Leadership Development
Team Captain offers an innovative approach to leadership training — a unique sailing experience designed to empower individuals and unlock their full leadership potential.
Why sailing?
Sailing is an activity rooted in teamwork, communication, and adaptability.
Just as a skilled skipper navigates a vessel in open waters, a successful leader guides their team through challenges, ensuring they reach their goals. By immersing participants in a sailing experience, Team Captain facilitates the development of essential leadership qualities that can be transferred back to the workplace.
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
— Oscar Wilde
Our Program
Designed in close collaboration with Canadian CEOs and C-Suite members, this course aims to empower and assist leaders in rediscovering connection to their teams and to themselves.
The 4-day program brings participants together through textbook learning and on-the-water training. Questions and discussions at the beginning and end of each day create a collaborative environment and a safe working space.
A small group of 3-5 participants will learn to safely operate a 36-foot sailing vessel under sail and under power. Participants will be challenged in planning, strategizing, delegating, and decision-making.
The Framework
Our Vessel
The training vessel is a C&C 36 with a full complement of cruising facilities: kitchen, bathroom and seating area.
Our Classroom
Our courses are taught on board at the dock and underway in English Bay, in the middle of open water.
What they experienced
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“The course helped me to experience vulnerability which is a good thing. As leaders, we don’t get to experience that.”
Julie Ann Wojciechowski
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“This course integrates the “theory” behind several leadership principles with their real-life applications"
Rishi Badola
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“No hiding possible! On other courses I’ve taken , it’s always very easy to hold back if things get tough ”
Laura Cardin
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"It taught me to work with the situation given to me and be OK knowing that I don’t always have the answers"
Julie Ann Wojciechowski
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“Great opportunity to learn more about myself in challenging situations, with the excitement of learning something new"
Maria Bulatova
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“The course made me realize that leadership is not only about succeeding yourself, but bringing out the best in your team”
Karl Chua
Our Story
Motivated by our personal transformation and driven to empower others, we embarked on a mission to design a bespoke program tailored specifically for C-Suite members.
Team Captain is rooted in self-awareness, the challenges of communication, the rewards of authentic leadership, and how we translate those experiences into our everyday life.
Team Captain shows leaders that through the sailing experience, they are able to develop the tools and skills they need to forge meaningful connections with their teams and with themselves
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COURSE DESIGNER & CO-CREATORWith her extensive leadership experience, Therese recognized the potential for sailing as a powerful tool for leadership development.
As an expert in human rights, equity and inclusion, Therese has spent her career supporting connection, collaboration, and helping to create inclusive and psychologically safe working environments.
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SAILING DIRECTORVaughan Johansen holds a USCG Captain’s Licence and has been an adult educator for over 20 years. He has taught sailboat cruising since 2010 and instructed over 100 cruising courses.
