Live 03 February 2021
It’s true more women play the game now, than they ever did before. It’s a whole different story when it comes to leading it. Only 3% of leadership positions in Sport are occupied by women, when the Olympic Movement sets that goal at 30%. We are here to change that.
No one has given women the what or how of sports’ politics. Until now. You’ll know the dates, process, and Do’s and Don’ts of the Sport Electoral year. We’ll guide you through the steps that will increase your chances at winning the spot that calls the shots.
Become a change-agent in your organization, and use your voice to shape the sport you love. You’ll learn how to build your personal power and influence, and how to use them when persuading voters and key decision-makers.
Discover your personal leadership style, and lead through a male-dominant arena with authenticity. Whether you aim at becoming a decision-maker, a speaker, expert, panelist, leader, or thought-leader, we’ll work with you to make it a solid and winner style.
Picture a TED Talk with the excitement of a live concert — all online!
PROGRAM DETAILS
Breakout sessions
Interactive discussions
Personalized coaching
Online get-togethers with guest speakers
Videos and exercises for you to go through at your own pace.
THE SESSIONS
Even if it’s digital, you’ll feel the closeness of in-person meetings, and nothing less. That was crucial to us. You’ll be in small groups to ensure maximum personalization, without missing the rapport that comes with building a supportive community of women leaders.
And because we’re able to work with flexible schedules that fit your timezone, you can participate in the sessions from the comfort of your home or office, wherever you are in the world.
THE TOPICS
Personal Power and Influence
Stakeholder management and use of skills navigating politics
Self-awareness of personal leadership style, areas of development and strengths
Communication and Persuasion skills
Negotiation skills
Networking, sponsoring, mentoring, and lobbying skills
Self-confidence, courage and assertiveness
Sport Electoral year and best practices
Leading in male-dominated environments with success and authenticity.
I help sports professionals worldwide get more results, more often and with less hassle.
As an energetic and engaging executive communications coach, professional speaker, entrepreneur, and blogger for 18 years, I’ve been coaching sport leaders, elite athletes, Olympians, heads of international sport bodies, teams, coaches, and referees, go from grassroots to high decision makers in the sport industry.
My core areas are gender diversity, inclusion, public speaking, and electoral processes.
A passionate sports-woman myself, with 20+ years of proven record as leader in sports such as archery, boxing, and wrestling, advocating for diversity in the sports industry is a pursuit I take personally. My multi-cultural and multi-lingual background have given me grounds to genuinely connect with people at all levels, resulting in the experiences and stories I’m now sharing with future leaders like yourself.
I’m an experienced coach, speaker, online-trainer and facilitator, having worked all over Europe, North America, Middle East, Asia, Australia and Africa. Gabriela and I have worked tirelessly since 2017, empowering women in Sport, worldwide. I’ve been delivering effective learning solutions across cultures and industries with F 500 companies and sports’ bodies. I speak English, German, French and Italian.
As the first woman to be Secretary General of the International Federation for Equestrian Sports, I’m an accredited and decision-maker within Sports. With inclusiveness as a goal, I want to help women see the big picture, and I hope to inspire the minds and hearts of all women (and girls) in sport. I’ll share my experiences in this industry and how being hands-on will help you get to where you want to be.
The Olympic movement will see more women take up leadership positions in the future because Gabriela Mueller’s work.
Great work, it sparks real change! We need big bold steps not incremental ones. This is the time for disrupters, young and old. Time for actions to change the course of history for women. Sports is an excellent way to do this.
Gabriela Mueller is doing excellent work. I’ve seen her perform, I’ve seen her deliver, she is making a positive difference in the lives of women and girls involved in sports, in terms of building their capacity and coaching, empowerment, motivating and inspiring them. Her work is not only making a positive difference in the lives of women and young women, but she is being transformative and a game-changer in the world of international sport.
WOW! The energy you get out of experiences like this is incredible, even when you think you’ve seen it all and you discover even more. Renewed confidence and you get to hear and do the best practices around the world. I wish for more experiences like these, specially for women who want to make a difference.
I did enjoy these couple of days here in Lausanne — it has been really inspirational. Gabriela is an incredible woman, she is full of energy, she is full of good ideas, really full of incredible tips. I think we all benefit not only from her work and her experience… It’s just a great time to be here, all the networking we do here with everyone around, it’s a privilege to be part of this group.
When I met her, I immediately noticed her coaching and skills as coach. She is prepared for this coaching business, and it is very important — this gives you trust on her work and her impact.
This training helps women overcome obstacles and help each other . Many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.”
Gabriela’s work and her program was as revelation for me. She’s practical and it reveals our potential and allows us to unlock our impact and for us to go for our most ambitious goals.
Women Leads Sport (WLS) is a 4-week live online, action-oriented, and intense learning program for women who want to lead or get actively involved in decision-making within their sports organizations worldwide. Built by the energising coach Gabriela Mueller, with the help of sport and leadership experts on her side, we hope to encourage women to leverage their strengths, and be game-changers for the sport they love — wherever they are, wherever they come from.
With over 18 years helping women to be the “go-getters” we always knew they were, we hope to change the scale of diversity, and have women not just play the game, but lead the sport.
Clarify your goals, your leadership profile, and your vision
Leverage your unique strengths
Craft a unique brand as a leader
Build trust with your stakeholders
Identify and express your worth
Influence and persuade key stakeholders to drive change
Navigate the complex world politics in sport and win elections
Lead aligned to your values
Leading in sports requires boldness, a vision, and the ability to execute on the right strategies. You will learn how to accomplish this.
Take smart and consistent action
We use ZOOM as the online video conference platform of choice. You’ll need a webcam, computer and microphone to interact and be a part of the discussions, ideally in a quiet place. We’ll also send you a participant’s manual, that you can print and have it at hand to follow the sessions (or download it and follow the exercises with pen/paper).
