An iWIN Sports program · The Taylor LEAD Foundation
The iWIN Networking Collective
Turning athletic discipline into
unstoppable leadership momentum.
Most programs stop at graduation. This one starts there.
A membership community for women who played sport and are now doing something else with everything it taught them — building a career, taking on a first leadership role, changing direction, starting over. Founding membership is forming now.
Why this exists
The season ends and the infrastructure just stops.
For fifteen years there was a team, a schedule, a coach, and a room full of people who wanted the same thing you did. Then one day there is a job, an apartment, and nobody checking whether you turned up. Almost every organization working on women in sport pours its money into the years before that moment. Very little is built for the twenty years after it.
The identity goes first
Being an athlete is not a hobby you had. It is a large part of how you understood yourself, and losing it rarely gets treated as a real transition, because from the outside nothing has obviously happened.
Then the network thins
Teams are dense, high-trust networks that form without effort. Professional ones have to be built deliberately, usually by people who have never had to build one before.
And the skills go unnamed
Competing taught you to be coached, to lose in public, to lead people who did not pick you. Those are workplace skills. Most people never learn to say so out loud in a room where it counts.
Who it is for
You do not have to have been good at it.
There is no performance threshold here. If sport shaped how you work, this is for you — whether you finished at eighteen on a JV bench or played through college.
Women who competed, at any level
High school, club, college, adult league. The level is not the point; what you took from it is.
Young adults moving from athlete to professional
The years just after competing stops, when the structure disappears and nobody has told you what replaces it.
Women in a career transition
Changing fields, returning to work, stepping up to lead, or stepping back to work out what is next. Momentum is easier to find in company.
Coaches, educators and mentors — women and men
People already invested in the pipeline who want to stay connected to it, and to be findable by the women coming up behind them. This tier is open to men. A community built for women does not have to be closed to the people willing to open doors for them, and some of the most useful mentors in any woman’s career have not been women.
Membership
What you actually get.
- A community of women athlete-leaders across Idaho — people who do not need the sport part of your story explained.
- Mentorship connections with experienced women in business, civic life and athletics.
- Professional development and career readiness programming built for these specific transitions.
- Identity and wellness support through the changes that look small from outside and are not.
- Invitations to iWIN events, including the annual Change Make*Hers Gala.
- A seat at the table in a room that already speaks your language.
We would rather tell you the truth about where this is.
The Collective is being built now. There is not yet a large membership to join, and we are not going to describe one that does not exist. What there is: a platform, a clear purpose, an organization with real programming around it, and a list of women who have told us they want exactly this. Several of those conversations happened before we had anything to point them to.
Founding members shape what this becomes — what the sessions are, how often it meets, what would actually be useful at your stage. That is a genuine offer and a slightly demanding one. If you would rather arrive somewhere finished, come back in a year. If you would rather help build it, now is the only time that is possible.
Not to be confused
The Collective and LEAD Fellows are different things.
They sit next to each other in the pipeline and people mix them up, so here is the distinction in plain terms.
Open membership
Anyone who fits the description above can join. It is a community first — mentorship, development, and people who understand the transition you are in. You decide how much you want from it.
By nomination, with a term
A small advisory body of eight to twelve scholar-athlete leaders, nominated and appointed by the board, who advise the Foundation on its programming. Fellows are also welcome in the Collective. Most Collective members will never be Fellows, and that is by design.
About LEAD FellowsHow to join
The Collective lives on Mighty Networks.
A private, membership-based community platform — separate from social media, and not somewhere your feed follows you. Joining takes a few minutes and you can look around before you commit to anything.
The years right after competing stops — a first job, a graduate program, or working out what the next thing is.
Includes- The community feed and resource library
- Monthly Leadership Circles
- Direct-message networking
- Event and workshop discounts
- 7 Days to Your Authentic Brand Statement, self-paced
Doing the work well and starting to lead others. The stage where a network stops being nice to have.
Everything above, plus- Playbooks for Growth
- Power Circles
- Two masterminds a year
- Priority mentorship matching
- Early event registration
- The ability to propose and lead your own sessions
Established, leading, and in a position to open doors. Membership here helps carry the tiers below it.
Everything above, plus- Executive masterminds
- A Leadership Directory listing
- Speaker and mentor opportunities
- Concierge introductions
- Annual summit ticket and VIP reception
- Priority event seating
Annual membership works out cheaper than paying monthly at every level. Nine dollars a month is deliberate: an organization that argues cost should not decide who participates cannot then price its own community out of reach.
Backing it without joining it
Champion tiers, for allies and employers.
For people and organizations who want this to exist without needing a seat in it themselves. Both are open to men.
Champion
$250 a year- Ally recognition within the community
- Event discounts
- Impact updates
- The ability to gift a membership to someone who needs one
Corporate & ERG Champion
$2,500 a year- Five to ten transferable memberships for your team
- Workshop seats and summit tickets
- Co-branding opportunities
- Quarterly impact reporting
- VIP invitations
What happens when you join
You create a profile on the platform, tell us what you played and what you are working on now, and get access to the community and its programming as it comes online. Founding members hear about new sessions first.
If you would rather talk to a person
Reasonable. Email us and tell us where you are — what you played, what you are doing, what would actually be useful. That is genuinely helpful to us while the programming is still being shaped.
The iWIN Networking Collective
Ninety-four percent of women in the C-suite played sport. Almost none of them were handed a network afterwards.
They built one. This is an attempt to make that considerably less lonely, and to start it a decade earlier.
Turning athletic discipline into unstoppable leadership momentum.
The iWIN Networking Collective is a program of iWIN Sports, a platform of The Taylor LEAD Foundation.