Louise Makin

"Sailing is so good for teaching resilience, teamwork and working towards a common cause. I would love it to be really accessible, ultimately giving many kids a chance to have a go. There’s a lot of children that may not be good at the usual school sports, but they could be really good at sailing. If they are given the chance to find their confidence, their passion, their purpose in life, sailing could be their thriving environment.”"

"Getting the mindset right in business and sailing starts from the top. You need to create a culture where people are not just focusing on their job, but also taking into account the context of everybody else’s. That is done through dialogue and teaching. With our sailing team on JOURNEYMAKER, our culture is that we all do it together and support each other. We all have bad days at the races and heads do go down. So, you have to call it out and you have to take action and talk about what was not happening and put it right. It is very much a learning culture."

"Business today is hugely disrupted all the time and its environment is volatile and very uncertain. Sailing is a phenomenal metaphor for having to cope, use, and thrive to win, by exploiting that volatility."