Agustina Garcia: An engineer who is passionate about creating a more human world.

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 conversation Agustina shares how she was already different as a child because her parents were in Germany and she was raised by her grandparents and wider family in Spain.

She was keen to achieve financial independence as early as possible and so her initial ambition to be a surgeon with its many years of study became less attractive. She chose to go into engineering instead.

She only wanted to be a leader if she could be herself.

We talked about the first person you lead is yourself and how you lead yourself will impact how you lead others.

We discussed women stepping up into leadership positions. Agustina suggests a lot of women don't do it because they don't have role models and she encourages women to become leaders and help shape a better society.

I enjoyed getting to know Agustina through our conversation very much and I am delighted that she chose to share her story with me. I hope that you will be inspired by her stepping up in this way and I look forward to hearing what resonates with you.

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About Andy

I'm an experienced business leader and a passionate developer of people in the automotive finance industry, internationally.

During over twenty five years, I have played a key role in developing businesses including Alphabet UK, BMW Corporate Finance UK, BMW Financial Services Singapore, BMW Financial Services New Zealand and Tesla Financial Services UK.

At the same time, I have coached individuals and delivered leadership development programmes in 17 countries across Asia, Europe and North America.

I started Aquilae in 2016 to enable “Fulfilling Performance” in the mobility industry, internationally.

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Episode recorded on 31 October, 2024.