that OEM, dealerships and car finance companies are going through. I'm delighted to be able to introduce Nicolas to you in this episode and look forward to hearing what resonates with you. If you enjoy listening to my guests career stories, please follow CAREER-VIEW MIRROR in your podcast app. You can contact Nicolas via LinkedIn Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed? This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fulfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. Adopting our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm helps you identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation. Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 23 September 2022 | |||
| Jonathan Whitby: on moving from Audi to Tesla, how a compelling mission drives engagement and developing his own business as a Sales Geek. | 18 Sep 2022 | 01:08:09 | |
Jon has spent all his working life in sales, most of it in the automotive sector. He was with the Audi network for 17 years. He started as a trainee sales exec and spent the last 10 years of his time there as a General Sales Manager for dealerships in and around Manchester in the North West of England. His role expanded as the business grew until he was ultimately responsible for the in-store sales operation in the UK/IE which consisted of 25 stores. In 2021 he decided to try to even the scales on his work/life balance and he bought a franchise from ‘Sales Geek’. He now provides a part-time sales director service and sales training to businesses predominately in Cheshire and North Staffordshire which he finds immensely rewarding. In our conversation we cover his sales journey from selling flowers on a market stall to selling £100k Teslas and running multiple stores. We talk about some of the differences between the approaches of traditional automotive brands and Tesla and how having a compelling mission affects the behaviour of people with an organisation. Jon is open and straight talking. He has had an interesting career journey that traverses the old and new worlds of automotive. I am pleased to be able to share his experiences with you in this episode. If you enjoy listening to my guests career stories, please follow CAREER-VIEW MIRROR in your podcast app. You can contact Jon via LinkedIn or email: jonathan.whitby@salesgeek.co.uk
Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed?
This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fulfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. Adopting our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm helps you identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation.
Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 9 September 2022 | |||
| Side Mirror: Crucible moments. Events that forge our character and influence our thoughts and actions, sometimes indefinitely. | 11 Sep 2022 | 00:17:14 | |
My guests are incredibly gracious in sharing their stories and demonstrating vulnerability in our conversations. I owe it to them to do the same. I shouldn’t ask them to share if I wouldn’t be prepared to share myself. At the same time, I wanted to talk about crucible moments and how they forge our character and influence our behaviour often subconsciously and sometimes indefinitely unless we seek to identify them. I wanted to prompt you to reflect on your own life journey and consider whether that’s been the case for you. This episode of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fulfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry. We use our very own Fulfilling Performance Paradigm to help you identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance in your business. I explain what we mean by Fulfilling Performance in Episode 60 of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR which is a short Side Mirror episode like this one. Contact me directly if you’d like to know more. My email is Andy@Aquilae.co.uk For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk
Episode recorded on 29 August 2022 | |||
| Side Mirror: LinkedIn for real people with Louise Brogan. | 28 Jul 2024 | 01:12:52 | |
In this episode I'm joined by Louise Brogan.
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| Shona Langridge: shares an international voyage of self discovery, from developing business across automotive, sports marketing and the charity sector to becoming the most complete version of herself practising and teaching yoga. | 04 Sep 2022 | 01:35:45 | |
After working in the corporate sector for nearly 30 years (in varying sales and marketing roles), Shona decided to take a completely different career path and step into the world of yoga. It took her a little while to navigate the transitions, but after 8 years of teaching yoga full time, she tells me that it feels completely natural to have taken that step change that combines a vocation with a passion. She teaches a variety of different yoga styles, including: bikram, vinyasa, yin, pilates and HIIT. She says, "We all have to start somewhere and there is never any ending to where Yoga can take you… I've come to believe that everything we do in our lives is some form of Yoga. There are always ways to grow and develop and this practice allows us to see ourselves as we truly are. It transcends the physical and marries together emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing." In our conversation we also talk about her corporate career journey that included a period with Rover Corporate Finance and Alphabet when that business was in its infancy. We talk about her time working for Alan Pascoe, the elite athlete, and other high flying international roles in sports marketing and, with this episode recorded in the week that the world mourns the passing of Mikhail Gorbachev, we hear a first hand account of Shona's personal encounter with the great man. Shona is a beautiful soul who has had a quite extraordinary career journey filled with experiences that can offer insights to us all. I am extremely proud and excited to be able to introduce her to you in this episode. And if, after getting to know Shona through our conversation, you want to do some yoga with her you can contact her at www.ShonaLangridge.yoga If you enjoy listening to my guests career stories, please follow CAREER-VIEW MIRROR in your podcast app. You can also contact Shona via LinkedIn Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed? This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fulfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. Adopting our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm helps you identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation. Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 1 September 2022 | |||
| Side Mirror: Don't quit your job until you've done this. | 28 Aug 2022 | 00:19:04 | |
With lots of people leaving roles, this episode covers how you might approach such a decision. I encourage people thinking of leaving a job to take a broad and measured view of the components that go to make up your current situation. Before you bet everything on a completely new set of circumstances, have a look at how you could keep all the best bits of your existing role whilst seeking to improve on the weaker components. This episode of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to Enable Fulfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry. We use our very own Fulfilling Performance Paradigm to help you identify what steps you need to take to Enable Fulfilling Performance in your business. Contact me directly if you’d like to know more. My email is Andy@Aquilae.co.uk For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 10 August 2022 | |||
| Stefan Dekker: Shaping the future of electricity and shaping the future of business culture. | 21 Aug 2022 | 01:32:08 | |
Stefan is the VP for New Markets for the Norwegian EV Charging start-up Easee. After spending the last 2,5 years setting up the Benelux market and building the foundations he is now part of a small team duplicating that effort and helping Easee expand further into Europe and beyond. Easee has two missions, Shaping the future of electricity and shaping the future of business culture. Growing up, Stefan always had the desire to explore and move outside the comfort of his small home town. After a few years figuring out what he wanted to do, his passion for cars lead him to working at Tesla. He was there in the early days of trying to explain why a car manufacturer had a showroom in a fancy shopping street in Amsterdam to delivering the first Model S in the UK. He took what started out as a frustration, how to deal with customer trade in vehicles and built it into a successful Used car & Remarketing program for the UK, combining the traditional car industry with the new ‘Tesla’ way of doing things. In our conversation we go into more detail about his journey so far, how he obtained the roles he's held, how he missed out on some others and how with the benefit of hindsight that was not necessarily a bad thing at all. Stefan is open and fun and shares his story with energy and passion. I'm grateful to him for creating his episode with me and I’m pleased to have this opportunity to introduce him to you in this way. As always, I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. If you enjoy listening to my guests career stories, please follow CAREER-VIEW MIRROR in your podcast app. You can contact Stefan via LinkedIn Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fulfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. Adopting our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm helps you identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation. Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 8 August 2022 | |||
