Athena Awards

The Athena Award Program recognizes and honors the achievements of outstanding professional and business women. It celebrates individuals who strive toward the highest level of accomplishment; women who excel in their chosen filed but who also open paths so that others may follow.

The ATHENA sculpture was created to capture and embody, in abstract bronze and crystal, all the strength, wisdom and power of the mythical goddess.

The Athena Award Program is an international program. Since its beginning in Michigan in 1982, more than 7,000 awards have been presented in over 500 communities in 8 countries. The Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce is pleased to bring this important recognition program to women in Palo Alto.

In additional to the regular Athena award, an additional award, the Athena Young Professional Leadership Award is granted to a woman who demonstrates excellence, creativity and initiative in her business or profession.

The annual Athena Award Luncheon will be Thursday, October 15, 2015 at the Garden Court Hotel in Palo Alto.