2027 Course Catalogue. Athena Academy courses help you build your Portfolio of Impact™ across governance, AI fluency, and career design. Each course runs four weeks, one live session per week, offered twice a year.
Each course runs for four weeks, with one live session per week, plus an optional 30-minute office hours after each session. All courses are offered twice a year.
A foundational deep-dive into how boards actually operate: fiduciary duty, committee structure across audit, compensation, and nom/gov, board dynamics, and the unwritten rules of the room. Built around the core fundamentals, with guest speakers who have sat in the seats. For leaders preparing for a first board role or sharpening existing governance fluency.
Lead Faculty: Erin Essenmacher
Each session includes an optional 30-minute office hours / group coaching block right after, same day and same link.
A guided framework for designing a portfolio career: blending board seats, advisory work, consulting, investing, and passion projects into a coherent next chapter. For leaders ready to move beyond a single full-time role and compose something broader, with more optionality and more agency.
Lead Faculty: Coco Brown
Each session includes an optional 30-minute office hours / group coaching block right after, same day and same link.
Sharpen your board narrative and learn to identify the seats where your experience is the strongest match. Covers personal brand, board bios, and how nominating committees actually evaluate candidates, with practical positioning work. For leaders ready to move from board-ready to board-sought.
Lead Faculty: Erin Essenmacher
Each session includes an optional 30-minute office hours / group coaching block right after, same day and same link.
Build fluency in how venture-backed companies are built, funded, and governed: cap tables, term sheets, and board dynamics in a startup context. Essential for executives engaging with venture-stage companies, whether you are advising, investing, or joining a private-company board.
Lead Faculty: Lilia Shirman
Each session includes an optional 30-minute office hours / group coaching block right after, same day and same link.
A strategic look at leading AI adoption at the organizational and board level: governance questions, risk, and how to ask the right questions as a leader, not a technologist. For executives who need to guide AI decisions with confidence, without writing a line of code.
Lead Faculty: Jocelyn King
Each session includes an optional 30-minute office hours / group coaching block right after, same day and same link.
A hands-on, brand-new course where you build a working AI agent from scratch. No engineering background required. Think of it as building your own AI chief of staff: a working assistant that handles real tasks for you. Walk away with practical AI fluency and a live project you can point to.
Lead Faculty: Announcing soon
Each session includes an optional 30-minute office hours / group coaching block right after, same day and same link.