26th Annual ATHENA Award Recipient
Judith Baumhauer, M.D., M.P.H.

The ATHENA Award®

The ATHENA Award, an international program with over 5000 recipients worldwide, was founded in 1982 to honor the achievements of exceptional women leaders, and, by doing so, inspire others to achieve excellence in their professional and business lives.

Introduced to Rochester in 1987 by the Women's Council, an affiliate of the Rochester Business Alliance, the ATHENA award recognizes women who:

• Demonstrate excellence, creativity and initiative in their business or profession,
• Provide valuable service by contributing time and energy to improve the quality of life for others in the community, and
• Actively assist women in realizing their full leadership potential.

The ATHENA Leadership Model is a philosophy of leadership based on women's unique ways of knowing and leading. Developed by the ATHENA Foundation in collaboration through a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the model identifies eight distinct attributes or tenets that are reflective of women's contributions to leadership:

• Authentic Self
• Relationships
• Giving Back
• Collaboration
• Courageous Acts
• Learning
• Fierce Advocacy
• Celebration and Joy

These personal traits that are more intuitive to women, combined with the strongest aspects of traditional leadership--taking risks, assertiveness, hard work--prepare women to be successful leaders in the 21st Century.