LIVE AUTHENTICALLY and LEARN CONSTANTLY

Focus on how ATHENA leaders continuously seek to understand and develop themselves.

• Being true to yourself
• Having inner clarity centered in core beliefs, grounded in ethics and honed through reflection
• A sense of purpose pursued with integrity
• Authenticity
• Continuous development of skills and competencies, regardless of level of achievement
• Understanding built on experience, intuition, and self-directed learning
• Ability to learn from role models, both negative and positive

BUILD RELATIONSHIPS and FOSTER COLLABORATION

Focus on how ATHENA leaders embrace and encourage others.

• Connecting genuinely with yourself and others around you
• Valuing the gifts that each individual brings
• Deepening understanding, awareness, and knowledge through diversity
• Encouraging participation from those who are often overlooked

ACT COURAGEOUSLY and ADVOCATE FIERCELY

Align with how ATHENA leaders live out their convictions.

• Willingness to stand alone, speak truth, and challenge the status quo
• Act honorably, consistent with your values, even when faces with fear or loss
• Passionate, personal devotion
• Tempered by respect and compassion, striving to be a powerful force for good

GIVE BACK and CELEBRATE

Demonstrate how ATHENA leaders contribute to their communities and memorialize shared experiences.

• Leaving a worthy legacy for your community and the world
• Recognizing success comes with responsibility to enrich the lives of others
• Generously devoting voice, position and resources to the greater good
• Strengthening bonds of unity through creative expression
• Memorializing moments, triumphant or tragic; sharing joyful or solemn reflection