| Ralf Zimmermann: a Kaizen evangelist and customer service enthusiast who has spent his career helping to transform automotive businesses. | 14 Aug 2022 | 01:32:20 | |
His passion for The Toyota Way, the Toyota production system and Kaizen evolved through multiple job rotations throughout Toyota during a 24 year tenure with the brand which included holding the position of General Manager Aftersales Operations at Toyota Motors Europe, General Manager Aftersales at Toyota Sweden and Regional Manager Sales and Aftersales at Toyota Deutschland. He has spent over eight years with Al Futtaim Group in Dubai, three years of which were in the role of Managing Director Al Futtaim Automotive. Ralf is currently in working in Doha in Qatar as Group Director of Aftersales for Jaidah Group. It was my absolute pleasure to talk with Ralf about his career. As you'll see he is an incredibly warm and friendly human being and very open and generous in sharing his experiences. As well as allowing me to question him about the unique methods and culture used to powerful effect at Toyota, he was equally happy to talk holistically about the role his wife has played in his journey and the impact on his family of their international life. I am excited to give you the opportunity to get to know Ralf through his episode and I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. If you enjoy listening to my guests career stories, please follow CAREER-VIEW MIRROR in your podcast app. You can contact Ralf via LinkedIn Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fulfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. Adopting our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm helps you identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation. Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 1 August 2022 | |||
| Julian Humphreys: Learning to knead then needing to learn with an auto finance industry veteran and co-founder of Maxxia and MOTOM. | 07 Aug 2022 | 01:04:06 | |
Julian is co-founder and CEO of MOTOM, a new technology company servicing the vehicle remarketing sector in the UK. MOTOM is a joint venture with Flipacar of Australia and with support from three close colleagues, Julian successfully launched the business earlier this year. He has a proven track record in the automotive, automotive finance and asset finance sectors, both in the UK and Europe but, as a school leaver, he decided to start his career in baking. At the age of 18 he began a 3-year spell learning professional b2b sales in the office equipment sector before his interest in cars led him to join Cowie Interleasing. He found early success in both new business and account management roles before becoming the youngest sales manager in the business at the age of 28 and building a high performing team. In 1999 the business was sold to GMAC where Julian enjoyed success in growing the business as head of sales to then take on the role of Managing Director, private label operations in 2005. In 2007 he complemented the MD role with the role of European sales development director. He left GM 2009, when they filed for bankruptcy protection and closed a number of businesses across Europe. He started an advisory business in 2010 and worked with a number of the world’s leading automotive brands. In 2013, Julian and a number of ex-colleagues co-founded Maxxia, an asset and vehicle finance business as a joint venture with MMS of Australia. For a time, Maxxia was the fastest growing asset finance business in the UK, scaling from zero originations to £600m per annum in 5 years. In December 2020, he and his co-founding colleagues sold their 50% shareholding to MMS and finally left the business in March 2021.
In our conversation we talk about his preference for learning by doing, those 3am starts at the bakery and the gradual discovery of his career path during those early years leading to a successful corporate career with GM and successful exit from the startup he co founded. We discuss the impact of professional sales training on his skills development, confidence and business results and how he made the transition from high performing contributor to leading a team of his peers. I found Julian easy to talk to and had fun exploring his story. I’m pleased to be able to share it with you and hope that you find it inspiring.
If you enjoy listening to my guests career stories, please follow CAREER-VIEW MIRROR in your podcast app. You can contact Julian via LinkedIn or at MOTOM Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed.
This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fulfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. Adopting our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm helps you identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation.
Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 29 July 2022 | |||
| Side Mirror: The Aquilae Academy Story. How guided peer mentoring enables fulfilling performance. | 31 Jul 2022 | 00:16:13 | |
This episode explains how with the help of an inspiring mentor, we created the Aquilae Academy and how it's possible to forge strong connection between people in a virtual environment as long as you are intentional about doing that. I hope that it encourages you to keep going and push boundaries in your own projects and reminds you how given the opportunity and the right environment, people love to help each other. This episode of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fulfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry. We use our very own Fulfilling Performance Paradigm to help you identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance in your business. Contact me directly if you’d like to know more. My email is Andy@Aquilae.co.uk For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 27 July 2022 | |||
| Side Mirror: The hidden costs of hybrid working. | 24 Jul 2022 | 00:18:12 | |
This episode urges some caution in adopting wholesale hybrid and remote working practices and encourages you to be intentional in your leadership and management decisions to enable Fulfilling Performance for all team members. I hope that you can use it to provoke a discussion about the transformation that is taking place and I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. This episode of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to Enable Fullfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry. We use our very own Fulfilling Performance Paradigm to help you identify what steps you need to take to Enable Fulfilling Performance in your business. Contact me directly if you’d like to know more. My email is Andy@Aquilae.co.uk For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 23 July 2022 | |||
| Ashley Harris: how scaling mountains in the Himalayas and deliveries at Tesla helped conquer the need for external validation. | 17 Jul 2022 | 01:43:31 | |
Ashley loves a challenge - it’s the intrinsic motivation for everything he takes on. From the physical and mental effort of ice climbing in the Himalayas as part of his Outdoor Leadership Degree, to his five years at Tesla working his way up to a position dealing directly with Elon Musk and ultimately leading Tesla’s European Delivery and Logistics Team in the launch of Model 3. Behind it all he has developed a passion for Operations in various guises in order to meet these challenges, enabling him to streamline organisations by optimising people, processes and systems. This passion is being put to good use in his current role as Operations Director at Clearview Imaging, an exciting globally expanding company of Machine Vision Experts looking to revolutionise automation over a wide range of industries. In our conversation he shares how failing to grasp the step up required to succeed at A level derailed his initial plans for further education and how it was almost by chance that he ended up at Enterprise rent a car where he picked up the knowledge and experience that would make him a valuable addition to the team at Tesla. We discuss his rapid progression through that business and Ashley describes some of the challenges he faced and the course corrections he made on the way. He also shares how he was motivated by the need to prove himself and relays the phone call that helped him to realise that he had finally done enough. Ashley is a wonderfully genuine and inspiring human being and I'm delighted to know him and to be able to introduce him to you in this episode. I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. If you enjoy listening to my guests' career stories, please follow CAREER-VIEW MIRROR in your podcast app. You can contact Ashley via LinkedIn. Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed.
