About Us

Empowering Teams with Dynamic Training and Development

Welcome to DSTC, your premier destination for comprehensive training and development. At DSTC, we are committed to transforming the way individuals and organisations approach learning and growth. Our extensive range of programmes is designed to equip your team with the skills necessary for personal and professional success. Whether you are looking to enhance leadership abilities, improve communication, or foster a more inclusive workplace, DSTC offers tailored training to meet your needs.

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Interactive Training Courses By Debra Stevens

Presentation Skills

Develop your presentation skills to captivate audiences and deliver impactful messages. Our training programmes focus on enhancing public speaking, creating engaging content, and boosting confidence in presentations.

 
 
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Sales & negotiation

Enhance your sales performance and negotiation skills with our targeted training programmes. Learn advanced techniques to close deals effectively and build strong client relationships.

 

 

 

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Communication & Self awareness

Communication and Self-Awareness Effective communication and self-awareness

are critical for professional success. Our workshops cover a range of topics, including presence and impact, developing a growth mindset, assertiveness at work, and conflict resolution.

 

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Diversity & Inclusion

Our DEI programmes aim to create a more inclusive workplace by fostering respect and understanding among team members. We provide training on equity, inclusion, and the importance of diverse perspectives.

 
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Our Actors Your Facilitator

Enhance your training programmes with our professional actors, working alongside your facilitators to deliver engaging, realistic role-plays and forum theatre. Ideal for training managers, team leaders, and HR professionals seeking to enrich their learning sessions with dynamic, interactive elements.
in-house training to life ​

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Inclusive Team Culture

Creating an inclusive team culture is essential for fostering a dynamic, innovative, and productive work environment.

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DSTC Mission and Vision

At DSTC, our mission is to help people become more confident, capable leaders, managers and communicators through practical, experiential learning that creates lasting behavioural change.

Our programmes combine expert facilitation with realistic workplace practice, including professional actors where appropriate, so participants can try new approaches, receive meaningful feedback and apply what they learn immediately.

Our vision is simple: to make workplace learning genuinely useful, memorable and transformative — whether we’re developing one team or delivering programmes across an organisation.

Success Story - StenaLine

Stena Ferries are passionate about giving their customer’s the best experience and recognise it’s an emotional journey where little things make a massive difference. 

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FAQ

How much should i expect to pay for a DSTC workshop? ↓

Of course this is the question everyone needs to ask and it is the trickiest to answer. That is because everything we do is bespoke – carefully structured, tailored and resourced to ensure it is fit for individual purpose. What we create for one organisation will look very different to what we create for another – and, as such, it is difficult to cost something until we know more about what you are looking for. ​ We love a chat – and find that a quick conversation is the best way to get a rough understanding of your needs and be able to give you some idea of costs. There’s no obligation – we don’t do the ‘hard sell’ – we just need to know more before we can talk numbers with a degree of accuracy.

How does drama work within an organisation? ↓

DSTC is first and foremost a training company founded and run by learning and development professionals and our experience of working with organisations is unparalleled amongst our competitors. We are experts in behaviours, but we also have a huge amount of business experience and knowledge, we use actors and drama in our training to achieve the learning outcomes not just for affect. If you like we are a training company using the talent and experience of actors not actors working in training ​ We are also extremely careful about who works with us. We have a rigorous selection policy for our full-time staff and freelance associates and offer training at all levels and on a variety of subjects. Individual staff members have a range of professional qualifications including Organisational Development, Applied Theatre, and Coaching, amongst others.

How many learners can i get on a workshop? ↓

Again, this is a tricky question, and one very dependent on your requirements and key outcomes. We are just as comfortable working one on one with delegates in role play situations as we are facilitating workshop groups and delivering large-scale conference events. We will always ensure that our team is adequate in size to deliver an effective session that maximises the learning and supports our commitment to service quality

Why should I use DSTC drama based training company? ↓

We totally respect our competition, there are some extremely good drama based companies out there but that’s where we are different because we are a training company that uses drama in our training not actors running a training company. This gives us a unique advantage of having the best of both worlds, solid business experience and L and D combined with the talent and creativity of amazing actors that we have worked with for years. So we can keep an eye on your objectives and learning outcomes and not get carried away with the drama. ​ Also we don’t offer ‘off-the-shelf’ products – everything is bespoke. We draw on our experience and bring current thinking; ideas and processes from other areas to enhance our work, to ensure you have a tailored programme developed solely for your organisation. ​ We pride ourselves on building effective relationships with our clients, listening and understanding their needs, developing innovate learning solutions and delivering to a very high standard. Our experience is considerable and clients are quick to praise the value of our in-depth business knowledge, training expertise and creative process. 80% of our work comes from repeat business or referrals.

How do i know drama based training actually sticks? ↓

Our workshops are fun and we make no apologies for that as the training sticks more if they are engaged and enjoying what they are doing, but they are also thought provoking, challenging and highly memorable. We engage hearts and minds with our approach, empowering delegates to take an active role in their learning. We work closely with our clients at the outset of every programme; to determine their objectives for the training and explore what supporting materials or further resources may be useful for delegates. By achieving this understanding at the start of our partnership, we can design and deliver a programme in line with key learning objectives – and we can develop additional materials to embed and sustain the learning for delegates once they are back in the workplace.