Helping you expand your perspective at home and around the world.
What Our Team Can Do For You
Athena and its global network bring you the world.
With over three decades of experience, we meet both your professional and personal challenges. From helping you and your family manage an international relocation to creating high-functioning teams, we help you develop the skills and insights needed to stay curious, competitive and to exceed your goals.
What Our Clients Say
Relocating can be challenging. You have to adapt and learn a lot in a short period of time. This (cross-cultural expat coaching) program allowed us to feel very comfortable in our new environment in a few weeks. It provided the necessary elements to understand the culture and communities around us. I can’t thank you enough for making our relocation easy and successful.
Director Hospitality Industry
Brings innovative approach to development of leadership skills and brings a competitive advantage to organizations.
The skills I acquired through the mindfulness program helped me bring mindfulness into my existing daily activities. I find myself more thoughtful in my approach to work; more careful and selective in my dialogue with both loved ones and colleagues; I more often than not, catch myself before I overreact (run) and take notice if I am inclined to under react (hide); I notice and enjoy the smallest pleasures and acknowledge and more fluidly process the challenges of the day, all which has made the line between working and living dissipate.
President and CEO Real Estate Industry
The 8 months of coaching on my relocation from Shanghai to Pittsburgh has proven to be a pivotal and rewarding experience. The structured methodology to explore my personal values and open environment to exchange perspectives has led to discovery and greater self-awareness that I will value throughout my life.”
Best leadership development program I have ever participated in.
Senior Developer Pharmaceutical IndustryThank you so much for your help! I learned so much more than I expected that’s important for my life. I think your job is more of a mission. You gave me much more than the (expat) training…your life experience.
Senior Process Improvement Engineer Industrial Products Manufacturing IndustryIt really helped open my eyes about all of the different leadership styles. IGLD is outside the box!
Director Life Sciences IndustryLatest News
Cultural Programming: When to Speak, When to Listen
By: Pamela Pappas Stanoch I recently conducted a session with a group of Chinese educators working in the USA for the next year. They are all working in Chinese Immersion Programs in the State of Minnesota. Our discussion started with the communication process, comparing the direct communicators in the USA to the more indirect communicators […]
Intercultural Communications: A Journey
by Pam Pappas Stanoch After 40 years in this industry I am amazed at the journey we have been on throughout the years. When I started in this industry our marketing focus was to seek out companies with a global presence. Our mission and our curriculum reflected the needs of those companies and their employees […]
Mindful Leadership
Wise leaders take the time to pause, reflect, and really see what is needed in the moment. They have honed the skill of getting out of their own (and their teams’) way. “Mindfulness is the place in the middle, which is not sucked in and overcome by something; nor is it pushing it away or […]
Mindfulness Course Participant Education IndustryThis class changed my life. You have really opened a world that was so unfamiliar to me. For that, I am forever grateful.