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Martha Boston is the founder of Captains Courageous, and has been leading sailing adventures since 1989. She began her training and consulting practice in 1979; and later founded Higher Ground (orginally the parent company of Captains Courageous) through which clients around the world have developed exceptional skills in collaborative leadership and teamwork. Martha also facilitates personal growth seminars for Insight Seminars and is a master trainer for Interaction Associates.
Martha is a mediator and a former lawyer with a U.S. Supreme Court win under her belt. She has taught at the University of Texas and the University of Houston, and in numerous academic and professional development programs. She has degrees in government, law and theology, and has been a lifelong student of the workings of the human heart, mind and spirit.
She brings a depth and breadth of knowledge and skill to the intersection of personal growth and organizational excellence for clients ranging from small nonprofits to government to Fortune 100 companies, as well as individuals. She delights in creating unique and impactful learning opportunities in settings ranging from boardrooms to mountaintops to sailing the high seas, with clients and participants throughout the Americas, the Caribbean Basin, Australia, Europe, Russia and the Middle East.
http://www.linkedin.com/marthaboston
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Peter Branning brings a lifelong interest in developing human potential, together with a rare depth of sailing expertise and a wide range of life experience. With over 40 years on the water, Peter is well-known among the elite of world-class sailing racers. He is a champion racer himself, with a multitude of sailing titles to his name. Peter is a licensed US Coast Guard captain and a certified instructor for the United States Sailing Association.
For more than 25 years, Peter was an attorney with a successful litigation and mediation practice. He subsequently returned to school to focus on the internal aspects of the human experience, receiving advanced degrees and training to become a professional counselor and life coach. Earlier in life, he worked as firefighter, teacher, commercial pilot, and sailmaker (during which time he invented a revolutionary process for designing and building spinnakers and offwind sails).
In addition to Captains Courageous, Peter maintains his practice as a life coach and mediator through his company Lightheart Coaching. He also coaches competitive sailors, assisting them with both the mental and physical aspects of the sport. Peter offers sailing charters through our sister company Lightheart Sailing www.lightheartsailing.com.
Among all Peter's accomplishments, his proudest is the raising of his two remarkable sons, both of whom have become excellent sailors, and more importantly, excellent young men.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/7/102/239
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A U.S. citizen who grew up in Venezuela, Peter Felsmann now lives in Puebla, Mexico. He has facilitated personal and professional development seminars, conflict-resolution training, and peer mentoring sessions over the last 15 years. He also facilitates seminars for abandoned children and teens, and people with life-threatening diseases and their caregivers.
Peter is a productivity consultant with McGhee Productivity Solutions, working with Fortune 100 companies to increase personal and organizational productivity. He is a co-founder of the Performance Enhancement Institute in Argentina, addressing performance and career goals of top-tier soccer players.
Peter is an avid sailor, having raced throughout the Caribbean basin. He devotes a significant part of his time to charitable organizations. Peter has clients throughout the US, Latin America, Russia, Israel and Europe. He is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and English.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/957/325
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In Gail Martin-Mauser’s many years’ experience as a leader and pioneer in the field of experiential learning, she has led thousands of individuals, partnerships and teams in breakthrough discoveries in business and professional environments worldwide. She is one of the first consultants to use the adventure-based learning model for executive leadership and multicultural team development.
Gail’s love of the open road has resulted in her creating a variety of “outback” adventure-based programs for teams all over the world, including a 3 year leadership development course for young leaders in El Salvador, a political awareness workshop for women in Portugal and over 14 years consulting with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Corporation preparing teams for space projects and launches.
Her belief is that “when teams experience exhilarating challenges and develop their deep concern and care for each other, they are then truly prepared to be high performance teams in all endeavors”.
Gail is President of California Wilderness Trainings, Inc. and works with clients throughout the U.S., Europe, South and Central America.
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George has over 28 years experience as an experiential consultant, coach and facilitator. In 1980 he and his partner, Gail Martin-Mauser, co-founded California Wilderness Trainings, Inc., a professional consulting company that designs and delivers experiential high performance learning programs.
George has extensive experience in the field of experiential learning as it applies to enhancing personal and professional effectiveness. His empathetic and compassionate approach is balanced with an acute awareness and sharpened intuitive capacity to spot and surface hidden factors which limit a person's ability to live a more productive, healthy and fulfilling life.
His ability to gain personal trust stems from an accepting, non-judgmental approach. This quickly establishes trust with his clients and enables them to move to a space where they easily experience their own personal power and effectiveness. His skill with interactive group processes empowers people to break through perceived limitations and experience their authentic selves in a way that transforms their self concept. As a colleague says, "In all my travels and work situations, I still have not met anyone who has George's ability to see the unseen, and then say it out loud."
In addition, George's commitment to his own personal development keeps him honest, relentless and highly effective in this work. His playfulness and outrageous spontaneity inspires others to break free from their limiting beliefs about themselves and experience life fully in the moment. His focus on working from the inside out provides a context for Self discovery that becomes a unique, powerful and memorable adventure.
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Martine calls herself the “grace and ease coordinator” for Captains Courageous. She grew up in Europe and has lived in Florida since 1993. She is fluent in English, Spanish and French and holds a BA in management and an MA in spiritual psychology. Martine coordinates logistics and registration for Captains Courageous, where she brings to bear her diverse skills and experience in marketing, events management, counseling, higher education, image consulting and staging. Martine owns MyVirtual-Assistant.com and lives with her extraordinary feline friend Sabrina in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/6/757/2b6
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