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CAREER-VIEW MIRROR - biographies of colleagues in the automotive and mobility industries.

CAREER-VIEW MIRROR offers career lessons from the experiences of senior leaders and rising stars in the exciting global automotive industry. Aquilae"s Managing Director, Andy Follows, hosts candid conversations, reflecting on their career journeys to help you with yours.

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73:41

Side Mirror: CAREER-VIEW MIRROR Turns 4

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2025/03/03

On 1 March CAREER-VIEW MIRROR celebrated its fourth anniversary. We published our first episode on 1 March 2021 and have continued to publish every Monday since then. This is episode 210. We have made it a tradition to celebrate these anniversaries with a Side Mirror episode featuring stories from a range of guests throughout the year. We are doing that again this year and I am excited to share these extracts with you. I hope you enjoy them and if you haven't already done so...

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11:01

Side Mirror: Lily pads and gangplanks (Part 2)

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2025/02/24

This is part two of an episode called Lilypads and gangplanks which is about how we can navigate our careers in a controlled way by developing ourselves in the direction of our strengths. In doing so we grow our capability towards our next role, extending a virtual gangplank rather than leaping frog like towards a potential opportunity or lily pad. In Part 1 I shared an exercise to help you identify those aspects of your current role that you find fulfilling along with those that ...

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12:58

Side Mirror: Lily pads and gangplanks (Part 1)

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2025/02/17

The title of this episode is Lily pads and gangplanks and I feel I ought to explain it. It seems to me that sometimes when we are considering our next career move we adopt a perspective that I imagine may be similar to that of a frog. We are sitting on one lily pad, that is our current role and we spy another more attractive looking lily pad some way away. We decide to make a leap for it and sometimes we make it and have a good landing and sometimes we miss and land in the water. An alt...

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15:39

Side Mirror: Self promotion for Fulfilling Performance

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2025/02/10

In this episode, I talk about the not always popular topic of self promotion. If the mere idea makes your toes curl, please keep listening. I’m going to offer you a way of looking at self promotion that I hope will help you to do it authentically and comfortably so that you can benefit from the opportunities that it can unlock for you. About Andy I'm an experienced business leader and a passionate developer of people in the automotive finance industry, internationally. During over twenty fi...

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15:40

Side Mirror: Networking for Fulfilling Performance

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2025/02/03

Our network can have a big impact on our ability to succeed but it’s a word and a topic that elicits mixed, often negative reactions. If you’re not a big fan of networking or you don’t mind it and would like to become more intentional, I invite you to listen in as I demonstrate how we can use the Guiding Principles of Fulfilling Performance to steer the way we approach networking to make it rewarding and even enjoyable for you and those you are developing relationships with. About Andy I'm a...

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69:56

Mike Nakrani: From subsistence living in India to...

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2025/01/27

In this episode, we are celebrating the career to date of Mike Nakrani.Mike is the Chief Executive Officer of VEV, the innovative e-fleet solutions provider backed by energy sector leader Vitol. With over two decades of experience in the mobility sector, Mike has navigated pivotal roles at Ford and BP, combining his expertise in sustainable transportation and energy transition with an entrepreneurial mindset.Mike’s story begins in a small village in India, where his family lived a subsistence...

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13:49

Side Mirror: Releasing Handbrakes - The Opportunity...

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2025/01/20

Do you ever look back on things you did earlier in your career and cringe with embarrassment?I have many examples that pop into my head from time to time. Fortunately, I’ve learned to be kind to myself and to forgive younger me for the jaw-dropping lack of experience and awareness I displayed on occasion. I’ve since reframed these excruciating memories as reassuring evidence of my ability to grow. I wouldn’t cringe about them if I hadn’t learned how wrong they were, would I?In this episode, I...

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67:59

Preeti Dwivedi: Passionate about transforming careers...

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2025/01/13

In this episode, we are celebrating the career to date of Preeti Dwivedi.Preeti is passionate about transforming careers and empowering individuals to achieve their true potential.She's an experienced HR professional turned 'career and leadership' coach and trainer, bringing over 17 years of experience across various companies and roles in APAC, Europe, and the UK. Preeti specialises in building talent, leadership development, learning & development (L&D) & Organisational de...

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11:56

Side Mirror: B.I.G. Iain and the Russian Dolls - Part 2

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2025/01/06

Ten years ago, almost to the day, I landed back in the UK from New Zealand. Looking back, it’s easy to simplify things with hindsight, but that moment marked the start of a significant transformation for me. I had begun the process of self-actualization.As Daniel Pink articulated in Drive, we’re driven by autonomy, mastery, and meaningful work. For me, those drivers align perfectly with the BIGR framework: belief, intentionality, a growth mindset, and repetition. That’s what has helped me gro...

