Women Leaders in Sport - Individual Leadership Workshop 2025

This workshop series is an excellent opportunity for eligible women involved in the sports industry, including sports administrators, coaches, officials, club volunteers, and those in sports media who want to enhance or refresh their leadership skills.

The program provides individuals with contemporary leadership techniques, imparts valuable insights into the sports world, and fosters connections among women from every corner of the country.

Spanning seven weeks, these sessions, address topics such as myself as a leader, engaging and influencing others, leading with courage and curiosity. 

Objectives

• Enhance leadership competencies, capabilities, and self-confidence of women, thereby promoting greater diversity and inclusivity within the sporting sector.
• Offer women in the sports industry access to professional development opportunities that might otherwise be unavailable to them.

*Please note the following

• Applications will automatically close at 3:00pm (AEST) Monday 30th September 2024. Applications must be submitted by this time and any unfinished applications will shut down and will not be accepted.
• Please observe the different closing times for each state
  • NSW, ACT, VIC, QLD & TAS: 3:00 pm
  • SA & NT: 2:30pm
  • WA: 1:00pm

• Identify as a woman
• Aged 18 years or over 
• An Australian citizen or have been granted permanent residence status 
• Currently involved in a paid or volunteer capacity for either:
  • A National Sporting Organisation (NSO) or National Sporting Organisation for people with Disability (NSOD), recognised by the ASC (Australian Sports Directory)
  • Local Club or State/Territory Sporting Organisations (SSO) affiliated with an NSO or NSOD recognised by the ASC (Australian Sports Directory)
  • Commonwealth Games Association,
  • The National Institute Network (NIN),
  • Australian Sports Foundation
  • A media organisation as a sport journalist/writer 

• Not be a current employee of the ASC*

• Not have any outstanding debts or reporting requirements through other funding programs or services administered by the ASC.

• Supporting organisation is not named on the Workplace Gender Equality Agency website non-compliant organisations list.
• Supporting organisation is not named in the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse on its list of “Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme”.

*Current employee also includes consultants contracted to the ASC where this engagement is the only link to the sporting sector. ASC cannot be the supporting organisation.

Applicants must meet all the above eligibility requirements. The ASC may at its sole discretion, offer an applicant special consideration if an eligibility requirement cannot be met due to extenuating circumstances. Please contact wlis@ausport.gov.au if you have any questions about your eligibility.

In 2025, the ASC will be delivering 2 identical workshop cohorts that run for seven weeks in duration. 

· Cohort 1: week commencing 17th February to 6th April 2025

· Cohort 2: week commencing 12th May to 29th June 2025

Participants will be required to attend one (1) session per week for seven weeks in their allocated cohort. 

Participants will be allocated to one of the below groups based on their preferences selected below. While we do our best to accommodate participant preferences, it is not guaranteed.

Please select up to three sessions times you are available to attend.

Important: sessions are in Sydney local time. Please take possible time differences by State into consideration when picking your sessions.