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Shift: A podcast about mobility

Ford’s Marcy Klevorn on transformation and transportation (Episode 14)

Shift: A podcast about mobility

Automotive News

Business

4.637 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In her last interview before retirement, Ford chief transformation officer Marcy Klevorn discusses her career at Ford, along with the company’s past, present and future mobility efforts.

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0:00.0

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0:10.0

Find out what Planet M is doing to help businesses make that possible at planetM.com.

0:15.0

That's PLANet.com. Hi everyone welcome to shift a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow reporter

0:32.4

from the automotive news and your host.

0:34.7

Joining me in the studio today is Leslie Allen, the Shift Mobility Editor.

0:38.3

Hi Leslie, how are you today?

0:39.6

I'm doing fine, Pete. How are you doing?

0:41.3

I'm doing great.

0:42.2

I'm excited about today's episode in which we have a

0:45.7

conversation with Marcy Clevorne from Ford. She's currently Ford's chief transformation officer, formerly the President of their Ford Smart Mobility LLC,

0:56.8

and she's retiring in a matter of weeks.

0:59.8

So excited to talk to her about her perspective on where Ford has been as an

1:05.2

auto company and where it's going as a mobility company.

1:08.3

Yeah, that's Ford is probably a pioneer out there in terms of transformation from, you know, strictly working on

1:16.6

automotive to working on mobility. I know that was something that started under Bill Ford, the executive chairman.

1:24.0

Yeah, that really was.

1:25.0

He, you could probably credit him for being the most prescient of the, you know,

1:30.0

automakers or leading the automakers.

1:33.0

It was probably close to two decades ago at this point

1:36.0

where he laid out a vision that auto companies

1:39.3

were no longer just auto companies,

1:41.2

but that there was a much bigger market to serve when you

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