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Caroline Tsay
CEO @ Compute Software
“Athena Alliance is tireless in its mission to bring valuable opportunities and indispensable resources to its membership. There are only actions and results—from matching me to stimulating board roles, promoting my company and my profile among industry leaders, to helping me make the most important business connections, when I think of any organization that is a must to be a part of, I first think of Athena Alliance.”
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Julie Cullivan
Chief Technology & People Officer @ ForeScout Technologies, Inc.; Board Director @ Axon; Board Advisor @ Brighton Park Capital
“The tools, activities, and support that Athena provides are all very practical and really designed to prepare women for the journey to the c-suite and the boardroom from beginning to end.”
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Sharmila Kassam
Strategic Business Consultant @ Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
“Athena Alliance clearly focuses on providing qualified women a constructive path to board seats by focusing on valuable content through salons and ease in networking and submitting for board seats, which in this virtual world stands out when networking is limited. The commitment to getting women on boards is pervasive in interactions with the Athena team and evident in the strategic collaboration with other organizations and networks with which I work to pursue this mission. It's refreshing to find a community aligned to help women and allow women to help each other. I'm very excited to be part of this community and dispel the confusion on seeking a board seat.”
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Astha Malik
VP of Go-to-Market Strategy; Planning and Enablement @ Zendesk; Board Director @ Greenhouse.io
“Athena and its world-class executive coaches was critical in getting me boardroom-ready. From opening doors to new business connections and board opportunities to providing much-needed guidance through the process, Athena prepared me to move into the boardroom.”
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Yvonne Wassenaar
CEO @ Puppet; Board Director @ Anaplan, Forrester
“Athena opened doors and created the network trust I needed to access opportunities that otherwise would have remained hidden, and then encouraged, (sometimes pushed when required) and supported me to go after them with the knowledge and mentorship of the broader Athena community.”
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Monika Saha
CMO @ Delphix
“My coach helped me cover a lot of ground and uncover a lot of "blind spots" that I didn't fully realize I had. I took a lot of notes (6 pages!) and I feel I have a much better understanding of what to think about on this journey.”
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Helen Yu
Founder & CEO @ Tigon Advisory; Board Advisor @ Pipestream
“There are some organizations that offer executive coaching, but none offer much of a hands-on journey experience all the way through the boardroom like Athena.”
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Beverly Cole
CEO & President @ Cole Renrick LLC; Board Director @ Founders First Capital Partners, Bank OZK
“Athena’s Virtual Salons provide invaluable information you won’t find in any book. I log in to listen, and suddenly topics I needed to know—but didn’t know I did not know—are being discussed.”
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Ebony Beckwith
EVP & Chief Philanthropy Officer @ Salesforce
“Athena Alliance has provided me with an amazing network of women who are actively serving on boards. Learning from their real world experiences has been invaluable in preparing me for my own board search.”
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Roli Saxena
Chief Customer Officer @ Brex; Board Director @ CultureAmp
“My time with my coach was one of the most impactful 90 min coaching sessions I have ever attended. I walked away learning a lot about resources available, blind spots in how I position myself and the voice/ tone I could improve on to be able to fully articulate the value I bring to a board.”
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Michele Bettencourt
Co-CEO @ He Said She Said Productions
“Being a member of the Athena Alliance has given me the opportunity to connect with a host of other like-minded professionals. I've had the immense pleasure of co-hosting a salon with Coco and learned so much in that exchange of ideas, experiences and strategies. None of this would have ever been possible were it not for the Athena Alliance and its supportive and engaging members.”
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Shikha Kashyap
CTO @ Syntelli Solutions
“My session with my coach was awesome. She gave me some great pointers to start thinking about my board journey.”
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Merline Saintil
COO, R&D and IT @ Change Healthcare; Board Director @ Lightspeed HQ, Banner Bank, ShotSpotter Inc.
“The question is, how do you get high-touch, one-on-one connections? Athena helps executives shape a board bio, tell their story, and connect to the right networks to ensure you are in the right place at the right time —all of which are difficult to do when you’re super busy.”
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Heidi Melin
CMO @ Workfront; Board Director @ SailPoint
“I am extremely grateful for all of the help. I leveraged the Athena website and the content related to Board Selection as I prepared for many conversations and interviews over the past few months.”
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Purvee Kondal, NACD.DC
Vice President @ Sephora, Board Advisor @ Sourcing Industry Group & RampRate
“Finding talented women leaders that were open to sharing and supporting other women was one of my initial reasons for joining Athena. Having joined it, I have gained so much valuable insights, support, and access that, as a minority woman leader, otherwise would have been less forthcoming. Athena has been paving the way to embrace diversity as a foundation and it has been refreshing to experience and be a part of.”
