ATHENA Leadership Exchange Programme, provides an arena, platform and network, to link emerging and existing leaders, learning from those who have ‘been there, done it, want to champion and share it’. In April we made history by becoming the first region in the UK to BE BOLD and join with ATHENA International, who have a world-wide network of 8,000 built over 35 years. ATHENA International is built on research from W.K. Kellogg Foundation focusing on the personal traits of strong, successful women. We all have untapped potential, we want to help you discover it, grow from it, make a difference to whatever it is you want to achieve. It is not always the lack of opportunity that stops us from achieving; it is sometimes a lack of self-belief, know-how, support and structures.