ATHENA International Women’s Leadership Day
September 18, 2012
Pinnacle Hills Country Club
The Bentonville/Bella Vista Chamber of Commerce has partnered with ATHENA International to host a ‘meet and mentor’ program designed to connect emerging and established women leaders in our community.
The premise of this program is simple: an established woman leader invites an emerging woman leader as her guest to dine, meet other women leaders, and share ideas about leadership. It goes beyond a networking event to provide an intimate forum for established and emerging women leaders to make meaningful and lasting connections with one another.
A key component of the program is its incorporation of the ATHENA Leadership Model. “Today, in more ways and places than at any other time in human history, women are leaders. But what’s important isn’t just that women lead. What’s important is how women lead —let’s recognize this ‘women’s way’ for what it is: a distinctive, transforming approach to leadership. It goes beyond gender to speak to all who would lead in the 21st century,” says Martha Mertz, ATHENA International founder and author of Becoming ATHENA: Eight Principles for Enlightened Leadership.
The event, hosted by the Bentonville/Bella Vista Chamber of Commerce, is licensed by ATHENA International and underwritten by presenting sponsor Walmart.