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Detailed Biography of Dawn Riley
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As CEO and Captain of America True, Dawn was the first woman to manage an America's Cup sailing team. She is also the first American to have raced on three America's Cup teams and two Whitbread Round-the-World Race sailing teams. After which, she was the general manager of the French Team, Areva Challenge, her fourth America’s Cup challenge. She is former President of the Woman’s Sports Foundation, founded by Billie Jean King and is active in many public service activities.
Growing up in Detroit, Michigan, where she sailed on Lake St. Clair, Dawn became obsessed with sailboat racing at the age of 13. She joined North Star Sail Club and became commodore of the Sea Explorer sailing program. Dawn said it was difficult to break into professional sailing, and she had to clean quite a few boat bottoms and learn to fix motors before people took her seriously. But she didn't give up.
Dawn now has a sailing resume that includes skipper of the 2002 IC 45 World Champion, the first two-time winner of the Santa Maria Cup, crewing on the Maxi Yacht Morning Glory as they set the all time course record in the 1996 Sydney to Hobart ocean race. She was also team captain of America3, the historic all-women America's Cup team in 1995, a member of the winning America's Cup team America3 in 1992, and skipper of Heineken, the all-women team in the 1993-94 Whitbread Round the World sailing marathon. According to Riley, teamwork means choosing the right person for each job, man or woman.
A television commentator and an experienced public speaker, Riley has spoken on topics ranging from entertaining adventure stories to motivational seminars in team building and personal success. She is a former member of the International Speakers Association. In addition to her sailing and team management duties, she is currently the Chief Executive Officer of America True, dedicated to providing youth with the opportunity to benefit from sailing and its inherent life lessons nationwide. Riley is an outspoken advocate of woman and youth issues in particular equal access to sports for all.
"Believe in yourself and don't accept any boundaries. If you can dream it, you can do it." – Dawn Riley
SPEECH TOPICS
Entertainment & Inspirational Sailing Adventure Topics
•Sea Stories of sailing around the world and a few America’s Cup Campaigns
•What sailing does for your competitive edge
•What sailing does for kids
•What sailing did for me
•What sailing does for women
•What sailing does for your business sense
Sailing and Business
•Managing after a mutiny --- How I did it – What I’d do differently
•Inter-team/office communications --- Sailors are adults – I think
•Diversity of people and experience; perspective is strength
•Risk Management
Planning your Course
•Building a winning team
•Rock the Boat: Decision making Lessons learned from doing it differently
•Dealing with Change
•The Ping Pong Theory – as long as you are headed in the general direction of the windward mark. VMG, best VMG, taking a knock to get to a lift.
•Finding your Passion
•Planning your future – mind mapping (interactive exercise)
•Winning in a highly competitive world – on the edge of ‘out of control’
Women’s Topics
•Pointers from competing in a “so-called man’s world”
Inspirational
•Motivate to take risks
•Follow dreams
•Make choices
•Give back
Clinics and Team Building
•ClearPoint Weather seminars
•Coaching for all levels
•Learning about your co-worker and yourself – ON a boat
•Community Outreach Clinics
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