Meet the people behind Confident Drivers

Every year, thousands of potential new drivers struggle to gain their license due to driving nerves and stress. 

This is what led to the story behind Confident Drivers, which is designed to support ADIs, nervous drivers, and learner drivers in conquering their nerves, controlling their anxiety, and building confidence on the road.  

The husband-and-wife team of Kev and Tracey has created the Confident Drivers website and its resources.

Tracey Field, BSc (Hons) Psych, Dip Stress Management Training, M Inst MTD, Mindfulness & Stress Management practitioner
I am a trained mindfulness teacher qualified in stress management techniques and graduated from the Open University in 2021 with a psychology degree. My background is in holistic therapy, working with cancer patients in a private medical clinic, and I now work full-time in the Driver Training Industry. I enjoy applying my knowledge and experience in stress management to different situations and settings. While I am not a driving instructor, I have been actively involved in the driver training industry for several years, supporting Kev and his business, as well as writing articles, giving talks and delivering workshops to help driving instructors support their nervous students.
 
Kev Field, M Inst MTD, The Driving Confidence Coach
In recent years, I have trained with the Coaching Academy to become a personal development and business coach and an NLP practitioner, and I aim to inspire and encourage others through my passion for coaching, helping them improve their driving confidence. I have a long background in the driving industry. As well as being a personal development coach, I am an experienced instructor and ADI trainer of over ten years, and I wanted to find a way to support my pupils and offer a better learning experience. My experience in the driver training industry includes being a Grade A ORDIT-registered instructor, and I'm one of a handful of people who delivered the BTEC4 on behalf of the Tri-Coaching Partnership, as well as being a Driver Metrics trainer. Previous to being an instructor I drove professionally and am able to drive anything from a forklift to an articulated lorry, gaining my HGV license at the age of 21. I combine my in-depth knowledge of road users and behaviour, driver training and coaching to empower you to achieve your driving goals.

How we have used our experience to create Confident Drivers

Tracey has chosen eight of the most effective stress management techniques, and together with Kev, we have combined our knowledge and experience to apply them to driving anxiety, stress and nerves.  

A subscription to Confident Drivers gives immediate access to the most effective stress management techniques, giving users the best opportunity to overcome driving anxiety and fears.  Each technique has its own page with exercises, audio and video files, allowing users to trial and choose the ones that work best for them. One size does not fit all!

Kev and Tracey regularly give talks and presentations to driving instructors on overcoming driving nerves and worries.  We have regularly written for industry journals and contributed opinion pieces to mainstream media.

We launched The Driving Confidence Podcast to help more anxious drivers. We created The Drive Calm Journal and our Driving Anxiety Flashcards to offer a practical approach to building driving confidence.

Confident Drivers was awarded 2nd place by The Open University for the New Business Challenge 2019 Student Entrepreneurship Competition.  Here is a short promo video they created with Tracey about the story behind Confident Drivers.

In The Media

December 2025 - BBC News - Why I'm terrified of motorways

October 2025 - Gathered - 14 Ways to Get to Sleep Fast

August 2025 - The Telegraph - Why thousands of midlife women are too afraid to drive on the motorway

June 2025 - TalkTV talking about driving test waiting times (again)

May 2025 - The Times - Motorway middle-lane hoggers

April 2025 - TalkTV talking about driving test waiting times

March 2025 - INews -  20 life skills you can learn in under 20 minutes

Dec 2024 - BBC Look East & Three Counties Radio talking about driving test waiting times

Oct 2024 - Talk Radio, talking about driving test waiting times

Oct 2024 - Talk TV, Morning Glory with Mike Graham talking about road markings outside schools

Aug 2024 - Metro Weekend Reads - Jess's Driving Confidence Coaching experience

Sept 2023 - Woman Listen Up - The Driving Confidence Podcast is highlighted

July 2023 - TalkTV Live with Vanessa Feltz about a report that female drivers are safer than male drivers

July 2023 - Grazia Life Skills Ask The Expert - Here's how to combat driving anxiety (issue 859)

May 2023 - Our advice Don't Take a Deep Breath is quoted on Glamour website

May 2023 - Kev offers advice on over 70's drivers to ITV News Anglia (see clip below)

Christmas Eve 2022 - Kev is quoted offering advice in INews

December 2022 - Nervous Drivers Calming Kit is mentioned in Prima magazine