John Stech

Auto Ethnographer with John Stech

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The Auto Ethnographer is a deep dive into the human experience of crossing cultures—what it feels like to live, work, lead, and belong in places far from home. Hosted by global executive and cultural storyteller John Jörn Stech, the podcast explores the realities of expatriate life, intercultural communication, and the messy, meaningful process of adapting to new norms, new languages, and new ways of seeing the world. John brings more than three decades of international experience across the United States, Germany, Egypt, Russia, Vietnam, and Thailand. His career in global leadership has place...

Author

John Stech

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Business

Podcast website

auto-ethnographer.com

Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

EP 5: Gianfranco Pizzuto: the journey from agricultural machinery to electric hypercars Video 26.03.2025

In this week's episode John Stech, host of The Auto Ethnographer, has a conversation with with Gianfranco Pizzuto, Founder and CEO of Automobili Estrema, a company designing and preparing the Fulminea e-hypercar for launch. He also reveals plans for a new, as-yet, unannounced project. Born and raised in northern Italy where the borders of Austria and Switzerland converge with his native country, G...

EP 4: Gareth Dunsmore: Leading teams across cultures at Nissan, McLaren, and VinFast Video 19.03.2025

In this week's episode John Stech , host of The Auto Ethnographer , has a conversation with Gareth Dunsmore . With an appreciation of different cultures going back to his childhood, thanks to his family, Gareth talks about his experiences working overseas with Nissan and VinFast. He also speaks about McLaren and how to convey its Britishness around the world. Gareth started his marketing career wi...

EP 3: Dr. Helmut Groesser: Strategizing Mercedes-Benz products for the world Video 12.03.2025

In this week's episode John Stech, host of The Auto Ethnographer , has a conversation with Dr. Helmut Groesser . Helmut spent most of his career in Product Management at Mercedes-Benz . Most of the vehicles you know over the past decade were influenced by Helmut and his team in some way.  Today he talks about how Mercedes-Benz considered different country-market requirements and some of the i...

EP 2: A Conversation with Greg Tebbutt: The Volkswagen Brand's journey in South Africa vs the USA. Video 05.03.2025

This week John Stech , host of The Auto Ethnographer is joined by Greg Tebbutt . Greg has spent 30 years in marketing with half of that in the automotive industry, both on the agency and the automaker sides. On the agency side he worked with Nissan, BMW, Audi, and Volkswagen (South Africa).  On the automaker side, he worked with Volkswagen (USA), VinFast, and Meyers Manx.  The conversati...

Welcome to The Auto Ethnographer first episode Video 18.02.2025

John Stech, The Auto Ethnographer, introduces the concept of autoethnography and how it became "auto ethnography" with a focus on cars.  On this podcast we tell the human stories behind the famous automotive and vehicle brands, spanning continents, countries, and cultures across the globe. We unlock the mysteries of local culture, values, and approaches to success in the vehicle industry. Der...

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