DTO Performance | People are the purpose, motorsport is the method.

People

are the Purpose,

Motorsport

is Our Method.

About Us

OUR VALUES

At DTO Performance, we use motorsport to develop and transform people and teams, combining corporate experience with the art and science of racing to create inspirational and effective team performance events and leadership programmes.

OUR WORK IS UNDERPINNED BY FOUR KEY COMMITMENTS:

Creating solid relationships to deliver personalised outcomes for clients.
Facilitating learning and development through leveraging the transformative power of motorsport.
Combining passion and pride with professionalism.
Offering inclusive and accessible products, as standard.

Our team is immersed in the motorsport industry and combines a passion for motorsport with decades of global experience in leadership coaching, strategic business development and in the construction of high-performance teams.

We work in partnership with some of the UK’s finest sportspeople and leadership and development coaches to design and execute unique, exciting and effective programmes for global corporates, intact teams and senior leadership teams across a wide range of sectors.

Attributes found within high functioning teams

Whether it’s an elite sports team or a leadership team within a corporate business, there are attributes that are always found that make these teams successful.

Trust

Deepening your awareness of the components of trusting relationships
Being open and transparent

Communication

Sharpen up your feedback skills
Make sure you think and communicate precisely under pressure

Understanding
yourself/Self-awareness

Greater awareness of your strengths and how they show up in real time
Understanding your habitual and limiting thought partners
Practicing how to receive feedback and guidance

Conflict management

How to disagree productively
Listening whilst feeling strongly

Problem-solving

Working with complexity in groups
Collectively and collaboratively working to fix things and make them better

Empathy

Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes
Demonstrating empathy and building a sense of delivering as a team

DTO Performance instructor talking to driver

TEAM PERFORMANCE

Developing people is the purpose.
Motorsport is our method.

At DTO Performance we take the dynamic world of motorsport and use it to create valuable, interactive and enjoyable Team Performance events.

Within our approach, we use the elite sport principles of measurable performance, collaboration and the ability to make good decisions and think clearly under pressure. We devise tailored training days for your staff that are enjoyable and also create long-lasting mindset changes in addition to helping your team develop new skills.

Attendees will work through motorsport-themed modules that highlight important attributes found in high functioning teams, focusing on trust, communication, conflict resolution, problem solving and empathy.

Whilst our Team Performance days are fun and engaging, our objective is to create an environment in which your team can learn and develop. Our modules provide invaluable observations on how your staff react under pressure, how effective (or otherwise) their leadership skills are and help you identify the natural role that individuals play within the team.

We motivate people and bring them together to work more effectively, offering a unique perspective and reference point for getting the best out of your staff along with helping to inform confident decisions about organisational design and structure.

Our skilled instructors and coaches are on-hand throughout to provide constructive feedback on individual behaviours and skills. You will be amazed by the amount of learning you come away with after just one day.

Are you passionate about developing and supporting your team? If you value your people, get in touch today to discuss Team Performance opportunities for your organisation.

TESTIMONIALS

TEAM ENGAGEMENT EVENT

The ‘experiences’ that DTO put together, not only have motivated teams and brought them together to work more effectively, but have gained a unique perspective and reference point. Many people have been able to use this judgement to make immediate career plans and decisions around organisational design and structure that we otherwise wouldn’t have been in a position to do.

As an independent HR Consultant, I will certainly be recommending DTO as an effective team building, development planning and organisational design solution to other clients.

Hannah Soye | HR Consultant, Evelyn Consulting Ltd

PITSTOP CHALLENGE

The pitstop challenge was a really good test for understating how people analyse situations differently and had to work together to make sure that people were playing to their strengths and towards a common goal. Once we had our roles we were then able to little things for each other to make it easier and massively speed up the overall pitstop.

Ben Dillon | Business executive, Bink

The Team

Our passionate and people centred team has a unique mixture of knowledge, skills and hands-on industry experience.

Mike Jordan

Mike’s long and highly successful corporate career has spanned over two decades leading marketing, business development and technical teams in the financial services industry, across the globe. Mike has also held senior executive roles at American Express and was a board member of their Middle Eastern business. With a diverse portfolio of investments, board positions and advisory roles in FinTech, travel, insurance and commercial waste management, Mike is also a driven entrepreneur, passionate about helping great people build great businesses.  Mike and Rob met in 2013, when Rob provided driver coaching. They have since raced together many times and developed the concept for DTO Motorsport through a shared love of all things automotive.

Dani Jordan

Dani is responsible for marketing and branding at DTO Motorsport and is extremely passionate about DTO's 'look & feel'. Also having a background in event creation, she provides hospitality for guests at events and initiatives.  Dani has developed and flexed her fantastic people skills through working as a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist and personal trainer.  She brings this breadth of experience to the team through managing and developing client relationships across a diverse range of industries. Creative, adaptive, relatable and never afraid to take on new challenges, Dani takes an active role in guiding our clients towards achieving ambitious goals - on and off the track.

