Jean-Luc Cartwright

Jean-Luc is an experienced learning and development, project management and commercial leader with nearly two decades of automotive industry experience with Brands including Lexus, Tesla, and his own specialist vehicle company. His career spans award-winning sales team leadership, large-scale learning and development, operational delivery and complex project management, giving him the rare ability to connect people, performance and execution.

Jean-Luc has successfully launched multiple products and teams in this time, and previously designed and delivered scalable onboarding, leadership and talent development initiatives across EMEA, supporting a fast-growth organisation recruiting more than 3,000 people per quarter and engaging stakeholders at every level of the business.

Equally comfortable in both the structure of major corporate programmes and the intensity of start-up and motorsport environments, Jean-Luc thrives under pressure bringing clarity, energy and momentum to challenging situations. His strength lies in translating complex requirements into practical solutions, aligning stakeholders, developing high-performing teams and taking projects from concept through to successful delivery. Whether leading people, shaping learning programmes or managing fast-moving projects, he combines commercial awareness, creativity and disciplined execution to deliver lasting impact.

When not supporting other businesses on specific projects, Jean-Luc, along with the support of his wife and daughter (And Golden Retriever), founded and runs his own specialist vehicle business (Maple House Classic Cars LTD) sourcing, selling and racing historic vehicles across the globe, including collector vehicles supplied to Asia, the Middle East and Europe.