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9:03

Side Mirror: B.I.G. Iain and the Russian Dolls - Part 1

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2024/12/30

Back in 2006, I accepted a role within BMW Group that required moving my family from the UK to Singapore. My wife and I have two children who at the time, were aged 10 and 6.In the weeks leading up to our move, I often found myself explaining the decision to colleagues: I'd say, “I felt I needed to get out of my comfort zone.”Fast forward to early 2007, and there I was in my new office in Singapore, surrounded by unfamiliar faces, trying to figure out how things worked—and feeling very uncomf...

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22:42

Side Mirror: Tips from the Top of the World with...

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2024/12/23

"Creating and nurturing a high-performing culture at the North Pole is one of my most important responsibilities as a leader. I use the principles of Fulfilling Performance to make sure my diverse team of elves, reindeer, and magical creatures not only excel at work but also thrive as individuals. Here’s how I do it…"We wanted a big name for this, our 200th Episode of CAREER-VIEW MIRROR, and when we realised that it was scheduled to be published on 23rd December, we knew exactly who that big ...

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67:25

Matthew Pretorius: a man with a plan and a backpack...

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2024/12/16

In this episode we are celebrating the career to date of Matthew Pretorius.Matt heads up the business and fleet sales channel at Electroverse, part of Octopus Energy here in the UK. He is starting this channel from the ground up and looking to expand it in the coming months.South African born Matt has been living in the UK for the last 20 years. He finished up his last two years of school in the UK before starting his career here and putting himself through University at a later date. He got ...

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13:23

Side Mirror: Finding the formula for Fulfilling...

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2024/12/09

In last week's Side Mirror episode "Produce results and grow the people", I talked about a significant experience during my leadership journey that took place in November 2006 when I was fortunate enough to participate in a leadership programme led by Ed Eppley.I suggested why as managers we need to not only produce results but also grow the people and shared a formula Skill x Effort = Results that demonstrated one of the ways we can grow our people so that they can produce more without havin...

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10:19

Side Mirror: Produce results and grow the people.

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2024/12/02

In January 2007 I started a new role within BMW Financial Services which meant moving from the UK to the Asia Pacific regional office in Singapore. A few weeks before I moved I was invited to join a management training course with colleagues from my new region.It was held on a Private Game Reserve in South Africa. The location and the experience were memorable and so was the content of the programme.In this Side Mirror episode I share some of what I learned during that week. I took away learn...

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Duncan Forrester: brings his unique experience to...

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2024/11/25

In this episode we are celebrating the career to date of Duncan Forrester.Duncan is a globally experienced Chief Marketing and Communications Officer and consultant who’s worked with many of the automotive industry’s most famous brands. He cut his teeth at BMW and Volvo in the UK, before being appointed as the global head of Product and Brand Communication for Volvo Cars in Sweden, soon after the Geely acquisition, and relaunching the Volvo brand with the then all-new XC90 and the other model...

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Agustina Garcia: An engineer who is passionate about...

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2024/11/18

In this episode we are celebrating the career to date of Agustina Garcia.Agustina leads a team at BMW dedicated to integrating modular systems into future cars. She has a fascination for technology and communication and believes communication is the key for success in projects and relationships. Her favourite sentence in her company is “Be hard on the process and fair to the people.” And she takes inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi’s saying, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” In our c...

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13:03

Side Mirror: Time Management III - Equip yourself and...

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2024/11/11

This is the third of three episodes about how the Guiding Principles of Fulfilling Performance can help us to manage our time or as I prefer to describe it, live our lives intentionally and deliberately.In the first episode I shared some paradigms or ways of looking at our lives that can support us to be more effective in taking ownership of the journey we are on. The second episode focused on how the first two Guiding Principles: Know why and Be clear can help us to invest our time wisely in...

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19:57

Side Mirror: Time Management II - Know why and Be clear

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2024/11/04

Last week I published the first in this series of Side Mirror episodes about Time Management. It wasn’t my first choice title for this topic but I called it that so it would be as easy as possible to find for people who are looking for help managing their time. After all, they’re busy people.In the first episode I shared some paradigms or ways of looking at our lives that can support us to be more effective in taking ownership of the journey we are on. This episode focuses on how the first tw...

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17:20

Side Mirror: Time Management

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2024/10/28

In a recent Aquilae Academy peer mentoring session, team members were discussing how leaders can make time for themselves to do what the author Cal Newport calls "Deep work" when it seems that as soon as they walk through the door everyone wants to speak to them.On a call with a woman I am mentoring, she asked how can I manage all the demands on me without becoming stressed and overwhelmed. When I launched our Fulfilling Performance newsletter, Release the handbrake! on Substack, a couple of ...

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59:04

Side Mirror: Amy Rowlinson, empowering people to...

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2024/10/20

The expert I've invited to join me in this episode is Amy Rowlinson.Shining a light on what is possible when you focus on why, Amy Rowlinson empowers people to forge their own path to create a purposeful, sustainable and fulfilling way of life.As a life purpose coach, podcast strategist and podcaster, Amy's chosen mission is to gift a living legacy of inspiration, insight and knowledge and create long-lasting, positive ripple effects.On her podcast, Focus on WHY, Amy provides uplifting and re...

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