Our Stories

Over a four-month period, women from many organizations came together to use their collective brains to investigate what can be done to help women leaders in education in our community. What we discovered was that there are many groups and individuals who are...

Why is storytelling a must-have leadership skill? Leadership is the art of inspiring others to make a story come true. Therefore, if you’re leading people, you’re telling them a story. Of course, your story might not be connecting as deeply as you’d like, and that’s...

How many of us are driven by schedule, time, other’s demands or a pre-conceived notion of “I must do this because….” How would we transpose this life-style to a pilgrimage? A weekend of silence? An encounter with an undiscovered road? What would we do with our...

Mariaon Douglas provided unique insight into the importance of trust and boundaries in our relationships. Conversations are important in building trust, setting boundaries and strengthening relationships.

In our last women's leadership meeting we brought in the topic of MeToo that went through social media prior to our event. MeToo is powerful because it is showing the size of the issue, from the abuse, to the power plays, to accepted conversations that treat women as...

ATHENA International President, Andrea Conner made the cover of SHE POWER magazine in China.  SHE POWER educates and connects women mentees and mentors together to grow women leadership in China.  Andrea Conner was a speaker at SHE POWER'S women's conference earlier...

Martha Mertz and Patricia Wheat started off our meeting discussing the ATHENA Leading from Within program that they teach at Perryville women's prison in Glendale.  In numbers 67% of the inmates once released end up returning, however the women that complete the...