Expand your career with Athena Academy
Athena Academy combines community and skill-building in an intimate, cohort-based environment. Whether you’re advancing your executive path, pursuing board service, navigating a transition, or shaping your next chapter, our expert-led courses are tailored to unlock your full potential. Explore offerings that align with your goals and build your unique Portfolio of Impact™.
Courses
Board Readiness
Designed for aspiring board directors and strategic executives alike, this course offers a comprehensive, two-part curriculum: first, understand the full spectrum of board leadership across company types; then, craft your unique board value, grow your network, and prepare for board interviews with confidence. Taught by seasoned board members, you’ll gain insider insights, practical tools, and lasting connections to help you step into the boardroom with clarity and purpose. Support continues beyond the course through peer groups, office hours, and ongoing guidance to ensure you stay on track in your board journey.
Unleash Your Impact: Executive Excellence
Even athletes at the top of their game rely on coaches to continually hone their performance and sharpen their effectiveness. High performance leaders, those looking to harness the next big opportunity, need the same. Crafted for senior leaders aiming higher within the corporate ecosystem, this program is equally relevant for women looking to build their own business or play bigger within their field. Led by top Athena coaches and leadership experts, this course provides the secret sauce of how to combine your technical expertise with effective presence and leadership skills. Unleash Your Impact helps your break through, by providing a roadmap to move from competence to high impact leadership at the top levels of any organization.
Architect Your Next Chapter
Whether you’re navigating an unexpected transition or intentionally seeking your next move, this course offers a transformative space to explore what’s next with clarity and purpose. Through guided reflection, unlearning outdated narratives, and reconnecting with your core values, you’ll uncover new pathways rooted in meaning, joy, and personal power. You’ll emerge with a renewed sense of direction, a deeper connection to your impact, and a custom-built “wheel of impact” to guide your next chapter with confidence.
Venture Fluency
Venture-backed companies drive the majority of innovation and wealth creation, yet women remain vastly underrepresented in this space—receiving just 2% of venture capital and rarely holding decision-making power in an investment system dominated by white, male elites. As women increasingly become primary earners and prepare to inherit $30 trillion in wealth, now is the time to shift from wealth protectors to smart capital allocators who shape the future. This course offers a practical, empowering path for senior women leaders to gain the tools, knowledge, and confidence to invest in private markets, claim board and advisory roles, and build a more equitable financial future.
Build a Company
This course turns the entrepreneurial spirit into an actionable plan to build a company from the ground up. Explore the essentials required to build a company to scale, including business modeling, incorporation, equity, fundraising, product market fit, orchestration of team hiring, and more.
Weekly Engagement: Connect with Athena leadership, your cohort, and faculty through collaborative sessions and weekly office hours.
Weekly Office Hours: The weekly office hours event provides an excellent opportunity for participants to receive extra support and advice from our course facilitators who are also experienced board directors, investors, and executive coaches. Participants can ask follow-up questions related to the course material, seek guidance on specific challenges they may be facing, and receive additional insights.
Certificate of Completion: You’ll receive a certificate of completion sent to you via email. You’ll also be provided with a digital badge of completion to upload to your LinkedIn profile.
Ongoing Course Access: Join any future cohort as an auditor to revisit key topics, catch up on missed modules, and stay engaged with the Academy’s dynamic community.
Quarterly Private Salons: Participate in exclusive and intimate discussions with leading industry experts.
Cohort Communication Channel: Connect with your peers through a dedicated space for networking, sharing insights, and continuing the conversation beyond the course.
All the Benefits of Membership: an on-demand library, frequent in-person events, a range of Peer Groups, ongoing Salons, and 1:1 live personalized support to make the connections you need to move forward.
The Athena Academy Experience
Athena Academy courses are far more than traditional learning experiences — they are fully immersive, comprehensive programs designed to elevate your growth and engagement. Each program is built around content-rich sessions that include expert-led core instruction and dynamic office hours. But the experience goes well beyond this foundation.
Add on personalized support to create your documents with an experienced executive and board recruiter or to receive 1:1 coaching with top executive coaches. Our holistic, proven approach ensures you take advantage of all Athena has to offer in service to your goals. To learn more about our package offerings and pricing, book a membership consultation today.
Featured Faculty
Learn from some of the top leadership and board experts in the world. We’ve thoughtfully selected a variety of faculty who offer diverse perspectives on executive leadership and board service that you won’t find anywhere else.
Current and past faculty include:
Board Experts
Colleen Brown
Nora Denzel
Shelly Lombard
Myrna Soto
Gail Marcus
Jeannie Diefenderfer
Jessica Lau
Rochelle Campbell
Leadership Experts
Monique Edwards
Lee Epting
Sheryl Kline
Jocelyn King
Julianna Hynes
Hillary Wicht
Erin Essenmacher
Coco Brown
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