WEL’s Strategic Alliances

Athena Alliance

WEL established the Florida Diamond level to provide membership in both Athena Alliance and WEL. In addition to the WEL membership, Florida Diamond members are provided access to all of Athena Alliance’s services and assigned to an Athena engagement advisor who assists with career and board planning and ongoing membership support.

Athena is an executive education platform and community that helps senior women leaders and their companies build influence and reach their career goals. It uses an “Executive-Education-as-a-Service” model to integrate content, community, and coaching into a personalized experience. The company’s services are designed to help women move into the C-suite and secure corporate board positions. They provide leadership and board tracks, certifications, portfolio assistance, coaching, global community access, and share search opportunities.

How Athena Alliance serves individuals

Networking: Members gain access to a global community of senior women leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs for peer-to-peer learning and networking. Connections are facilitated by dedicated “Member Success” managers.
Coaching: The platform offers one-on-one strategic coaching from a network of executive experts. The personalized coaching focuses on specific goals like gaining board roles, advancing to the C-suite, or transitioning careers.
Learning content: A “Netflix-for-business” style content library provides on-demand access to video sessions, guided “pathways,” and in-person events.
Career opportunities: Athena helps members refine their board bios and connects them with exclusive opportunities for C-suite roles, board seats, and advisory positions.

Leaderboard

WEL is one of Leaderboards’ 9 member organizations. A national network focused on advancing female senior leaders into board positions by connecting companies with diverse talent pools. WEL members can access:

Talent identification: Leaderboard Women uses its network to suggest candidates for open board roles.
Candidate connections: It coordinates with CEOs, boards, and recruiters to match skills and experience to board needs and facilitates “warm” introductions.
Networking and collaboration: Brings together women’s leadership groups nationally for education, advocacy, and cooperation.
Research and advocacy: Shares research and best practices to promote the advancement of women on boards and tracks progress within member organizations. Tracks the progress of women in corporate boardrooms and shares the findings from its member organizations.

UNC Director Development Initiative – WEL members are invited to all of the UNC Board programs and events, and access to their resources.

Florida Women on Corporate Boards (FWOB)

WEL in collaboration with 50/50 Women on Boards, the Florida Chapters of Women Corporate Directors, the International Women’s Forums of Florida, and the University of Tampa publish the Florida Census of Women Public Company Directors. 2024 is the third annual report based on the Russell 3000 companies and provides rankings among 25 states with more than 20 public companies as of June 30, 2024. The analysis is based on the Russell 3000 (R3000) and provides rankings among the 25 states with more than 20 public companies as of June 30, 2024.