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About The Athena Network
How We Got Here
The
CEO and Founder of The Athena Network, Jacqueline Rogers,
recognised that there was a requirement for women in business that is
not currently being fulfilled. The opportunity to attend a fun,
yet focussed, networking lunch, to be trained in networking and business
skills and to be coached, mentored and trained in their business and
personal development.
Athena
Aims
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Providing opportunities to make strategic connections with
professionals in a wide range of industry sectors.
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Developing members' business skills through a choice of interactive
workshops and training courses.
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Encourage women in business to inspire and support others for
greater success.
We aim to put
like-minded women together who are passionate about growing and
developing their business. Many of our members also benefit on
a personal level from the support and inspiration they get from
other members as well as from the organisation.
Training and
development of our members as well as their business is very
important to Athena. To
this end we provide numerous trainings and workshops. Some are
designed to help ladies who are new to networking, whilst we also
cater to the needs of the experienced networker! Every new
member to Athena is
automatically invited to attend a FREE New Member Training session
designed to help each newcomer to get the most from their
Athena membership.
Whether you are
new to business or have been established for a number of years, you
will undoubtedly realise how beneficial it is to build relationships
with other businesses. Athena
members enjoy the networking lunches and other events, which gives
them the opportunity to build these valuable contacts.
Increasing your database of contacts will mean you can instantly put
your hands on the right contact to help support you in business,
whether this is a supplier or a company you can work with jointly on
a project with a client of yours.
At the end of the
day, one of the main reasons ladies join Athena is to gain new business! Although we are not
a referral organisation and don't apply this pressure to our
members, business is constantly passing throughout the membership.
So if you're looking for new business plus you want to benefit from
the other aims of the organisation, them membership in Athena can
certainly help you to achieve your goals.
Where We Are Going
Developing strategic relationships with experts in the market.
Listening to our members requirements to deliver new and exciting
initiatives to ensure that the members come to regard
Athena as the premier networking and training organisation for women.
Jacqueline
Rogers
 CEO and a Founder of The Athena Network,
Jacqueline Rogers gained extensive corporate experience
in a broad range of challenging sales, training and
consultancy roles with organisations such as KPMG, BAe,
Ernst & Young and BT.
A nomadic upbringing pathed a passage of destiny for a
woman who by her own admission is the “karma chameleon”
of business. Able to rapidly turn her attention and
inspirational skills to a myriad of people, professions
and situations, Jacqueline Rogers is the mistress of
effortless positive change.
With her roots in Lancashire, and as a daughter of an
RAF serviceman, it became second nature for her to
embrace new cultures, explore exotic lands and fall in
step with new ways of living, as she travelled the world
in her formative years.
Little wonder then that the power of life change and
making the most of the moment became a professional way
of life for Jacqueline in adulthood. Naturally drawn,
like Picasso to paint, to new people, and tuning in to
what makes them tick, she set her life compass on a path
that lead to study with new thinkers and lifestyle
gurus.
No New Age flake, Jacqueline has sound business
credentials. For the best part of her working life she
held many varied and successful consultancy, training
and sales positions in corporate businesses - working
with organisations such as KPMG, BAe, Ernst & Young and
BT. This all adds to her credibility.
With a proven track record in sales and marketing she
has won president club awards to St Lucia, Grand Cayman
and had sole responsibility for setting up the Le
Creuset concessions in Germany.
Her own life crossroads came when Jacqueline made a
choice to leave the corporate world, start her own
business and work directly with business owners as a
coach, mentor and trainer. She comments, “I didn’t know
the colour of my own front door; I would leave for work
so early and get home so late. Work/life balance? How
could I coach what I couldn’t model?”
As founder member of Phoenix Potential, Jacqueline has
dedicated her post-corporate professional life to
Coaching, Training and Mentoring business owners and
entrepreneurs. “It is my passion to help business
people achieve their personal and professional potential
without struggling and in a way that feels easy yet
compelling for the individual,” she explains.
Wanting to ensure the best results for her clients
Jacqueline extended her portfolio of skills and went on
to become a qualified Master Practitioner of NLP, Master
Practitioner of Time Line Therapy™, Practitioner of
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Practitioner of
EmoTrance and a Master Hypnotist and qualified Life
Coach. She adds, “I’ve been fortunate to know, and have
been trained by, some of the most inspiring people -
esteemed new thinkers in development and leadership who
have taught me much about people, processes, and the
desire to make things happen.”
As a ‘serial womanpreneur’, running several web
businesses, Jacqueline has her own bevy of international
coaches and mentors to ensure she stays at the cutting
edge. Yet in her time she has been a divorced single
parent to two sons Patrick and Ciaran and living in variety of European countries, she knows all too well the pressures
modern businesswomen have juggling home and work life
too.
The Athena Network, which she co-founded in February 2006, marries together all of
Jacqueline’s values of networking, inspiring and
supporting women to reach their full professional and
personal best.
“”You know when you’ve reached your potential when you
feel life feels effortless, purposeful and full of
possibility. I feel like that about the Athena Network
and it is my intention to help many hundreds more
unleash their power and still have time to buy shoes!”.
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