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AI-driven executive search. Same trusted expertise, now amplified.
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Athena Executive Search & Consulting is a retained executive search and leadership consulting firm with a global network. We help boards and promoters worldwide hire and develop CEO, CXO, CHRO and board-level leaders across BFSI, manufacturing, technology and consumer sectors, backed by deep research and a partner-led process on every mandate.
23% more profitable
Business units with top-quartile employee engagement consistently outperform the rest on profitability.
We assess for the leadership behaviours that lift engagement, not just the track record, so the leader we place raises the team they inherit.
70% of engagement
The direct manager alone accounts for the majority of the variance in a team’s engagement.
Our shortlists are built around judgement and how a leader actually builds a team, because the manager is the variable that moves this number.
25% more likely
Companies with top-quartile gender-diverse executive teams are more likely to beat peers on profitability.
Diverse slates are standard on every mandate, so the pool is widened before a shortlist is ever drawn.
36% more likely
The outperformance is even stronger for ethnically and culturally diverse leadership teams.
Partners in 45 countries let us map talent well beyond the obvious local pool, which is where cultural and ethnic depth is actually found.
~$1 trillion a year
Poorly managed CEO and C-suite transitions erase close to a trillion dollars in S&P 1500 market value every year.
We run succession mapping and readiness assessment before a seat opens, rather than starting a search once it already has.
Up to 2x salary
Replacing a senior leader can cost up to twice their annual salary, before the hit to momentum and morale.
Partner-led assessment and a landing plan that runs to month twelve, because the real cost sits in the hire that does not stay.
A retained executive search record boards worldwide trust.
Boutique executive search, global reach.
To be the world’s most trusted name in executive search and leadership consulting.
We were built to move past transactional recruitment. Guided by our values, we aim to stand among the world’s most respected executive search and leadership advisory firms, earned one mandate at a time.
Why boards choose Athena for executive search.
Athena is truly global, partnering with boards worldwide through a network of 350+ executive search consultants across 45 countries, from the Americas to EMEA and Asia Pacific.
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