| ATHENA World Cafe®
Supporting, Developing and Honoring Women Leaders
Based on the ATHENA Leadership Model®, the ATHENA World Café reinforces the importance of connecting with each other through meaningful dialogue and discussion. Like a café, an informal, comfortable atmosphere is created that invites reflection and sharing of ideas on leadership. The session is designed to be interactive, allowing participants to listen, express and develop their views. It is through conversation and shared experiences that individual and organizational change is created.
The ATHENA Leadership Model®, developed through a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, identifies eight distinct attributes that are reflective of women’s contributions to leadership: Authentic Self, Relationships, Giving Back, Collaboration, Courageous Acts, Learning, Fierce Advocacy, Celebration and Joy. These personal traits that are more intuitive to women, and combined with the strongest aspects of traditional leadership—taking risks, assertiveness, hard work—prepare women to be successful leaders in the 21st century.
We know the value of emerging and transformative styles of leadership that are closely tied to the intuitive strengths that women bring to leadership. The ATHENA Leadership Model® captures these principles for use in contemporary settings, while acknowledging that they have been handed down from women across the world and over generations. In short, the ATHENA Leadership Model® meets the needs of emerging leaders and speaks convincingly to women leaders who will head the organizations of the future.
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