Rob West

Rob is DTO Motorsport’s co-founder and lead-instructor, with over two decades of experience in the motorsport events industry. Having competed as a racing driver in classes including European FIA GT, Porsche Carrera Cup and Britcar, Rob has also worked as a car development driver for some of the world’s most famous automotive brands, including Aston Martin, Toyota and McLaren.  A fully qualified instructor and development coach, Rob has a passion for helping people accomplish their driving goals and takes immense pride in being part of their progress behind the wheel.  Rob is also a regular test driver for press, film and television outlets within the motorsport industry and offers unparalleled experience in the design and delivery of complex and high-profile motorsport events for a wide range of automotive clients, customers, suppliers and partners.

Emma Rainbow

Emma has been producing events globally for over 14 years, focusing on the automotive and luxury sector. Emma believes anything is possible and loves to make it happen, and is responsible for the overall operations and event side of the business. Her experience spans across the automotive industry from McLaren to Jeep, from BMW to Jaguar. She specialises in complex events including global test drives, track day design and management, large experiential structural builds, innovative vehicle launches and extensive dealer trainer programmes, always focusing on the detail! Delivering these events has taken Emma all over the world, which ties in with her passion for travelling and exploring on and off the beaten track.

Eddy Hall

Eddy's engineering career began 10 years ago, working on some fantastic classic race cars, including Mustangs, Cobras, and Jaguar E-Types, he then went on to specialise in classic Aston Martin’s. One of the many reasons Eddy loves his job is because no two days are ever the same. His role has taken him all over the world, working with incredible people, at incredible circuits, under incredible cars. Eddy's experience is vast, and his talent has led him to support race teams at Le Mans, British GT, World Rally Cross and many more, including 3 years as a contractor at Pure McLaren events. As our Head of Engineering Eddy oversees our workshop and all things vehicles, ensuring our cars are ready for events. With a meticulous eye for detail and safety conscious, Eddy ensures that our vehicles are maintained to an extremely high standard.

GEORGIE McCormack

With almost 8 years of experience working in automotive and motorsport events, Georgie is confidently responsible for personnel and event management as well as hospitality coordination. She has worked on a variety of well-known industry events such as Monaco F1, Goodwood Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival on behalf of Mercedes-Benz and McLaren. Georgie is also well practiced in holding private events for renowned household names such as Continental, Williams Martini Racing and Mercedes AMG Petronas F1. Georgie loves that her job has taken her all around the world and allowed her to experience many different cultures. Her passion for the industry stems from a general love of adrenaline, fast paced sports which often extends to gymnastics and skiing in her free time.

Ben Dillon

Ben is at the forefront of DTO and is responsible for building and nurturing relationships with our clients and partners. Ben works closely with the sales team to identify and generate new opportunities for DTO and is passionate about driving the company forward, focusing on business development and investment conversations. Having raced karts for 15 years, a hobby which took him all across Europe during his childhood, he still loves motorsport and brings his experience to the team. Away from the circuit, Ben is an avid sports fan and he loves both watching and playing football and has even be known to climb the odd mountain.

Toby Westley

Toby has been working as a Technician since 2013 where he initially started with Historic and Classic cars. He’s had experience working on race cars such as Jaguar E-Type, Austin Healey’s, Lotus’ and big American muscle cars such as Mustangs, Corvette Stingrays and Historic Formula 1 vehicles. He then moved onto modern single seaters as a No.1 Technician for both British Formula 4 and Historic Formula 1, before progressing onto McLaren where he worked as a contractor for their road cars. Toby moved on to be a No.1 Technician for McLaren’s Customer Racing division, where he worked on GT4s, GT3s, Senna GTRs, and all of the McLaren road cars, this was a great opportunity to work on the best of the cars McLaren have to offer. Having aspirations to be a racing driver since he was a child, Toby has been chasing his own racing career on the side and is currently developing his own BMW Compact to race in the 750 Motor Club Hot Hatch Championship. His long-term goal is to either become a Driver Coach or utilise his great team attitude and become a Team Manager.

Andy Spence

Having started his career as a mechanic aged 15, skill and passion for cars has taken Andy all over the world, enabling him to work on many exciting and often secretive projects. During the early years of his career, Andy was more likely to be found on a film set than in a garage. Responsible for building and adapting vehicles that would feature in films, Andy has worked on some of the most iconic movies (and cars) including- James Bond, Batman (The Batmobile!), Tomb Raider and he custom made The Nautilus Car, featured in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Not surprisingly, in 2010 Andy was head-hunted by McLaren Automotive, where he became a Production Technician. This was the beginning of ten-year stint working on McLaren’s high-performance cars, including two years in Spain at their test facility where he was a Test and Durability Technician, developing the 720, Senna, 600LT and the Speedtail. Possibly one of the most highly skilled technicians’ in the industry, Andy is Lead Technician at DTO, working closely with the motorsport team he is responsible for preparing, servicing and maintaining both the DTO fleet and our customer vehicles.

OUR ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENT

At DTO Performance, we show our commitment to a positive environmental impact in three key ways:

Greener Solutions
We actively seek environmentally friendly solutions – using electric vehicles, where possible, and avoiding disposable plastics.

Offsetting
We regularly take stock of our environmental credentials, taking part in on-going carbon-reducing and recycling schemes.

Laps for Trees
For every lap completed by one of our fleet, we plant a tree – creating a net positive impact to protect future generations of drivers.