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Built in sport.Proven under pressure.

When the plan falls apart, these eight skills decide how you show up. Sport sharpens them, and anyone can learn them for work and life.

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Translating Across Contexts Collective Discipline Absorbing Pressure Leading Without Authority Feedback Responsiveness Recovery After A Setback Creating Options Under Constraint Bravery

Every plan looks sound until pressure arrives.

Then you have to take unwanted feedback, recover from mistakes while everyone's watching, work with people who see things differently, find a new path when one closes, and speak up when silence feels safer.

These eight Impact Skills shape how you handle those moments. Sport builds them through constant, visible pressure, and they go with you into every room you'll ever work in. Each is learnable, backed by research, and yours to develop.

Built in sportBacked by researchProven to matterYours to build

94%

of women in the C-Suite surveyed by EY and espnW had played competitive sport.

Sport never just taught them a game. It forged eight skills in the heat of real pressure until they held firm. Now that same strength is yours to build.

Source: EY & espnW, "Where Will You Find Your Next Leader?"

The 8 Impact Skills