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MIGHTY MARY TEAM CONTINUES TO INSPIRE

MIGHTY MARY, America3 All-Women's America's Cup Team, 1995
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Courageous Thinking Inc. CEO and Founder Linda Lindquist is featured with her A3 team members in a new release: MIGHTY MARY: Rock the Boat.

This film chronicles the multi-faceted story of the first all-women’s sailing team to contend for the famed America’s Cup, but it is much more than that. The team that inspired women everywhere in 1995 continues to do so thirty years later. 

Mighty Mary Film poster

After the Cup, Linda and A3 teammate Katie Pettibone collaborated for many years finding ways to continue inspiring women. Their shared vision resulted in the Rising Tide Leadership Institute (RTLI) which they co-founded in 2012. 

Coinciding with the release of MIGHTY MARY; RTLI recently posted about the significance of their A3 experience and how they have and continue to pay it forward, which you can read here: 

RTLI Founders, America3 America’s Cup All-Women’s Team Members Linda Lindquist and Katie Pettibone; Inspiring and Advocating for Opportunity for 30 Years

We hope that you will enjoy the post and see the film as well!

Big Ten Network interview’s RTLI co-founder Linda Lindquist-Bishop

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The Big Ten Network recently asked University of Illinois alumni Linda Lindquist-Bishop why she calls the leadership institute she co-founded ‘Rising Tide?’

Linda racing with team Delta
Linda racing with team Delta

 

“To add more women leaders to the equation we can’t just inspire and equip – we also have to change the acceptance for what women can achieve, with those who can provide or prevent access for women at the leadership table.”

Competing on the high-tech, high-performance sailing, aviation and motor sports platforms equips women for leadership, creates acceptance for their abilities at the leadership table, and inspires other women to step up and lean in to leadership opportunities.
Read more at: Big Ten Network

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Introducing Rising Tide Leadership Institute

Risign Tide Leadership website
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Look at what we’ve been working on!

It was a year ago that Courageous Thinking created a blog to Spotlight Katie Pettibone. Katie was in the Middle East coaching young Omani women to sail and then race in the grueling 1200 mile Sailing Arabia the Tour. Young women who had never been in a gym learned to compete against men in offshore sailing.  These young women’s lives were changed, they discovered greater potential for who they could be and they became leaders and role models for thousands of other young women. Katie and I knew we had to do something more to create opportunities through sports for women to develop into their full potential. We know that when women are elevated, the whole world wins.

So, we’ve spent the last year creating Rising Tide Leadership Institute.

RTLI website

At RTLI we believe that there is a direct correlation between the skill development required to successfully compete in high-technology sports and the skill development needed to lead and succeed in the global economy. We have built a unique global model for inspiring and equipping women leaders to compete in the global economy. Katie just landed in Kuwait to rejoin Dee Caffari and the young Omani women to continue their journey.  The Oman Sail women’s team will be competing in the Sailing Arabia the Tour 2013 starting February 12- 26th.

Come learn about the Rising Tide Leadership Institute and follow Katie, Dee and the Omani women’s adventure along the Arabian Coast.

This is going to be a blast!

Linda