Athena Valley of the Sun with Dr Kristine Quade and Honoree Dr Eileen Borris
Since the first award in 1982, ATHENA International™, a non profit organization, has honored approximately 7,000 individuals in 500 communities and 8 countries with ATHENA Leadership Awards. These individuals are committed to their profession, their community and to helping other women achieve their full leadership potential. They embody the attributes of the ATHENA Leadership Model ~ Being Authentic; Building Relationships; Collaborating with Others; Being Courageous; Advocating Fiercely; Constantly Learning; Giving Back and Celebrating.
ATHENA honors the highest level of professional excellence coupled with the values of giving back and the responsibility for opening leadership opportunities for others. Honoring successful women in business encourages others to both envision and strive for their highest potential. The long-term vision is to achieve a balance in the voices of leadership.
Joining many ATHENA chapters around the globe, the ATHENA Valley of the Sun (AVOS) was formed in 2015 with the focus of supporting women as we evolve from leadership at the community or grassroots level all the way to the governing Board of Directors.
AVOS offers the opportunity to experience extraordinary women as role models that exist in each of us. Our purpose is to provide opportunities for sharing stories of overcoming odds, challenging broken systems, taking brave actions, mending polarities or being the calming voice in the shouting of oppositions.
AVOS offerse a unique program for girls in grades 11 and 12 grade to provide them with leadership training. On March 8, 2018 (International Women’s Day), they are hosting the ATHENA HAIL Awards to honor Dr Eileen Borris, six local women business owners and also 10 young girls making an impact in the community.
Dr. Kristine Quade is an internationally recognized management consultant having worked with more than 200 clients in over 20 countries. She combines her experiences and education to help her clients learn how to thrive during times of rapid change. Dr Quade is recognized as a leading edge by her peers, teaches in Masters and Doctoral programs at seven Universities, is a frequent presenter at the international conferences and has published seven books and numerous articles on change.
Based on her over 40 years of work with change in individuals and organizations, Kristine has come to learn that what used to work, no longer does. She has researched and developed a different way of approaching chaotic, unpredictable change and her tools are easily applicable to leadership, team effectiveness, influencing the dynamics of change, global strategic thinking, creativity and innovation, and accomplishing what others say is impossible.
Dr Quade is currently focusing her efforts on training and placing women on Boards of Directors and utilizing the ATHENA Leadership Principles to strengthen women leaders around the globe. Her areas of expertise includes leadership, team effectiveness, influencing the dynamics of change, global strategic thinking, creativity and innovation, and developing capacity for change.
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As a clinical and political psychologist with over 25 years of experience, Honoree Dr. Eileen Borris works with emerging democracies, helping nations of people reconcile centuries-old conflicts through forgiveness. She designs regional and national dialogue processes that help emerging democracies heal from the wounds of the past and find the best plausible and peaceful future. Dr. Borris particularly focuses on working in war torn areas with governments and various organizations to develop conflict resolution and multi-track diplomacy training programs, in which she facilitates dialogues and meditation processes while developing schools of forgiveness and reconciliation between warring groups in conflict.
Dr. Borris is a former president and a board member of Forgiveness International whose mission is to advance individual and societal transformation through the practice of forgiveness in order to create sustainable peace. As part of this mission Dr. Borris travels to areas of conflict to give trainings in conflict resolution and to hold workshops known as “schools of forgiveness and reconciliation.” Dr. Borris also served as director of training and program development for the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy (IMTD), whose mission is to promote international peace building and transform deep-rooted social conflict. She has extensive consulting experience, having worked in Indonesia for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and with trauma healing programs throughout Liberia through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Her private consulting work has led her to design and implement conflict resolution programs and schools of forgiveness in war torn countries across the nation for governments as well as intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations.
Dr. Borris teaches in the MBA program at the Thunderbird: School of Global Management at ASU in Phoenix, AZ, where she instructs and leads courses in international negotiation, cross cultural communication, conflict management, and social change. She has served on the faculty of American University, the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany, and at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. In January 2007, Dr. Borris was invited to team teach the first conflict resolution course ever offered by the U.S. military at the National Defense University. She continues to instruct at the university as a visiting professor, where she teaches about conflict transformation.
Dr. Borris is a frequent speaker at the United Nations. She is one of the few individuals that has been invited to give an address in front of the United Nations General Assembly on how to resolve international conflicts and heal nations and gives presentations to the different missions and agencies regarding on the power of forgiveness and the healing of nations. She particularly speaks on the topic of forgiveness from the personal to the political.
Dr. Borris is a prolific writer, publishing many articles and books on the topic of forgiveness. His Holiness, the Dalai Lama wrote forewords for both her award-winning books, Forgiveness the Ultimate Freedom, and Finding Forgiveness: A 7-Step Program for Letting Go of Anger and Bitterness (McGraw Hill, 2006). Currently Dr. Borris is writing her third book Takes Two to Tango: Steps World Leaders Follow to Resolve Conflict. A native New Yorker, Dr. Borris received her doctorate and masters degree in psychology from Columbia University.
Website: http://DrBorris.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dreileenborris
Twitter: @erborris
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