What becomes possible when accomplished women think together

The Athenae is a thoughtfully curated collective: a place for accomplished women to exchange ideas, sharpen one another's thinking and put hard-won experience to work.

For organisations, it offers a trusted way to bring that depth of judgement to the challenges that matter.

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Bring what you know. Find your people. Shape what comes next.

Join a deliberately small collective of accomplished women building trusted relationships, exchanging ideas and creating new possibilities together.

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Bring us your challenge.

We bring together women who have solved versions of it before, combining experience from different fields to offer clear, practical thinking.

Not reinvention. Recognition.

Lynn Mackay-Thomas, founder of The Athenae

Note from the founder

I started The Athenae because I keep meeting women whose depth, judgement and experience deserve to carry further. The Athenae is for them, for us, and for what our experience can become next. 

Lynn Mackay-Thomas, Founder

Membership & Private Community

A curated membership for accomplished women who want to be seen more clearly, connect more meaningfully and stay close to ideas, opportunities and relationships that matter.

Strategic Sprints & Advisory Support

Strategic support for organisations seeking clarity, repositioning, stronger engagement or fresh momentum. The Athenae offers experienced counsel, sharp thinking and practical collaboration across strategy, partnerships, communications, leadership and growth.

The Athenae is designed to help women recognise their value more fully and carry it further, and to help organisations engage the depth, judgement and transferable capability they bring.

Membership

A curated space for support, visibility and connection.

Salons & Conversations

Thoughtful spaces to think, share and engage with other accomplished women.

Strategic Advisory

Experienced support for organisations seeking clarity, capability and fresh perspective

What you have to give matters. The Athenae is where it reaches further,

into rooms, conversations and possibilities you may not yet have thought possible.

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Discover your Athenae archetype

Fifteen statements, seven minutes

Fifteen statements will reveal what is distinctive about the way you think and influence - and what you bring when you work alongside other accomplished women.

The Founding Circle Opens 27th September

A deliberately small circle of accomplished women will shape what The Athenae becomes, the waitlist hears first.

Whether you are exploring The Athenae for yourself or for your organisation, we would love to hear from you

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