the career care ecosystem
Career care is self care
Athena is where high-achieving women build portfolio careers on their terms.
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WHY IT MATTERS NOW
Past success doesn’t guarantee future relevance
You’ve spent decades building the extraordinary. Your expertise, your network, your reputation — earned through hard-won experience.
And yet. The world is moving faster. The ladder you climbed is dissolving. The rules that rewarded talent and tenure are being rewritten.
The leaders who thrive over the next 20 years won’t be those who work harder. They’ll be those who invest in their career health. Because singularity is risk, and optionality is power.
The Ecosystem
Compose your portfolio
Athena is the first and only career care ecosystem for the women leading this shift — executives, board directors, investors, founders, thought leaders who understand that optionality is built, not waited for.
Not just a women’s network. Nor just an education platform. Nor just a board development program.
All of these things and more — integrated, intentional, and working for you in one place — so you can stop climbing someone else’s ladder and start composing your own portfolio.
A NEW MODEL FOR CAREER
The Portfolio of Impact™
The career ladder told you to climb. The Portfolio of Impact™ empowers you to expand. Five dimensions.
Five ways to create income, influence, and impact — to match where you are now and where you want to go next.
3.4 years average member tenure · 600+ members supported to board seats · NPS 86 · 71% quarterly platform engagement · 3.4 years average member tenure · 600+ members supported to board seats · NPS 86 · 71% quarterly platform engagement
"The conversations challenge my thinking in ways nothing else does. I always come away with a completely new perspective on what's possible."
Megan Barbier
CHRO, Advisor, Investor
TESTIMONIALS
What our members say

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.”

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.”

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.”

Purvee Kondal
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.”

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.”
Your career doesn't build itself.
It takes sustained investment — continuously, deliberately, over time. That means making career care a line item on your budget. Athena is where you invest it.