| ATHENA Speakers Bureau
Supporting, Developing and Honoring Women Leaders
Looking for outstanding, professional speakers who specialize in women’s topics? Need a dynamic, motivational speaker for your upcoming event, conference, or trade show? The ATHENA International Speakers Bureau is available to provide speakers on a variety of topics.
Each one of our speakers inspires, motivates and represents the leadership attributes, the tenets, of ATHENA International. Each is an accomplished speaker with professional career expertise and has a strong interest in helping to inspire other women to reach their full leadership potential. Our bureau professionals offer topics that include women in leadership, women in business, the ATHENA Leadership Model and other key presentations.
Our speakers bureau is comprised of women leaders from around the world who are professional and motivational speakers and members of the ATHENA International Board of Directors. The honorarium will be paid to Athena International.
Please contact the speaker directly to arrange for bookings and travel arrangements.
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Chris Brown is president and owner of Marketing Resources & Results, Inc., a full service marketing firm that provides strategic marketing planning and marketing services. She has over 20 years of experience in marketing, with a strong background in branding, online marketing and social media. Chris is known for her ability to share innovative and practical marketing techniques that help companies grow their businesses. More...
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Dianne Dinkel is president of ATHENA International, Inc. She has over 25 years of progressive leadership experience in non-profit organizations in budgeting, financial management and strategic planning. In addition to serving ATHENA International as Fiscal Director, prior to taking her current position, her experience included VP of Business Affairs and CFO of the Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago, Sr. VP for Administration of Concordia University, and VP for Administration of Grand Canyon University. Dianne is known for being a results-oriented leader, creative problem-solver and strong communicator. More...
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Catherine Lee has addressed groups in the emerging markets of Asia and Latin America and Europe and Canada since 1990. Catherine has given speeches focused on negotiations, international and from a woman’s advantage, women in business and working effectively across diverse cultures. Her range of audiences spans the Ministers of the China government to Polish American Women in business. The appeal of her stories, her humor and her insights transcend cultures, ages, and experience motivating attendees to learn and to act. More...
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Martha Mayhood Mertzis founder of ATHENA International which seeks a balance in leadership by opening leadership opportunities for women throughout the world. Developing and teaching from the ATHENA Leadership Model, she has given voice and significance to the unique characteristics that women bring to leadership. She considers it her privilege to function as the ambassador for ATHENA since it began. Her travels on behalf of the organization have taken her to hundreds of cities in the U.S. and around the globe. More...
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Patricia Pierce serves as a state Commissioner on the Tennessee Human Rights Commission. She recently retired after almost thirty years from VanderbiltUniversity where she managed a buget of approximately a million dollars and directed a staff of eleven. She was responsible for matters related to equity and diversity. She conducted training programs, served as a fact finder and mediator of disputes and conflicts, and served as a liaison for the University with outside organizations and agencies. More...
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Norma Rist is president of Norma J. Rist CEO Consulting, Inc., a company that provides strategic growth and profitability solutions. She has over 20 years of experience in marketing, operations and financial management. Her management experience includes positions as controller for a $200 million division of a public corporation and vice president and general manager for a $40 million manufacturing and wholesale company, Pepsi-Cola Bottlers of Akron, Inc. Norma is known for her ability to develop realistic, down-to-earth techniques to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses. More...
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Ellen Ruddock is a retired entrepreneur with experience in education, sales andfundraising. She has founded, operated and sold a successful retail business and an award-winning consulting firm.Ellen’s role as consultant involved helping business owners and community leaders of Western Pennsylvania develop strategic plans and strengthen their leadership teams.She was raised in a family real estate business where her love of business began.Ellen currently serves asDirector of the Center for Family Business at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. More...
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Ilene Shapiro is an accomplished entrepreneur and experienced business leader with a history of successful ventures for a variety of high-growth, turn around, and start up organizations. Ms Shapiro is a skilled, dynamic, energetic motivator who inspires, stimulates, leads change, and “grows the top line” while deftly managing the “bottom line”. Ilene is actively engaged with international companies seeking to establish a US presence in Ohio. After 15 years as a successful entrepreneur, Ms Shapiro served as Senior Vice President for Sales for FirstMerit, a 10B financial services organization and is currently an “intrapreneur” for the third largest health care system in the State of Ohio, Summa Health System. Additionally, Ms Shapiro is a Summit County, Ohio elected official. More...
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Yvonne Wood is a founding member and past Chair of the Tennessee Economic Council on Women, and continues to serve on its Executive Committee. During her first career with the State of Tennessee, she was Director of the Federal-State Medicaid Program Integrity Unit, where she won two national awards for detecting Medicaid fraud and abuse. As Associate Director for Government Relations for the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, and Director of the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation, she contributed to and wrote several pieces of legislation acted into law, among which makes scholarships available to Tennessee’s most talented students, and a law mandating a two step pay increase to employees who successfully complete the CPS exam. More...
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