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Athena Speaker Directory
FIND TOP STEM SPEAKERS

Explore Athena's diverse talent roster to find the right STEM Speaker for your next event, conference, or board retreat. Securing a diverse conference speaker lineup requires lots of intentional work and this one-stop directory offers decades of experience among these female thought leaders in STEM. Directly contact any of these dynamic speakers to capture the unique perspectives from these leaders.

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Holly Smithson

President/CEO

Athena STEM Women

Your Global Leadership Lab Athena's members-only, digital library offers on-demand, leadership development content produced exclusively by STEM women and their male allies. Athena Global Access grants 24/7 access to the latest knowledge-transfer and industry trends on women’s leadership and male allyship across the STEM economy.

Mentorship & Career Development

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Kat Delapena

Program Specialist

Athena

The Athena Academy offers companies multi-part workshops that provide training and tools for women in STEM and their male allies. ​ The Athena Academy supports the transition for STEM professionals that realize career advancement requires much more than academic knowledge obtained through higher learning institutions. It requires self-awareness and an investment of time to identify and acquire key professional skills essential to advancing your leadership development.

Leadership Skills & Coaching

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Sheri Carr

President/CEO

Chief Marketects

Your Athena member experience comes with a variety of platforms to significantly build your leadership skills, strategically broaden your network and cultivate your personal brand. Athena’s portfolio of 50 annual leadership programs is driven by its committees, comprised entirely of Athena members. Central to the success of these programs are the leaders that pursue a committee assignment and bring their time, talent, and treasure to the committees’ success. ​ Athena members who join these committees lean into leadership by helping with program management, content creation, access to key opinion leaders, domain expertise, and social media campaigns with the goal of educating our STEM community to achieve accelerated professional success. Each Leadership Program Committee produces 3-4 programs annually and meets once monthly. Committees are open to all Athena members.

Citizenship Law, Mentorship & Career Development, Leadership Skills & Coaching

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Sophia Harrell

Director of Programs & Strategic Partnerships

Athena STEM

Athena’s ASIG Committee produces career advancement programs that provide strategies, tools and targeted networking that aid in accelerating early to mid-career paths across all STEM sectors. These programs offer techniques and resources tailor-made for rising managers intent on achieving their career ambitions quicker and smarter.

Work-Life Integration

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Nick Fisher

VP

Chief Marketects

United in a shared vision - advancing 1 million women in STEM by 2030 - Athena's Male Allyship Committee produces educational programs to identify practical steps to support and elevate female colleagues, address the roadblocks that male allies face in taking action, broadly promote and disseminate this information to activate more male across the STEM community.

Leadership Skills & Coaching, Mentorship & Career Development, Work-Life Integration, Citizenship Law

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Holly Smithson

President/CEO

Athena STEM Women

Mentorship & Career Development

Your Global Leadership Lab
Athena's members-only, digital library offers on-demand, leadership development content produced exclusively by STEM women and their male allies.

Athena Global Access grants 24/7 access to the latest knowledge-transfer and industry trends on women’s leadership and male allyship across the STEM economy.

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Sheri Carr

President/CEO

Chief Marketects

Citizenship Law, Mentorship & Career Development, Leadership Skills & Coaching

Your Athena member experience comes with a variety of platforms to significantly build your leadership skills, strategically broaden your network and cultivate your personal brand. Athena’s portfolio of 50 annual leadership programs is driven by its committees, comprised entirely of Athena members.

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Nick Fisher

VP

Chief Marketects

Leadership Skills & Coaching, Mentorship & Career Development, Work-Life Integration, Citizenship Law

United in a shared vision - advancing 1 million women in STEM by 2030 - Athena's Male Allyship Committee produces educational programs to identify practical steps to support and elevate female colleagues, address the roadblocks that male allies face in taking action, broadly promote and disseminate this information to activate more male across the STEM community.

AthenaLogoMASTER_2024-01.png

Kat Delapena

Program Specialist

Athena

Leadership Skills & Coaching

The Athena Academy offers companies multi-part workshops that provide training and tools for women in STEM and their male allies.

The Athena Academy supports the transition for STEM professionals that realize career advancement requires much more than academic knowledge obtained through higher

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Sophia Harrell

Director of Programs & Strategic Partnerships

Athena STEM

Work-Life Integration

Athena’s ASIG Committee produces career advancement programs that provide strategies, tools and targeted networking that aid in accelerating early to mid-career paths across all STEM sectors. These programs offer techniques and resources tailor-made for rising managers intent on achieving their career ambitions quicker and smarter.

Holly Smithson

President/CEO

Athena STEM Women

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Sophia Harrell

Director of Programs & Strategic Partnerships

Athena STEM

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Kat Delapena

Program Specialist

Athena

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Nick Fisher

VP

Chief Marketects

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President/CEO

Chief Marketects

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