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Competitors at the Same Table: Leading Collaboration in the Automotive Industry
Put Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, BMW, Volkswagen, and seven more automakers in one room. They fight each other over every sale, and somebody has to get them to agree on a single position and carry it into Washington. That somebody is Jennifer Safavian.
Jennifer is the first President and CEO of Autos Drive America, the trade association that 12 international automakers created to speak for their U.S. operations. She got the job offer about a week before COVID shut the country down. She built the organization from the ground up, and then the auto tariffs landed. Her members build almost half the…
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