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.  You can contact John via LinkedIn or email: [email protected]   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 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: [email protected]  Episode recorded on 17 October, 2022