The Quad Cities ATHENA Leadership Awards not only celebrate, recognize and reward women’s leadership skills, career achievements, community service and leadership, but also promote what leadership looks like . ATHENA winners say this is powerful because it allows young and inexperienced women in the workplace to identify local role models they can talk to, observe and learn from in action .

2022 ATHENA Winner Executive Director of NACOG’s Yavapai County Workforce Development Division said in a 2022 QCBN interview, “Leaders become mentors to others and influence future growth.” “My parents and siblings are and always will be my mentors. They taught me what to do and what not to do. has worked.”

On Sunday, September 24th, women from across the region will gather at the Starting Point in Prescott Gateway Mall for the 4th Annual Quad Cities ATHENA Leadership Awards High Tea. Quad City business news. They will hear stories of struggle and triumph, perseverance over fear, and how to find inner strength in the face of adversity. You will also learn how women lean toward their core values ​​and aspirations for the future.

“I believe my life is a blessing and a blessing given to me. Giving back is what I believe I must do. It’s one of my beliefs, and winning the ATHENA award makes it even stronger,” said Teresa Teresa, 2018 Flagstaff ATHENA winner and Associate Professor of Practice Management at Northern Arizona University WA Franke College of Business. Bierer said. “In our lives, everyone is very busy, but what really shapes the fabric of a community is the people who go out of themselves and put others and the community first. That’s what the ATHENA Awards represent.”

This year, QCBN will honor the individual winners of the traditional ATHENA Leadership Award, as well as presenting the ATHENA Young Professional Leadership Award. Additionally, for the first time in Northern Arizona, the Quad Cities ATHENA Leadership Awards recognize companies and organizations that support, develop, and recognize women leaders with the ATHENA Organizational Leadership Awards.

Individuals, businesses and organizations are encouraged to nominate outstanding women leaders who are making a difference in their communities and paving the way for others to influence the future.

“My hope for young women entering the workplace is that they do what they love and love what they do,” Drew added.

Nominations are being accepted until Friday, August 4th. prescottatena.com. FBNMore

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Photo by Kay Lyons: Women from FBN and QCBN have helped bring the ATHENA Leadership Awards to Prescott. Pictured here are the paper’s co-owner Amy Bicks, editor Bonnie Stevens and advertising manager Anne Herrington.