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Amy Bunszel
Senior Vice President, Design and Creation Products @ Autodesk; Board Director @ Pixelworks
“Athena has given me an incredibly high quality peer group to network with and learn from. The connections I’ve made through Athena are with people who truly care about supporting each other and have the wisdom and experience to add value.”
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Emmy Sobieski
Founder & CEO; Board Advisor @ Leaf Global Fintech
“I know Athena is behind many women, but Athena is behind me with such a strong forward force, that I feel like the only person you think about, the only person whose mission you are moving forward.”
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Beatriz Infante
CEO @ BusinessExcelleration; Board Director @ PriceSmart, Ribbon Communications, Liquidity Services Inc.; Board Advisor @ Rulai
“The transparency in offering up every opportunity that comes to Athena directly to their members allows us all to choose to put our names in the ring for consideration for any number of openings. In any other case, one has to hope to be called by a recruiter, or be in the right place at the right time with their network (presuming it's the right network).”
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Sylvie Veilleux
CIO @ Dropbox, Board Director @ Cinchy
“Athena Alliance was instrumental to me in preparing for board of director roles. Athena Alliance has provided me with the tools to position my value as a board member and a network I can trust and continue to learn from.”
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Pam Connealy
CFO @ Immunovant; Board Director @ Orchestra BioMed; Board Advisor @ Perfuse Therapeutics
“I have appreciated the coaching and Athena's help in connecting me to women that have come before me and paved the way for all of us to have the leadership and business impact we strive to achieve. Athena Alliance worked with me every step of the way to the boardroom that allowed me to be more board confident and a more board-connected leader.”
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Lybra Clemons
Chief Diversity Officer @ Twilio @ MAKERS Women, How Women Lead (Advisor)
“Athena Alliance has managed to curate some of the most relevant and engaging virtual salons for prospective board members. They aren’t your typical video webinars with a speaker, but rather experts from the Athena Alliance network who are engaging attendees around board specific topics. No lectures, more a like a dinner party on zoom.”
The Most Powerful Digital Community
Where business insights, a powerful network, and career opportunities intersect
The world is constantly evolving — your business education should, too. Athena is a SaaS-based executive community that makes it easy and accessible for women leaders to learn from their peers. As the first Executive-Education-as-a-Service platform, Athena delivers live and on-demand learning, coaching, networking, and access to career opportunities for the world’s top women leaders. From preparing for a board seat or a career transition to scaling a company and growing your team, Athena members are one-degree separated from the most pressing business insights, connections to other leaders, and access to career-transforming opportunities.
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Why Top Women Leaders Use Athena
Today’s leaders operate in a fast evolving world, faced with unprecedented challenges. Athena provides a robust network of support and learning, sourced from other top leaders. Members gain access to private coaching, transformative career opportunities, and the most current and advanced on-demand executive learning on the market.
Why Athena?
Rapidly scale your network
Athena offers an exclusive community of powerhouse women leaders. Members may proactively network with other executives who are at the top of their companies, their professions, and their industries — or join in intentional Salons dedicated to Community & Connecting.
In the digital world, our numbers are powerful — together we take 6 degrees of separation to 1 to support our goals and interests collectively and individually.
Our members are among the top women executives at
leading global companies:
Why Athena?
Work one-on-one with top-tier coaches
Each membership includes 2 hours of coaching to start. Athena coaches are top in their fields. From board selection and search experts to voice and presentation coaching and personal branding strategists, gain expert guidance to get closer to your goals.
Why Athena?
Learn from other top executives
Join Salons led by board directors and leaders from some of the world’s most notable brands, three times a week. Stay current on the topics that matter most when it comes to founding, scaling, investing, and operating a business. Topics range from the path to the boardroom, IPO, risk and compliance, financial acumen, entrepreneurship, investing, and more.
Engage in advanced learning
Athena Salons are available on-demand, designed for busy executives. Choose from recommended content targeted to your goals, or level up your executive expertise with hundreds of Salons created by your Athena peers.
Join a Learning Circle to deep-dive on specific topics with other members. Learning Circles offer members a blend of asynchronous executive learning and Socratic-style discussions to increase their knowledge in targeted areas. Or, join a Peer Group to exchange advice and learnings with other members with similar goals or interests.
Why Athena?
Access exclusive career opportunities
Board seats, CxO roles, advisory roles, and more. Athena shares every opportunity that comes our way with all members in our fully transparent model. We work directly with boards, private equity and venture firms, recruiting firms, and more. Narrow your search with our matching algorithm. View trends and quickly understand what you are, or are not, a fit for.
Experience exceptional support
Athena offers a blend of humans in the loop and technology to deliver an exceptional member success experience. Our hands-on member success team is always available for onboarding assistance or a live demo — but our support framework includes chat and email for instant virtual help as well.
Become a member
We’re looking forward to supporting you. Have a specific goal such as a board seat, promotion, or career transition? Add on an Accelerator at checkout for targeted, one-on-one support.
