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Senior leadership, delivered at scale

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Retained Executive Search

A Global Executive Search & Leadership Consulting Firm

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.

Confidential · Research-led · Partner-led
Our Services

How we help you hire and lead

01

Search Services

Retained search for the roles that shape your company’s future.

  • Executive Search
  • Board Member Search
  • Diversity Search
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02

Consulting Services

Intelligence and benchmarking that de-risk every leadership decision.

  • Talent Mapping
  • Market Intelligence
  • Compensation Benchmarking
  • Persona Due Diligence
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03

Scenario Expertise

Specialist partners for your highest-stakes transitions.

  • India Entry
  • International Expansion
  • Transformation & Transition
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04

Board & Diversity Search

Independent directors and diverse, inclusive leadership for the boardroom.

  • Independent Directors
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Governance Advisory
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05

Leadership Advisory

Assessment, succession and development that build lasting bench strength.

  • Leadership Assessment
  • Succession Planning
  • Executive Development
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The evidence

Leadership decisions shape every part of the business.

Gallup

23% more profitable

Business units with top-quartile employee engagement consistently outperform the rest on profitability.

Gallup, State of the Global Workplace
Gallup

70% of engagement

The direct manager alone accounts for the majority of the variance in a team’s engagement.

Gallup, State of the American Manager (2015)
McKinsey

25% more likely

Companies with top-quartile gender-diverse executive teams are more likely to beat peers on profitability.

McKinsey, Diversity Wins (2020)
McKinsey

36% more likely

The outperformance is even stronger for ethnically and culturally diverse leadership teams.

McKinsey, Diversity Wins (2020)
HBR

~$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.

Harvard Business Review (2021)
SHRM

Up to 2x salary

Replacing a senior leader can cost up to twice their annual salary, before the hit to momentum and morale.

SHRM; U.S. Department of Labor
Why Athena

The Athena difference

01 Achievements

A retained executive search record boards worldwide trust.

  • 450+ CEO, CXO and board searches across industries
  • 250+ leadership consulting and talent advisory engagements
  • AESC-certified in retained executive search
02 Strength

Boutique executive search, global reach.

  • Partner-led executive search on every mandate, end to end
  • 350+ executive search consultants across 45 countries
  • Research-led shortlists, never database pulls
03 Our Vision

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.

04 Why Us?

Why boards choose Athena for executive search.

  • A tailor-made executive search methodology, never a template
  • Full transparency across the search lifecycle
  • Uncompromising standards of ethics and candidate care
Global Reach

Global perspective, local insight

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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