Women Leaders in Sport - Executive Program - 2025

The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) is committed to raising organisational standards so that all women can thrive and succeed in all workplaces within the sporting sector. They recognise that women from culturally and racially marginalised backgrounds, First Nations women, women with disability and gender diverse individuals have significantly lower representation in leadership roles in organisations big and small. To be truly representative of our communities, they need to support the sector with the planning, tools and capability uplift to ensure systemic barriers are removed and a culturally safe and inclusive environment is created.

Each organisation will have access to a pool of hours with subject matter experts. This time is intended to support organisations with implementation of their gender equity strategy and action plans to accelerate progress towards a more equitable, high performing workplace.

Assistance for organisations include:

• develop a clear, practical and motivating plan to accelerate gender equity, inclusion and high performance
• upskill your people with the latest diversity, equity and inclusion practices
• drive measurable improvements in gender equity, engagement, wellbeing and performance
• be able to take actions that will attract, nurture and retain a diverse workforce of top talent

Eligibility criteria

• Be a national sporting organisation, a national sporting organisation for people with disability, or be a state/territory sporting organisation of a national body that is recognised by the ASC (Australian Sports Directory), the Australian Olympic Committee or Commonwealth Games Association.
• Have the commitment of, and a letter of support from, the Chair or CEO
• Organisation has made a commitment in their strategy to improve/address gender equality
• Organisation has no outstanding acquittal or reporting requirements with the ASC
• Organisation is not named by the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse, opens in a new tab on its list of “Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme”.  
• Organisation is not named on the Workplace Gender Equity Equality Agency website as declined to join or are unresponsive to the scheme.