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.
70% of engagement
The direct manager alone accounts for the majority of the variance in a team’s engagement.
25% more likely
Companies with top-quartile gender-diverse executive teams are more likely to beat peers on profitability.
36% more likely
The outperformance is even stronger for ethnically and culturally diverse leadership teams.
~$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.
Up to 2x salary
Replacing a senior leader can cost up to twice their annual salary, before the hit to momentum and morale.
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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