ATHENA BLOG

Trillions of dollars are about to move from one generation to the next, and most of it is headed to women. Coco Brown explores what that shift makes possible and why finishing Gloria Steinem’s work means building something new instead of waiting for a seat.

If an AI agent acts in microseconds, who can prove what happened and in what order? Lori Salow Marshall makes the case for an evidentiary layer that works at the speed of the systems being governed.

From the UN Global Compact stage to a Danish Consulate evening, Andrea Bonime-Blanc returns from UNGA81 and Climate Week with her personal takes on climate, tech, and geopolitics.

We have no funerals for careers, no ceremonies for the day the badge stops working. Mariangela Zanchetta writes honestly about the grief that follows work’s endings, and why the wound is proof of how much you cared.

AI can give you a perfectly accurate answer to the wrong question, and catching that takes judgment, not code. Drawing on a recent salon conversation with Liat Ben-Zur, we look at why the leaders who’ve spent careers questioning the criteria may be best equipped for this moment.

Boards say they’re desperate for new skills, yet fewer of them are opening seats to find them. The leaders who break through anyway are the ones who get specific, not just qualified.