Aquilae's mission is to enable Fullfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. Adopting our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm helps you identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation.
Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 27 June 2022 | |||
| Alan Harris: how cows, cars, curiosity and ambition led to a successful automotive career spanning multiple continents. | 10 Jul 2022 | 01:30:36 | |
Alan has enjoyed an international career with premium automotive brands, holding senior positions spanning 5 continents. Most recently he has embraced his passion of leadership development through his own successful coaching and consulting company. In our conversation Alan describes his childhood experiences growing up on a dairy farm where he first came across the machinery that would ignite a curiosity that led to him starting out as an apprentice car mechanic. He reveals how that curiosity combined with ambition eventually saw him agreeing to put down the spanners and embark on a geographical and career journey spanning the globe and leading to senior positions across the spectrum of an OEM's commercial functions. Alan shares with me the thinking behind the moves he made as he navigated his way around the world and through corporate life. If you enjoy listening to my guests career stories, please follow CAREER-VIEW MIRROR in your podcast app. You can contact Alan via LinkedIn or at Remarkables Coaching. Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fullfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. Adopting our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm helps you identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation. Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 23 June 2022 | |||
| Steve Whitmarsh : Land Rover's youngest ever production manager on building engines, relationships, and a fleet management business. | 03 Jul 2022 | 01:29:20 | |
Steve has a proven track record within the automotive industry in the UK. The youngest ever production manager with Land Rover – managing over 100 personnel at the age of 21, he made the jump from manufacturing to corporate sales for Rover Group in 1997 managing the leasing and independent rental sector in the North of the UK. In 2000, he made the move to Volvo Car UK Ltd as Southern Area Leasing and Rental Development Manager before a 2 year spell as National Sales Manager for an independent leasing company saw exponential growth with the business being ranked the 27thfastest growing company in the UK. Steve later moved to RAC heading up its Fleet & Commercial sector where he delivered a significant turnaround in profits and growth before founding Multifleet Vehicle Management in 2011 which trades as runyourfleet. Runyourfleet is now a multi award-winning company managing 30,000 vehicles across the UK on behalf of more than 1,200 businesses. It has its own unique customer platform developed in-house and is seeing significant growth across all services. In our conversation we talk about Steve's engineering apprenticeship at Rover Group his early success in the production environment and his transition to the commercial side of the business. He describes some very happy times along with some challenging times in a number of corporate roles with household name brands like Volvo and the RAC before sharing his story of another transition, this time into starting a fleet management company from scratch. Steve is a such a warm and friendly human being and I am delighted to be able to introduce him to you in this episode. I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. You can contact Steve via LinkedIn Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fullfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. Adopting our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm helps you identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation. Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 22 June 2022 | |||
| Stephanie May: Supporting and empowering women in the automotive industry through the Women Automotive Network | 22 Jul 2024 | 00:38:20 | |
Stephanie May is Commercial Director of the Women Automotive Network, a global community of 34,000+, whose mission is to support and empower women in the automotive industry. She is an advocate for diversity and inclusion in the automotive industry, and strongly believes in the power of working together for a better future. | |||
| Anirudh Kejriwal: From fashioning garments to fashioning leaders, learning from mentors and leading with compassion. | 26 Jun 2022 | 02:04:15 | |
Anirudh takes us on an international journey that sees him starting his own garment business in Mumbai, India before transitioning into a successful corporate career with BMW and then Centric Consulting. He shares the steps he took and the challenges he overcame on the way. Anirudh is an experienced professional having 25 years of experience in Automotive Finance and Consulting. He has vast international experience, having lived, and worked in 5 countries - USA, Malaysia, South Korea, Germany, and India over the last 20 years. He has extensive experience in IT services, project management, process improvement, sales and marketing, and strategy in the banking and finance, and insurance industries. Currently he is a Partner at Centric Consulting, an international management consulting firm with more than 1,400 experts in digital, technology and business consulting. He is responsible for the offshore development center in India. I'm grateful to him for joining me to create this episode and I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. If you enjoy listening to my guests career stories, please follow CAREER-VIEW MIRROR in your podcast app. You can contact Anirudh via LinkedIn Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed.
This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fullfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. Adopting our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm helps you identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation.
Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 20 and 21 June 2022 | |||
| David Woollcott: on transitioning industries, handling redundancy and how it's finally okay for leaders to be both commercially successful and kind. | 19 Jun 2022 | 01:14:45 | |
When he felt his career was on a plateau David took himself to Australia to maintain momentum and after several years finally returned home to the UK when the timing was right. On his journey, he experienced corporate and personal success, significant challenge in his home life and a shock redundancy, all of which he shares openly during our conversation. I am pleased to be able to introduce you to David in this episode and look forward to hearing what resonates with you. David is a globally experienced executive across the premium & luxury consumer goods and automotive industries in the UK, EU, Australia and New Zealand. He holds tertiary qualifications in both engineering (B.Eng, Bath) business management (ADP, London Business School) & (Adv Dip. Bus, Deakin University, Melbourne). He's a passionate advocate of organisational & team development, strategic & operational rigor, continual change and programs to optimise the consumer experience. He's fluent in German, a Member of the UK Institute of Directors (IOD), Board Member of AMDEA, and a British and Australian citizen. And he's the founder of a concept not-for-profit called SaddleUp! supporting people recently made redundant. If you enjoy listening to my guests career stories, please follow CAREER-VIEW MIRROR in your podcast app. You can contact David via Linked In Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed.
This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fullfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. Adopting our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm helps you identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation.
Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 13 June 2022 | |||
| Simon Warsop: the extrovert actuary on the sexiest job in the world and what retired people actually get up to. | 12 Jun 2022 | 01:29:44 | |
Simon has spent most of his life in the corporate world. He worked for Aviva for 30 years, leaving in February 2022 to set up his own pricing and data science consultancy business, Brightfathom. In his Aviva career, he spent the vast majority of his time pricing life insurance and general insurance business. His career breakthrough was introducing full credit score into the car insurance pricing journey. This ultimately led to him being the Chief Underwriting Officer for Personal Lines business and the Chair of Aviva Insurance Services Limited. Simon gets a huge sense of fulfillment from coaching, and wants to be remembered for helping people to achieve their life goals. Simon lives with his wife, two (young) adult children and three dogs. He spends a lot of his spare time maintaining, and occasionally managing to sail, his boat. His biggest claim to fame is turning down an invitation to have dinner with Elon Musk… Our conversation we talk about how he found his way into the insurance business, what he took out of his long career within it and his desire to give back. From his experience of retirement planning he shares some fascinating insights about what people aspire to when looking forward to retirement versus what people who have been retired a while tend to end up doing. Simon brings a lot of warmth and humanity to the topic of being an actuary and I am delighted to be able to introduce you to him in this way. I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. You can contact Simon via LinkedIn or via www.brightfathom.com Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed.
This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to Enable Fullfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. We use our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm to help you identify what steps you need to take to Enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation. Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 30 May 2022 | |||
| Ivor Johnson: the global fleet leader who leverages people skills to add value, doing what he loves and encouraging others to do the same. | 05 Jun 2022 | 01:33:37 | |
Ivor Johnson is the multi award winning Global Fleet Services Senior Director for Pfizer. He is responsible for above market policy, governance, strategy development and execution for 76 markets operating 14,000 cars and around 800 electric bikes He manages a global team of fleet professionals and is also responsible for the General Management of two captive leasing entities, one in the UK and one in Ireland. Prior to joining Pfizer, he co-founded and ultimately sold Fleet Logistics UK before moving into the role of Operations Director at Leasedrive Velo. His first fleet industry role was with Bristol Myers Squibb where he spent seven years ending up as the Associate Director, Global Strategic Sourcing. From double glazing to car sales is how Ivor describes his career journey. Whilst factually accurate, this summary does not do justice to the contribution he has made to the fleet management industry. In our conversation we go into more detail about the steps he took and the significant and highly transferable lessons he learned along the way. I am pleased to be able to introduce you to Ivor in this episode and look forward to hearing what resonates with you. You can contact Ivor via LinkedIn Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to Enable Fullfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. We use our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm to help you identify what steps you need to take to Enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation. Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 27 May 2022 | |||
| Dr. E. Ted Prince: a contrarian polymath, the father of behavioural business acumen and inventor of the only test that measures a CEO's potential impact on the valuation of the business they lead. | 29 May 2022 | 01:44:47 | |
Dr. E. Ted Prince is CEO and Founder of the Perth Leadership Institute, which has developed unique leadership assessments for financial leadership and business acumen. He is the author of The Three Financial Styles of Very Successful Leaders, published by McGraw Hill in 2005 and since published in China, India and Taiwan; Business Personality and Leadership Success: Using the Leadership Cockpit to Improve Your Career and Company Outcome published by Amazon Kindle in 2011 and by Ewin Books in Beijing in 2012; and How Founders Can Bring Success to the New Silicon Valley in China, New World Press, Beijing, (2016 English edition), published in Chinese 2018. He has over 300 publications in the area of leadership, management, human resources, business strategy and technology and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. He has held the positions of Visiting Lecturer at the University of Florida and Visiting Professor at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. In our conversation for Career-view Mirror, we talk about the effects of his challenging childhood and how the paradigms instilled in his early years turned him into a voracious learner once he finally got the opportunity. A PhD himself, he has strong views about academia in particular its relevance to business and leadership education which I think you'll find thought provoking and direct. Ted describes himself as a contrarian i.e. a person who opposes or rejects popular opinion. This makes him an entertaining conversation partner. I'm pleased to be able to introduce you to him in this episode and I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. You can contact Ted via LinkedIn or via email: etedprince@perthleadership.org Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to Enable Fullfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. We use our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm to help you identify what steps you need to take to Enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation. Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 24 May 2022 | |||
| Anthony Rebesco: the founder of Ecosmart who puts his people first to deliver customer outcomes that are second to none. | 22 May 2022 | 01:20:09 | |
Anthony is the Managing Director and Founder of Ecosmart Group in Melbourne Australia. Since launching in 1991, Ecosmart Plumbing & Drainage has developed a strong reputation for consistent delivery of reliable, quality plumbing and drainage services. Ecosmart's strength is its highly skilled staff who are committed to the success of their clients projects, backed by the highest quality procedures developed across 1,000’s of successful jobs. As well as Plumbing Services, Ecosmart are Builders and Developers who pride themselves on their comprehensive understanding of volume building processes and are committed to growing their partners businesses. Anthony is an entrepreneur with an incredible passion for nurturing and growing people. I have been working with Anthony and his team for a while now and I was so struck by the way they operate that I asked him to join me to talk about his career journey and the business he has developed. Our conversation covers his early years growing up and his ambitions to become a professional cyclist which ended abruptly and prematurely. We talk about the very tough early years of building the business and the point when he almost gave up. Anthony shares the focus on people, purpose and values that make Ecosmart what it is and make me very proud to introduce you to him and his approach. I look forward to hearing what resonates with you.
