Linda Webb, Co-Founder &CEO
As Founder & CEO of RITE Academy, Linda Webb has been dedicating her life to civil service, law enforcement, and fighting fraud for over 35 years.
Her law enforcement career involved patrol, morals unit, selective enforcement unit (vice), police motors, dive rescue, detective, and master police academy instructor (teaching ethics and professionalism). Ms. Webb has taught over 20 diverse police courses, and designed multiple nationally recognized train-the-trainer police programs currently being used today.
She has worked as a contractor for USPS investigating sexual harassment, discrimination, and hostile work environment situations. Ms. Webb has devoted her life to helping law enforcement agencies bettering their department, through enhanced sensitivity training programs, like the RITE Academy.
In 2018, an officer taking the RITE class took Ms. Webb aside during a break. He was considering suicide and as he put it, “my only way out of this pain.” Having the personal experience with the suicide of her police partner, and her own demons as a young Officer, Ms. Webb was able to help this commander release the pain.
Mental Well-Being for each officer must be a priority in every agency. Getting great officers through the academy is hard enough, but then to lose them several years later is devasting to a department. We can’t afford to lose any officers in the agency, so we have to focus more on officer well-being.
Public Servants go through rough patches in their career, and we have to do more to help them with officer wellbeing. When you help the officer, in turn you help the agency and community.
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Randy Friedman, Co-Founder & President
As Co-founder & President of the RITE Academy, Randy Friedman brings her athletics and mental toughness training together, to help bring RITE to law enforcement. As a certified Social+Emotional Intelligence Coach with the ISEI (Institute of Social+Emotional Intelligence) and her 25+ years in corporate and athletics training, Friedman brings a unique perspective that helps to educate public service professionals enhance their communication skill-set, on and off the job.
Ms. Friedman has taught, coached, and mentored top CEO Executives, and civic leaders in the community. As a top executive in public relations and brand marketing, she understands the importance of upholding a positive image, as well preserving respect in the community.
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Dr. Paula Fellingham, Academic Advisor
Dr. Paula Fellingham has given presentations to many delegates at the United Nations, at the International Conference of the Worldwide Organization for Women, and numerous other conferences across the world. Paula participated in the World Congress on Families in Geneva, and at the World Movement of Mothers International Conference at NATO Headquarters.
Recipient, Doctorate of Education in Human Relations. Author of six books, including the internationally popular Believe It! Become It! How to Hurdle Barriers and Excel Like Never Before.
Recipient of the “Points of Light Award, Paula Fellingham” given by President George W. Bush. Recipient of the “President’s Volunteer Service Award” given by President Barack Obama.
Honored as Washington State Young Mother of the Year and State Woman of the Year.