19 August 2011
Joni is the Regional Director of Athena Bristol. She started her career as a psychologist researching how we learn to communicate. This interest led her to train teachers and business people, write books, run a global chain of schools and finally set up her own highly successful language school in Oxford. Then in 2001 she [...]
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19 August 2011
Shortly after starting a new business with her husband, Rachel joined the Athena Network in September 2010 in the hope it might create some sales leads. What she hadn’t expected was the overwhelming support, friendship, positive energy and phenomenal networking being an Athena member would also bring. It was this experience and the desire to [...]
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05 August 2011
Gayle Edwards, The Breakthru’ Diva, is a Trainer, Facilitator and Speaker whose passion lies in helping others to wake up to their own greatness – not someone else’s as dictated by the media, their family, their careers or even their spouse’s but their own innate and unique gifts. Gayle’s flair for communications and her entrepreneurial [...]
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27 July 2011
The Athena Network, UK’s premier business networking organization for women will be launching in Singapore on September. A huge success in the UK since 2005, The Athena Network was founded by Jacqueline Rogers to provide business women with opportunities to meet like-minded women from a wide range of industry sectors. The network has now grown [...]
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21 June 2011
The Henley group of The Athena Network celebrated 5 years of brilliant networking this month. Members – some who have been with the group for 3, 4 or even 5 years, and some who joined more recently – and visitors gathered at Badgemore Park Golf Club to celebrate this special event. Everyone wore a splash [...]
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15 June 2011
The Athena Network North Oxford group celebrated its 2nd birthday in the pink! Members dressed with a touch of pink, and toasted each others’ success with pink fizz and pink birthday cake. There were some novel and memorable Monthly Minutes, which included a singalong and several poems. Members took the opportunity to donate bras to [...]
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05 June 2011
Is your business networking message clear? Does it grab the attention? Does it elicit the response – ‘tell me more’? Are you attracting new clients and lucrative referrals?
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26 May 2011
Athena is launching a new “Cappuccino Connections” for Henley-on-Thames. This informal networking event will be taking place monthly from Tuesday 7th June, on the 1st Tuesday of each month, 10am to midday. Our new venue is Le Parisien Restaurant, 50 Bell Street, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 2BG. Cappuccino Connections is free for Athena members (just buy your [...]
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26 May 2011
Members of The Athena Network in South Oxfordshire recently joined a group of supporters abseiling to raise money for SeeSaw, the child bereavement charity. They abseiled 100ft down The John Radcliffe Hospital building in Oxford. The weather on the day made the challenge even more difficult, with high winds which blew the abseilers about and [...]
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25 May 2011
Reading Athena has more than quadrupled its membership in the last six months and is consequently launching a new Reading Central group. On 9th June, leading Happiness Expert, Alexandra Watson will be the guest speaker at the launch of the new group. Alexandra has coached celebrities including Leona Lewis of X Factor fame, is a [...]
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“Belonging to Athena has been tremendous for me. I have now been a member for 2 years and it continues to inspire, challenge and motivate me.
Through Athena I have become part of a supportive and dynamic business community, developed strategic partnerships with other members, identified a range of suppliers who I work with, and of course most importantly of all I’ve grown my business significantly.
I have developed marketing campaigns for a number of members, and through Athena I established a connection with a member who is now a significant ongoing client, earning me thousands of pounds over the last 18 months.
I’ve been challenged and stimulated at the Regional and National Athena Conferences and of course enjoyed turkey dinner and entertainment at the fabulous Christmas lunches!
My friends and family laugh when they ask me about a new contact I’ve made, or someone else I’m raving about “Of course I know her from Athena” they hear time and again.
My Athena journey has been amazing and I can’t wait for the next chapter.”
Caroline Walker,
Unleash Marketing and Tring Athena member
