Agenda

Women’s Sport Breakfast

In partnership with Keiser

The Women’s Sport Breakfast, in partnership with Keiser, will bring together high-performance practitioners who are passionate about growing women’s sport and access for women in sport, for an opportunity to connect and have impactful conversations before heading into the day’s agenda.

Introduction & Welcome

Action Planning & Roundtable Discussion

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We’ll set the scene for the day and set ourselves a plan and some aims to ensure we get the most out of the hours ahead.

Coaching Female Athletes

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We’ll kick off the first session of the day by exploring how to effectively lead and coach female athletes, as well as observe and discuss some of the learning the speakers have learnt across their careers. We’ll touch upon coaching strategies, communication, coach-athlete relationships, mental skills and much more.

Inclusive Environments to Enhance Performance Outcomes

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Why is diversity, equity, and inclusion critical to a high performing culture? We’ll hear from an expert in this field to help us understand how bias works, how to role model inclusive behaviours, and how becoming culturally competent by opening up honest conversations is so important for working Effectively with people from different backgrounds.

Morning Break

Interactive Roundtable

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This is an opportunity to discuss the previous session with your peers in the room. We’ll also provide guidance and suggested areas of focus around the theme of and insights that were shared around coaching female athletes and creative a culture of diversity.

Making the Transition From Athlete to Leader

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Making that transition into a post-playing career is rarely an easy one, especially when you remain in the game as a coach or leader. We’re lucky to have a former City player and Lioness to share what she is learning on that journey, and what lessons she has learnt along the way already.

Interactive Roundtable

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This is an opportunity to discuss the previous session with your peers in the room. We’ll also provide guidance and suggested areas of focus around the theme of and insights that were shared on the topic of coaching and leading female athletes.

The Physiology of the Female Athlete

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The aim of this panel, which will be a mix of academics and practitioners, is to explore and discuss how to provide greater breadth and depth of knowledge regarding female exercise physiology and therefore contribute to central underpinnings that enhance the physical performance, optimize recovery, and improve the health of females.

UKSI Case Study: Female Athlete Health & Performance

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Afternoon Break

Skills Session – Inclusive Leadership

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Like all our events, we like to dedicate an hour to understanding the skills that leaders need to succeed in a particular area – the aim of this session is to inject some energy into the day by exploring and practicing some new leadership skills in an interactive format. We’ll focus on skills and actions we can implement to ensure we are operating and leading inclusively.

We’ll unpack topics such as:
• Understanding how bias works, role modelling inclusive behaviours and becoming culturally competent
• Exploring how if you encourage and foster inclusion, it will help attract, retain and develop a diverse talent pool
• Ensuring that we as leaders create psychological safety to ensure that we all belong and can contribute authentically in a meaningful and deliberate manner

Final Reflections, Wrap Up & Closing Remarks

Networking Drinks

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We’ll finish the day with some drinks, where you’ll have the opportunity to connect and re-connect with peers and friends over a couple of drinks.