ATHENA BLOG

With the U.S. midterms approaching, Andrea Bonime-Blanc led this month’s Ripped from the Headlines Salon on what’s at stake for business, democracy, and leadership.

After decades advising the world’s top leaders, Kelli Richards has a name for the invisible force shaping every room they enter. She calls it Leadership Resonance—and it may be the most underrated skill in leadership today.

Most founders wait until the business is “done” to call themselves an investor — but as Hilary DeCesare and Lilia Shirman revealed in a recent salon, that wait is quietly costing you the deals, rooms, and capital already trying to find you.

Career care is the new self-care — but most of us have never budgeted a minute for it. Coco Brown dives into why a 60-year career deserves the same deliberate maintenance we give our bodies and minds.

Most founders can’t answer the one question that matters: is it actually working? Priya Narula breaks down why that silence is a structural problem, not a motivation one — and the simple two-metric system that fixes it.

At this month’s Ripped from the Headlines salon, Andrea Bonime-Blanc led members in a discussion on global democracy and its business implications, with a focus on trust in elections ahead of the 2026 U.S. midterms.