Our Team

The Athena Group is becoming an anti-racist, self-organizing, for-purpose consulting enterprise. Together we cultivate the capacity for transformational change in self, systems, and society.

Sanne Bergh

Sanne Bergh, MFA, has over ten years of experience in writing, editing and publishing. She brings a lifelong commitment to effective communication through the written word and arranging words to evoke truth and authenticity.

Steve Byers

Steve is an interdependent consultant who works with leaders, organizations, and communities seeking to renew their essential conversation about change and leadership.

Anthony Campbell, Ph.D.

Dr. Anthony Campbell (he/him) has over 15 years of experience researching and working with local governments. An organizer and planner at his core, Anthony has a particular focus on stakeholder engagement, process analysis, and community relationship building.

Rhiannon Colaci

Rhiannon is a highly skilled professional with a diverse background encompassing administrative work, coordination, and a strong focus on promoting financial equity for marginalized groups.

Liz DuBois

Engaging, practical, and outcome driven, Liz DuBois thrives in the dynamic and ever shifting environments found in modern organizations. She serves leaders by providing a clear and objective vision of their organization and by defining the measurable appearance of success

Stacy Hirsch

Stacy brings with her 25+ years of experience working in a range of environments within the private, public, and non-profits sectors. She is a consultant, certified coach, and facilitator.

Paul Horton

Paul is a leadership and strategy coach and organizational change professional with 25 years of experience working with the public, private, non-profit, and higher education sectors.

Kate King

Kate King (PMP) (she/her) supports all Athena project teams by managing contracting and invoicing, as well as the internal proposal development process, to ensure that we are submitting high-quality and timely invoices and proposals.

Irene Konev

Irene Konev (she/her/hers) has over 20 years of experience in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, including community organizing, outreach, public relations, facilitation and working with nonprofits and local governments.

Tevin Medley

Tevin Medley provides Program evaluation and monitoring as well as Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training, facilitation and consulting that meets a variety of needs for organizations of all sizes.

Karen Meyer

Karen Meyer brings over 25 years' experience in helping communities understand and advocate for important issues through assessment, planning, engagement, project management and performance improvement.

Faith Trimble

Faith excels in facilitation, strategy, participatory engagement, and project management with organizations and communities.

Crystal Wade

Crystal (she/her) is an organizational development consultant that utilizes a relationship-first approach in working with individuals and teams across organizations. Crystal believes that problems can be gifts that provide opportunities for us to learn, grow and improve together.

George Zeno

George is a social ecology practitioner who combines his lived experience with formal knowledge of academia, business intelligence, and the wisdom of community to co-create collective action for a more equitable, just, and sustainable future.

The Athena Group Collaborators

We regularly collaborate with a powerful team of coaches, trainers, planners, facilitators, and specialists in our project work.

Our Business Associates

August Creative

AvantPage

Dispute Resolution Center

Equity Institute

The Athena Group, LLC is an equal opportunity organization.

The Athena Group does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or characteristics, protected veteran status, or other protected classifications in accordance with federal law.