Jan Griffiths grew up on a farm in Wales and was supposed to stay there.

Instead, she left at 23 with no real plan and spent the next three decades building a career in automotive, working her way from a temp role on a factory floor to VP of Global Supply Chain Management.

She's held leadership positions at companies like BorgWarner, Bosch, GKN, and Inteva Products. She was named one of the top 100 leading women in the automotive industry. But through all of it, she watched the same fear-driven, command-and-control culture hold the industry back.

In her early 50s, she walked away from the C-suite to start Gravitas Detroit, where she now coaches leadership teams, speaks on stages across the country, and hosts the Automotive Leaders Podcast. She's the author of AutoCulture 2.0 and one of the loudest voices pushing the auto indus ...