The program includes 4 live virtual sessions, 90 minutes each. Plus, you will be encouraged to invest 30-60 min more, per week , to set your goals and achieve results weekly and keep accountability.
You’ll have access to any training material for up to 3 months after you have finished the program.
We encourage you to register as early as possible because groups allow a maximum number of 24 participants.
Training days are:
Women Lead Sports in English for the rest of the world: February 3, 10, 17 and 24 in 2021, from 16 – 17:30 hrs CET.
Women Lead Sports Español Pan-América: Days and times in January 2021 to be announced soon (Enero 2021 hora por definir)
Future dates/groups will be posted on social media for enrollment, follow us @WomenLeadSports on Instagram.The WLS team will schedule programs within the next 12 months to suit all regions in the world. We also intend to run a program in French in 2021 for Africa and French-speaking countries. Stay tuned!
There are four core Modules in the WLS curriculum available for all plans, and we release one Module of topics/content per week, after the live virtual main class with your lead-Coach Gabriela Mueller, her experts, and guests. Depending on the membership you choose, each module will include some or all of the following elements: exercises/reference sheets to download, exercises to continue developing your leadership style, 1-3 exclusive videos weekly, and a power Q&A session with your coach/or other experts. Those with the Platinum membership will have the chance to schedule their personal, one-on-one 30min strategy session with the lead-coach in a period no longer than 6 weeks after they finished their program.
In exceptional cases, and only if you notify the WLS team at least 7 days in advance , you will have the possibility to take that session in the upcoming program in the year 2021. This exception happens only once in the program.
This program was created based on 18 years of proven successful coaching record, empowering thousands of women in sports worldwide since 2007, in all 5 continents. It is a real Online training. It is not a webinar, where most participants listen passively. It is not a PowerPoint presentation online; you can get that on YouTube. This is a real “Live Virtual Leadership Training Gym” where your coach will ask you to practice, to get involved, to reflect, to take action, to get feedback, to train live, and to continue working after the session.
WLS is action-oriented, purpose-driven, and transformative. We deeply care about you — our leaders and active participants. You will get support between sessions, via email, and the inspiration to keep up on social media.
We’re constantly updating and improving every aspect of the program, so the program you will take is adapted to this Pandemic and Electoral Year.
Since we will go through the live program in real-time, we recommend between 2-3 hours per week to watch the training, complete your growth assignments, and — if you’d like — engage with us in the community/social media.
In WLS we do not cover how to secure funding, loans, or investment capital. Getting elected or winning elections is not a four-week linear event. Having said that, this program will effectively empower you to face the reality of the low presence of women in leadership in sports and do everything you can to overcome it. If you have specific questions, write to register@womenleadsports.com.
WLS is for women and supportive men who wish to lead or get actively involved as executors and decision-makers in their sport or sport organization.
Leaders and decision-makers in the sport who wish to get either re-elected or continue going up the ladder of leadership and aspire to evolve.
Sportswomen who are active / or former athletes and now are ready to get involved and lead/decide/make change happen in their sports, sports policies, or sport organizations.
Sportswomen who wish to learn how to deal better with media and build a strong personal brand.
WLS is for committed beginners and also for evolving sports leaders who want direction, clarity, and skills.
Our participants in similar past training solutions include Olympians, leaders, team leaders, entry-level professionals, countries and territories, heads of national, regional, and continental sports federations, associations, National Olympic Committees, International Sports Federation, head or members of commissions, and more.
About 85% of all Women who are now leading sports organizations or decision-making positions in commissions, associations, federations, and national Olympic committees have gone through different versions of our programs in the past 12 years. This solution actually works.
Women Lead Sports is not right if you’re looking for traditional webinar solutions. Our program isn’t right if you’re looking to market to your fellow participants. WLS is a pitch-free environment, we do not allow commercial, political, or religious information to be distributed among members during the program or on common social media platforms/communities.
It’s also not right if you belong to the training and coaching industry (training provider). While you might get ideas on how to replicate online training programs, we highly recommend developing your concept and trust you got unique value to add.
This experience is not right for you if you hope to learn by osmosis. WLS is for action-takers who understand that real change happens with consistent, focused effort over time.
This is not a suitable program for someone looking for a cookie-cutter “plug and play” system to lead or a magic bullet to winning.
No. While most of our students are women, we have a powerful and growing audience of male leaders worldwide who are aware of the role they can play to support women on their journey as leaders. They are welcome too.
Definitely. The program is built in such a way that includes and respects regional differences, Our teaching and coaching style respects and acknowledges cultural and regional differences and values the profile of each participant and their unique contribution. The tools and strategies are applicable and adaptable to each region. We trust participants to select the best course of action as they implement their action plans.
Yes. In 2021, we will offer a limited number of philanthropic scholarships in 2021. Stay tuned and subscribe to our newsletter to know more about the guidelines to apply and get an alert when it’s live.
We accept common credit cards including Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal.
For groups of five or more, we can also issue the possibility to pay via Bank transfer. Please email us at register@womenleadsports.com to get bank details and invoice.
If the issues are caused by Zoom or the WLS Team’s connection, we will re-initiate the session. Should the problem persist, we will suggest an alternative date to reconnect and offer the session. In case a participant’s connection fails or lacks the quality to connect, or brings in noise or interference to the session, we will kindly ask them to reconnect, check their tech requirements, and re-join when the problem is solved. Please check system requirements for ZOOM here.
After full completion of the entire program, you will get an electronic version of a Certificate of Completion, and a special mention on our social media platforms.
Have any questions? Please feel free to send us an email through this form or directly to info@womenleadsports.com.