You can contact Anthony via email: anthony@ecosmartgroup.com.au Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fullfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. We use our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm to help you identify what steps you need to take to enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk for a no obligation conversation about your situation.
Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 16 May 2022 | |||
| Michael Goode: demonstrating a passion for people and customer service throughout a multi-national, multi-cultural and multi-franchise journey. | 15 May 2022 | 01:42:01 | |
Michael is an automotive industry veteran with over 35 years’ experience at manufacturer, distributor and dealer level in a number of different markets including the UK, Singapore, Thailand, New Zealand and the Kingdom of Bahrain. His brand exposure covers BMW, MINI, Toyota, Lexus and more recently multi-franchise service centres. Currently he is Senior General Manager, Aftersales for Ebrahim Khalil Kanoo in Bahrain with a multi-cultural workforce of nearly 700 members operating in 10 different locations with an annual turnover in excess of 45,000,000 pounds. A passionate advocate for customer service and a champion of developing people, his team have won multiple awards from Toyota and external parties for their work in talent management, skills development, quality standards and customer satisfaction. In our conversation we cover Michael’s global career journey and discuss the motivation behind each move and the associated decisions. I am pleased to have this chance to introduce you to Michael in this way and look forward to hearing what resonates with you. You can contact Michael via LinkedIn Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to Enable Fullfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry, internationally. We use our Fulfilling Performance Paradigm to help you identify what steps you need to take to Enable Fulfilling Performance for yourself, your team and your business. Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 12 May 2022 | |||
| Side Mirror: The Great Resignation? Sharing my experience of leaving a corporate career to focus on a personal mission. | 08 May 2022 | 00:16:09 | |
This episode follows on from our three Side Mirrors on Fulfilling Performance and explains some of the thinking behind the changes I had to make to get myself into a position from which I could focus on my mission to Enable Fulfilling Performance through Aquilae. I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. This episode of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR is brought to you by Aquilae. For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 7 May 2022 | |||
| Side Mirror: Fulfilling Performance 3 - How to apply the Fulfilling Performance Framework. | 01 May 2022 | 00:14:22 | |
This episode is part of a series of Side Mirrors focusing on the origin story of Aquilae's vision of Fulfilling Performance. I share where the idea came from and how it informs Aquilae's mission of Enabling Fulfilling Performance. I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. This episode of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae's mission is to enable Fulfilling Performance in the auto finance and mobility industry. We use our Fulfilling Performance framework to help you identify what steps you need to take to realise Fulfilling Performance in your business. Contact me directly if you’d like to know more.
For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk
Episode recorded on 30 April 2022 | |||
| Side Mirror: Fulfilling Performance 2 - Reflecting on your experience of Fulfilling Performance in your own career. | 24 Apr 2022 | 00:09:26 | |
This episode is part of a series of Side Mirrors focusing on the origin story of Aquilae's vision of Fulfilling Performance. I share where the idea came from and how it informs Aquilae's mission of Enabling Fulfilling Performance. I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. This episode of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae is a Performance Management consultancy in the auto finance and mobility industry. We use our proprietary performance management diagnostic to help you identify what steps you need to take to realise Fulfilling Performance in your business. Contact me directly if you’d like to know more. For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk | |||
| Side Mirror: Find your element | 14 Jul 2024 | 00:20:21 | |
In this episode I talk about how I began to transition very deliberately and intentionally from being in what was already a very good place career wise to now being in my element. | |||
| Side Mirror: Fulfilling Performance 1 - The origin story of Aquilae’s vision and mission. | 17 Apr 2022 | 00:15:30 | |
This episode focuses on the origin story of Aquilae's vision of Fulfilling Performance. I share where the idea came from and how it informs Aquilae's mission of Enabling Fulfilling Performance. I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. This episode of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae is a Performance Management consultancy in the auto finance and mobility industry. We use our proprietary Performance Management diagnostic to help you identify what steps you need to take to realise Fulfilling Performance in your business. Contact me directly if you’d like to know more.
For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Episode recorded on 14 April 2022
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| Ian R. Smith: how attention to detail and a focus on relationships led to representing super luxury brands and connecting with ultra high net worth individuals (UHNWIs). | 10 Apr 2022 | 01:18:42 | |
Ian has 40 years experience in the automotive industry in retail and corporate sales working across mainstream and premium brands. In the last decade he's made a name for himself in the super luxury segment taking care of Rolls Royce and McLaren private clients around the world. His network of High Net Worth contacts have encouraged him to expand his reach across other luxury goods and now as the owner of luxury goods consultancy Carsmith, he will happily help you find the luxury, car, watch, plane or yacht of your dreams! In our conversation we track his journey from occasionally sleeping in the footwell of one of his dad's haulage lorries to spending three months in Porto Cervo, Sardinia on the superyacht superhighway connecting with yacht owners and introducing them to Rolls Royce. I am pleased to be able to introduce you to Ian via this conversation and hope that you enjoy getting to know his story. I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. You can contact Ian via email: ian@carsmith.co.uk
Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. To help you navigate the content we've separated it into chapters which work on Apple Podcasts and certain other streaming platforms. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae is a boutique consultancy in the auto finance and mobility industry. We offer our Expertise as a Service to help you design and deliver projects that develop your business and the people within it. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk if you’d like to know more. If you enjoyed this podcast please take a moment to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback helps us grow. For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Twitter: @andyfollows Episode recorded on 25 March 2022 | |||
| James Harper: finally finding fulfilment after his desire to fit in informed early choices and increasing success almost tipped him over the edge. | 03 Apr 2022 | 01:14:25 | |
James has worked for over 40 years in the people performance area of organisations. He has lectured on University Masters Programs, facilitated workshops, delivered skills training and carried out senior executive coaching. He has held senior corporate roles and worked as a consultant in Australia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East In our conversation we talk about his childhood and education in Hong Kong and Indiana, the evolution of his professional career, the stresses that almost brought him down and how, he navigated his way through a prolonged difficult period and with help emerged into an exciting new international phase of his career. As you'll hear, James has had a fascinating journey and he shares his story openly and authentically. It is my pleasure to introduce him to you in this way. I look forward to hearing what resonates with you.
