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Consulting & Advisory

Strategy is only as good as the people who run it

Talent mapping, due diligence, market intelligence and compensation benchmarking — the evidence behind every leadership decision.

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Talent mappingwho exists, and where
Persona due diligencebefore you commit
Market intelligenceentry and expansion

End-to-end talent & leadership advisory

We deliver unique, end-to-end talent management solutions and help build enduring corporate cultures, with a dedicated team of experts advising on every growth objective.

Our specialists conduct comprehensive studies of each client’s business agenda — translating strategy into the leadership and organisation design that delivers it.

Our Impact

Consulting, measured in outcomes

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What We Do

Our Consulting Offerings

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Talent Mapping

  • Athena’s Talent Supply Chain Solution (ATSS) offers a proactive program to elevate talent acquisition operations.
  • The Talent Mapping process ensures clients are “Hire-Ready”, especially in growth and succession-planning scenarios.
  • ATSS maintains a pipeline for specific and niche talent as a virtual bench and talent topography.
  • Projects run on a real-time, highly intuitive cloud platform for complete transparency and monitoring.
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Market Intelligence

  • As a strategic advisor, Athena delivers customized services that minimise the business risks of new market entry.
  • New-market ventures face challenges across competition, geography, talent dynamics, budget and feasibility.
  • Meticulous market intelligence is key to weighing strengths, weaknesses and opportunities on entry.
  • Our experience gives global clients actionable insight into feasibility, talent topographies, comparative landscapes and compensation benchmarks.
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Persona Due Diligence

  • Athena’s unique Persona Due Diligence minimises business, cultural and reputational risks in transaction-based scenarios.
  • A comprehensive 360-degree target view covering human-capital / skill-gap evaluation and reputational-risk assessment.
  • We assess the ‘people’ potential of the target firm through extensive primary and secondary research.
  • In select cases we act as exclusive advisors to identify acquisition targets for M&A transactions.
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Compensation Benchmarking

  • Compensation and competitive benchmarking governed by real-time, accurate and targeted data.
  • Enables clients to make actionable decisions on their employee acquisition and retention blueprint.
  • Expertise in tailor-made comparator pools specific to each client’s business challenge.
  • A comprehensive, consultative analysis that delivers profound, actionable recommendations.
Leadership Intelligence

Clarity and control for every leadership decision

Get a clear, structured view of your leadership capital — from talent mapping and assessment to succession insight and future opportunity, all in one place.

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Total talent visibility

Every role and every candidate, clearly structured in one view — a unified picture of your leadership pipeline across functions and geographies.

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Precision assessment

Rigorous, research-led evaluation of fit, capability and risk. Assess senior talent with deeper insight across real business scenarios.

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Global reach intelligence

A 350+ consultant network across 45 countries — talent, market and compensation intelligence, mapped in real time.

Engagement Overview
250+
Consulting assignments delivered
Sectors6Consultants350+Countries45
Delivered at Scale
450+
Executive search assignments executed
Consulting250+Years25+AESCMember
Global Reach
45
Countries covered worldwide
Network350+MarketsAPAC·EMEA·US

How we help you

Athena's ATSS solution has been deployed by clients to augment large-size and niche skills for short- and long-term hiring needs
Our uniqueness in conducting Compensation Benchmarking is in our non-participative, discreet, and primary research approach that ensures real-time and accurate data capturing. Our advisory and prescriptive analytical capabilities intertwined in the process enable organizations to leverage insights that help them make informed decisions and business strategies
We have conducted Persona Due Diligence for our clients in scenarios of M&As and for a significant number of PE/VC portfolios. The need arose when one of our clients conducted a comprehensive commercial and forensic due diligence on their acquisition/investment target and post the acquisition experienced many attritions, client losses, and a rough integration. Perhaps diagnosis of the softer aspects was missed that Athena now captures in its Due Diligence service
The Athena Advantage

Why leaders choose Athena for consulting

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Tailored, Not Templated

Every engagement is built around your organisation’s context, sector and stage — never a one-size-fits-all playbook.

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Client-Centric Approach

Your leadership goals sit at the heart of the work, with senior partners engaged from first brief to final outcome.

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Precision & Confidentiality

Rigorous, research-led method delivered with the discretion that senior mandates demand.

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Proven Across Sectors

250+ consulting assignments delivered across BFSI, manufacturing, technology and consumer.

Proof of work

Related case studies

Consulting and advisory mandates, from talent mapping and diligence to market entry.

Talent Mapping01

Growing a SaaS company from startup to ecosystem leader

A Singapore-headquartered cloud telephony and AI business needed to stand up its entire India leadership team, around eight senior stakeholders.

  • Reach50+ firms, 100+ executives mapped
  • Method3-tier industry mapping
  • OutcomeFull India leadership team built
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Talent Mapping02

Scaling a global tech giant’s operations in India

One of the world’s largest content platforms planned to hire roughly 800 people in India in a single year, with future investment riding on the outcome.

  • ScopeMonetisation team build-out
  • MethodAESC-certified search process
  • OutcomeHiring targets achieved
Read the case study
Persona Due Diligence03

Commercial and forensic due diligence for a French global leader

An $8bn France-based engineering and innovation leader identified a Bengaluru acquisition target and needed diligence across seven identified personas.

  • Client$8bn global engineering leader
  • MethodSecondary research plus stakeholder interviews
  • OutcomeFull evaluation delivered on time
Read the case study
Market Intelligence04

Market entry strategy for a US-headquartered LPO in LATAM

A $700m knowledge process outsourcing leader evaluated Brazil, Mexico and Colombia for organic growth in Latin America.

  • MarketsBrazil, Mexico, Colombia
  • MethodMarket intelligence study, 3-4 weeks
  • OutcomeLocation recommendation delivered
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