Rising Tide Leadership Institute Ambassadors will build awareness of our mission,
message and education initiatives.
RTLI Ambassadors are competitors in high-technology sports and serve as role models to educate audiences that there is a link between performance excellence and organizational excellence. Our Ambassadors provide girls with a vision of women in significant, unconventional leadership roles that will inspire them.
RTLI Ambassador Katie Pettibone with Oman Women Sailors, Intisar Al Tobi (L) and Raya Al Habsi (R)
Katie Pettibone
One of the pre-eminent women sailors in the world, Katie Pettibone is a veteran of three America’s Cup teams, including the 1995 the first all – women’s team to compete for the Cup, She has also sailed in two around the world races, the famed Sydney-Hobart and Worrell 1000 Extreme Catamaran races.
Dee Caffari
British yachtswoman Dee Caffari is the first woman to have sailed single-handed and non-stop around the world in both directions and the only woman to sail non-stop around the world three times.
Linda Lindquist-Bishop
High-performance athlete and business executive, Linda Lindquist-Bishop competed on the historic 1995 America3 Women’s Team, while also heading up their successful corporate sponsorship program. She next served as publisher of Yachting Magazine for 3 years, and went on to win two Farr-40 World Championships in 2004 and 2009 while building Courageous Thinking Inc., a consulting firm specializing in strategic planning, executive life transition and motivational speaking.