You can contact James via LinkedIn or email: james@jharper.com.au
Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. To help you navigate the content we've separated it into chapters which work on Apple Podcasts and certain other streaming platforms. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae is a boutique consultancy in the auto finance and mobility industry. We offer our Expertise as a Service to help you design and deliver projects that develop your business and the people within it. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk if you’d like to know more. If you enjoyed this podcast please take a moment to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback helps us grow. For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Twitter: @andyfollows Episode recorded on 16 March 2022 | |||
| Karl Anders: how a near death experience and early exposure to selling EVs helped define his purpose as a champion of electrification. | 27 Mar 2022 | 01:25:12 | |
Karl is leading on External and Government Affairs for Compleo Charging Solutions UK, and is also the Managing Director of EV consultancy Defcon27 Limited. Karl was the CEO, board director and founder of innogy eMobility UK, the E.ON owned subsidiary that specialized in supplying advanced electric vehicle charging hardware and software technology from 2018 up until the company was purchased by Compleo in December 2021 and renamed. Karl joined innogy eMobility from Nissan GB, where he held the role of National EV Manager – Corporate Sales. He has previously held positions with the Energy Saving Trust and General Motors and has been in the automotive industry for 30 years in the UK and overseas. In our conversation we talk about his entry into and progression through the automotive industry, his relatively early exposure to Electric vehicles and how they became a focus for him and in one role at least provided a differentiator and a key sense of purpose for the team he was leading. I'm pleased to be able to introduce you to Karl as one of the early champions of our transition to electrification and look forward to hearing what resonates with you. You can contact Karl via LinkedIn
Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed.
This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae is a boutique consultancy in the auto finance and mobility industry. We offer our Expertise as a Service to help you design and deliver projects that develop your business and the people within it. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk if you’d like to know more. If you enjoyed this podcast please take a moment to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback helps us grow. For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Twitter: @andyfollows Episode recorded on 14 March 2022 | |||
| Declan Gaule: from boom to bust and hopefully boom again! The role luck plays in success and the importance of family and friends when the going gets tough. | 21 Mar 2022 | 01:46:52 | |
Declan started his automotive career on the graduate scheme with BMW UK working in training, marketing and sales before leaving to form the training company MFG in 2007. MFG specialised in helping OEMs and dealers in over 30 Global markets to drive footfall and sales through the generation of professional customer appointments via the telephone. In our conversation Declan shares how he navigated his way into and then out of BMW U.K. and lays bare the ups and downs he experienced building an international business. You’ll hear how all was going very nicely until COVID and the semi-conductor crises hit… All my guests bring unique stories. I’m particular grateful to Declan for giving me this opportunity to share his story and I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. You can contact Declan via LinkedIn or email: declangaule@icloud.com Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae is a boutique consultancy in the auto finance and mobility industry. We offer our Expertise as a Service to help you design and deliver projects that develop your business and the people within it. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk if you’d like to know more. If you enjoyed this podcast please take a moment to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback helps us grow. For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Twitter: @andyfollows Episode recorded on 11 March 2022 | |||
| Greg Hedgepeth: on traversing the globe and the worlds of advertising and automotive, constantly seeking to become more rounded and recognising the role of luck. | 14 Mar 2022 | 01:28:10 | |
Greg is the CEO of Turners Auto Retail Division in New Zealand. Turners is an iconic New Zealand brand that’s been proudly helping Kiwis buy & sell vehicles and equipment since 1967. With over 30 branches nationwide, Turners Group NZ Ltd is the largest seller of cars, trucks & machinery in NZ. Greg has over 15 years experience in agency and corporate environments gained in roles in New Zealand, UK and USA. He has successfully operated across a number of industry categories including Automotive, Media, FMCG, Travel, and Financial Services. He has a proven track record in strategic brand development, development of high performing teams, and delivering positive bottom line results. As you'll hear in our conversation, he is passionate about driving staff engagement and enhanced customer experience. We talk about the fun he had getting the travel bug out of his system before he settled down to a career in advertising, how that was such a good fit for him before he transitioned into automotive where he has remained ever since, I hope you enjoy listening to Greg's story and that you identify elements that resonate with you. You can contact Greg via LinkedIn Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae is a boutique consultancy in the auto finance and mobility industry. We offer our Expertise as a Service to help you design and deliver projects that develop your business and the people within it. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk if you’d like to know more. If you enjoyed this podcast please take a moment to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback helps us grow. For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Twitter: @andyfollows Episode recorded on 7 March 2022 | |||
| Jon Burdekin: an expert on the adoption of EVs into fleets who puts customers first, maintains a balanced life and serves your eggs how you like them. | 07 Mar 2022 | 01:15:47 | |
Jon has 30 years’ experience in the UK leasing and fleet finance industry, having previously worked for such major leasing companies as Alphabet GB Ltd and GE Capital Fleet Services. His 15 year career with Alphabet incorporated roles as Account Manager, Head of Account Management, Head of Consulting Services and Head of Product Management as well as leading the consultancy division to add key value differentiation and technical innovation. Client relationships that Jon had direct responsibility for included McDonald’s, Shell, Oracle, Royal and Sun Alliance, Royal London Mutual Assurance and the BBC. By managing such large vehicle fleets, he has gained extensive knowledge in all aspects of fleet management, including vehicle acquisition methods, cost control, driver risk, and vehicle choice list analysis. A subject matter expert in the adoption of electric vehicles into company fleets, Jon also has deep levels of knowledge in the tax efficient alternatives to company vehicle funding and Grey Fleet Management. Jon has run his own fleet consultancy business since January 2019 with the aim of helping businesses manage their vehicle fleets more effectively and futureproofing the fleet by implementing the transition to 100% electric by 2030 I’ve known Jon for many years and had the pleasure to work with him at Alphabet. I’ve seen him in action. He is exceptional at being the voice of the customer in the business and practises what he preaches when it comes to preparation and professional account management. I’m pleased to be able to introduce Jon to you in this episode and I look forward to hearing what resonates with you.
