Transition Support Initiative

The 12-month Career Support Program pilot was designed as a targeted transition support initiative for women coaches and aspiring high performance leaders. It supported participants who were returning to coaching, moving into leadership roles, re-entering the workforce, navigating career uncertainty, or exploring broader career opportunities within the high performance sport system.

• The Career Support Program Pilot was conducted throughout 2025-26, with the full report and executive summary below.
• What is proposed is the Transition Support Initiative, a future-facing, business-as-usual model for supporting women coaches through transition.
• The Transition Support Initiative is a strategic retention mechanism designed to address the Leaky Pipeline within the high performance (HP) sport system, where women are disproportionately lost at key career transition points.
• This support program can be adapted for organisations and system leaders to adopt into other contexts.

For: Organisations, Individuals, Coach Development Leaders and Facilitators, Coach Educators.