Turning Tides: The Life Experience That Set Her Free

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 Since stepping off the corporate stage and onto the open ocean, Elizabeth Tucker has become a sought-after speaker, delivering keynotes and panels across industries with a focus on leadership, resilience, risk, and reinvention. From executive forums, annual fundraising lunches, to club awards nights, she’s spoken to hundreds, using the power of story and lived experience to challenge how we define high performance and who gets to lead.

Grounded, candid and quietly compelling, Elizabeth doesn’t preach. She connects. Whether it’s recounting storms at sea or walking away from a CFO career to start again, her talks are equal parts vulnerable and empowering, leaving audiences with the sense that they too can chase what matters.

Her sessions are brought to life through raw, real-time footage from her sailing campaigns, paired with powerful visual storytelling and honest reflection. The imagery isn’t just dramatic, it’s unforgettable. People don’t just listen to Elizabeth. They feel her journey. And they remember it long after the event wraps up.

When Elizabeth left her career as a CFO to build a global sailing campaign from scratch, she didn’t have the technical skills. But she had a clear vision and relentless drive. This session explores why clarity of purpose and deep commitment often outperform experience, and why businesses need to rethink how they assess leadership and potential.

Starting again wasn’t just a career change. It was a full rewrite of what success meant and how Elizabeth wanted to live. She shares what she has learned from letting go of everything safe and building something entirely new. For anyone facing change or questioning what comes next, this talk is about resilience, reinvention and doing things differently.

We spend too much time trying to fix women, and not enough time changing the systems they are working in. This talk is about what happens when we shift the conditions. I share what I’ve learned building an all-female offshore race team, and how to create real opportunity by focusing on access, trust and responsibility not just representation.

 Offshore sailing is more than wind and water, it’s resilience in motion. For Elizabeth, it’s the ultimate test of leadership, self-reliance, and mental clarity. In this session, she shares why the ocean became her classroom, how offshore sailing mirrors the challenges of modern life and business, and why more women should take the helm, both on deck and in the boardroom. Prepare to see high-performance through a whole new lens. 

 Leadership without diversity isn’t leadership, it’s limitation. Through Za Ocean Racing’s Women’s Program, Elizabeth is not only challenging offshore sailing’s gender gap but proving that diverse teams perform better, adapt faster, and lead stronger. In this session, she shares why investing in underrepresented voices isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s the smartest move any organisation can make. From helm to horizon, this is about reshaping what leadership truly looks like.