You can contact Jon via LinkedIn or email: jon@jbfleetconsulting.co.uk
Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. To help you navigate the content we've separated it into chapters which work on Apple Podcasts and certain other streaming platforms. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae is a boutique consultancy in the auto finance and mobility industry. We offer our Expertise as a Service to help you design and deliver projects that develop your business and the people within it. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk if you’d like to know more. If you enjoyed this podcast please take a moment to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback helps us grow. For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Twitter: @andyfollows Episode recorded on 18 February 2022 | |||
| Side Mirror: CAREER-VIEW MIRROR turns 1 | 28 Feb 2022 | 00:58:33 | |
We published our first weekly episode on Monday 1 March 2021 and published episode 52 on 21 February 2022. We thought we’d take advantage of the additional “bonus” Monday available to us before our first anniversary to reflect on our journey and share some of our memories. We quickly settled into a format for the podcast, we find out where my guest is coming to us from, we go back to their birthplace and we accompany them on a reflective journey from their earliest memories until the present day. We pay attention to their early years experiences; their family situation, their memories of school, the roles they had visibility of whilst growing up, and the level of clarity they had about the direction they wanted to take. We dive into the choices they made, the influencers, the lucky breaks and the mistakes. We sit alongside them as they revisit the more challenging phases of their journeys. We respect them, we appreciate them for sharing their stories and we celebrate their careers to date. We don’t ask them to teach us, we give them space to tell it as it was from their perspective and we let the elements that resonate with us do just that. Learning from experience is powerful. Learning from others experience is a gift. Some of my guests have achieved the job titles, the pay grades, the staff count and the airmiles that easily mark them out as successful in one widely accepted corporate sense of the word. Others have gained deep sector expertise and progressed as technical specialists. Some have been launched onto their trajectory off the back of a privileged upbringing others have navigated their way out of more challenging environments. All of them have a story to tell and all their stories contain golden nuggets of transferable experience that we can reflect on and learn from. One of our listeners, Mike W in Japan described Career-view Mirror as an automotive podcast that's about humans not machines. I am grateful for the humanity and humility demonstrated by my guests. The openness they bring to our conversations is what makes them engaging to listen to. Their humility enables us to receive what they are sharing with us and potentially learn from it. To help you navigate the content we've separated it into chapters which work on Apple Podcasts and certain other streaming platforms. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae is a boutique consultancy in the auto finance and mobility industry. We offer our Expertise as a Service to help you design and deliver projects that develop your business and the people within it. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk if you’d like to know more. If you enjoyed this podcast please take a moment to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback helps us grow. For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Twitter: @andyfollows | |||
| Amira Aly: on her inspiring journey from Egypt’s Alexandria to Atlanta and Arizona in the US, continuously learning in premium retail, banking and automotive and finally finding her purpose was closer than she’d first imagined. | 21 Feb 2022 | 01:26:24 | |
Amira is an Executive leader in Automotive and Financial Services with a focus on the luxury and ultra luxury segment, serving OEMs such as Lucid Motors, Aston Martin and Jaguar Land Rover. She’s an expert in business operations and planning, financial products, branding, marketing and remarketing. She’s known for launching automotive startups and new partnerships and building impactful sales, credit and operation teams. Amira is a collaborator, a disrupter and an empathic leader. In our conversation we talk about Amira’s childhood in Egypt and her having to take on responsibility at an early age, her sudden move to the US and having to finding her feet in a new country and the unfolding story of her career, starting in premium retail before moving into banking and then into automotive finance. I loved listening to Amira’s story and I am delighted to be able to introduce you to her in this way. I look forward to hearing which elements resonate with you. You can contact Amira via LinkedIn To help you navigate the content we've separated it into chapters which work on Apple Podcasts and certain other streaming platforms. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae is a boutique consultancy in the auto finance and mobility industry. We offer our Expertise as a Service to help you design and deliver projects that develop your business and the people within it. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk if you’d like to know more. If you enjoyed this podcast please take a moment to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback helps us grow. For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Twitter: @andyfollows Episode recorded on 28 January 2022 | |||
| Jason Broome: a petrolhead on curiosity and how a chance meeting in Sri Lanka fuelled a 22-year international career. | 14 Feb 2022 | 01:28:44 | |
Jason started his automotive career at the entry level as an apprentice mechanic and has worked his way up to the extent that he’s experienced success in multiple international Managing Director positions working with premium brands including Rolls Royce, Porsche, Ferrari, Bentley, Lamborghini and BMW. In our conversation, you'll hear how his curiosity, competitive nature and openness to learn new skills and adapt to change have enabled him to lead teams to success in multiple countries across the globe. I hope you enjoy meeting Jason in this way and I look forward to hearing which elements of his story resonate with you. You can contact Jason via LinkedIn and you can follow him on Instagram. Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. To help you navigate the content we've separated it into chapters which work on Apple Podcasts and certain other streaming platforms. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae is a boutique consultancy in the auto finance and mobility industry. We offer our Expertise as a Service to help you design and deliver projects that develop your business and the people within it. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk if you’d like to know more. If you enjoyed this podcast please take a moment to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback helps us grow. For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Twitter: @andyfollows Episode recorded on 24 January 2022
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| Side Mirror: Leverage one to ones to enable Fulfilling Performance | 07 Jul 2024 | 00:13:47 | |
In this Side Mirror I address the topic of one to ones and demonstrate how by looking at them through the lens of Fulfilling Performance we can make them valuable and effective for the individual, their manager and the organisation which is, let’s not forget, paying their salaries. | |||
| Ed Eppley: on breaking limits, creating environments to unleash potential and the power of curiosity on influencing customers. | 07 Feb 2022 | 01:37:48 | |
Ed is a leading global expert in professional management, sales strategy, and performance management. He is a former principal consultant for the Table Group, a Patrick Lencioni Company, and operates The Eppley Group. He has worked with executive teams at multinational companies across the U.S., Europe, China, Japan, and Australia. His clients include a “Who’s Who” of business category leaders such as BMW, DSW, Sara Lee, Bloomberg, Battelle, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Speedway, Steamboat Ski & Resort Company, Value City Furniture, PSA Airlines, Emerson Electric, NECCO, Safelite Auto Glass, and others. A life-long entrepreneur, Ed started an advertising agency and a manufacturer’s rep firm selling to the industrial and construction markets before creating Tyson Eppley Management, ProspeX, and The Eppley Group. If you want to benefit more from Ed’s wisdom, clarity and straight talking professional management advice you can get his book, “Let’s Be Clear” from Amazon and you can listen to his podcast, The Ed Eppley Experience wherever you listen to your podcasts.
This is the 50th episode of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR and I wanted to celebrate this milestone by introducing you to a guest who is very special to me and who has had a significant impact on my own development, career and life journey. I first met Ed in 2006 in South Africa when he was facilitating an international leadership development programme that I was attending as part of my integration into my new region at BMW. Ever since meeting him he has been challenging me in his inimitable way to become the best version of myself. For that I am hugely grateful. It is an honour, a privilege and a huge pleasure to be able to introduce Ed to you in this way and to invite him to share his inspiring story. As always, I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. You can contact Ed via LinkedIn or via email: ed@theeppleygroup.com Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. To help you navigate the content we've separated it into chapters which work on Apple Podcasts and certain other streaming platforms. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae is a boutique consultancy in the auto finance and mobility industry. We offer our Expertise as a Service to help you design and deliver projects that develop your business and the people within it. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk if you’d like to know more. If you enjoyed this podcast please take a moment to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback helps us grow. For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Twitter: @andyfollows Episode recorded on 17 January 2022 | |||
| Rupert Pontin: from selling cars outside his house as a teen, to the forefront of used car innovation, with some iconic UK motor trade brands in between! | 31 Jan 2022 | 01:27:08 | |
Rupert is Head of Data Communications at Cazoo and Deputy Chair of the UK’s Vehicle Remarketing Association. He’s an industry expert and business leader with over 35 years experience in all areas of the UK and European automotive market. He specifically enjoys driving change to maximise digital footprint and data excellence, with a focus on the identification of new exciting and profitable commercial opportunities. As a free-thinking disruptor, he finds it highly rewarding to challenge traditional and current processes and seek to push best practice to new levels. In our conversation he shares the ups and downs of the route he’s taken, from buying and selling cars as a teenager to now being at the forefront of innovation in the UK’s used car market. I hope you enjoy getting to know Rupert in this way and look forward to hearing what elements of his story resonate with you. To help you navigate the content we've separated it into chapters which work on Apple Podcasts and certain other streaming platforms. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae is a boutique consultancy in the auto finance and mobility industry. We offer our Expertise as a Service to help you design and deliver projects that develop your business and the people within it. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk if you’d like to know more. If you enjoyed this podcast please take a moment to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback helps us grow. For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Twitter: @andyfollows Episode recorded on 21 January 2022 | |||
| David Watts: on happy customers and asking yourself "is an EV right for me?" | 24 Jan 2022 | 02:01:24 | |
David is the Commercial Manager (UK & Ireland) for Arrival Automotive UK. He is an experienced fleet industry professional specialising in safe, green and efficient fleet management having worked across the fleet industry for 25 years with several different leasing and daily rental companies as well as the Energy Saving Trust (EST) and Zurich Insurance. Over the last 15 years as a Fleet Consultant, David has helped hundreds of organisations develop robust environmental fleet strategies to support carbon reduction objectives including the effective transition to and adoption of plug-in vehicles. Now working for the new electric vehicle manufacturer, Arrival Automotive, David has been at the forefront of fleet electrification for the last 15 years having originally developed the Plugged in Fleets Initiative whilst at the Energy Saving Trust for the UK Department for Transport and the Office for Low Emission Vehicles. As well as being a member of the EV working group for the British Vehicle and Rental Association and the EV committee for the Association of Fleet Professionals, David is a regular speaker at fleet industry events on electric vehicles, the highlight of which was his invitation to speak at the Oxford International EV Summit in 2019. In our conversation we talk about how a career in automotive was most definitely not his first choice, feeling that something was missing in his career and finally discovering it and how through a series of moves he now finds himself operating at the forefront of sustainable mobility. I hope you enjoy getting to know David in this way and hearing his career story. As always I look forward to hearing what resonates with you. Why not follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror where you can see a directory of all our episodes and comment on those you have enjoyed. To help you navigate the content we've separated it into chapters which work on Apple Podcasts and certain other streaming platforms. This episode of Career-view Mirror is brought to you by Aquilae. Aquilae is a boutique consultancy in the auto finance and mobility industry. We offer our Expertise as a Service to help you design and deliver projects that develop your business and the people within it. Contact cvm@aquilae.co.uk if you’d like to know more. If you enjoyed this podcast please take a moment to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback helps us grow. For details of our forthcoming guests follow us on Instagram @careerviewmirror Email: cvm@aquilae.co.uk Twitter: @andyfollows Episode recorded on 7 January 2022 | |||