"You can only meet someone as deeply as you have met yourself..."

Athene Parker is the founder and host of The emPOWER Breakfast, a live event series and podcast designed to create space for honest, human conversations in the workplace. Through interviews with leaders, creatives and change-makers, emPOWER explores what happens when people are allowed to show up as more than just their job titles.

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With over 25 years’ experience across the music, advertising and creative industries, Athene has worked at the intersection of creativity, leadership and community. Her career pivot came from a growing belief that traditional workplace cultures often fail to make room for lived experience particularly around vulnerability, parenting, neurodiversity, burnout and resilience.

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Athene’s work is deeply informed by her own life, including her experience as a parent to a non-speaking autistic child. This perspective shapes her commitment to empathy-led leadership, psychological safety and inclusive conversations that reflect real life, not polished narratives.

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Through The emPOWER Breakfast, Athene has built a trusted platform that brings people together to listen, connect and feel less alone proving that when we create space for honesty, we create stronger teams, better leaders and more meaningful work.

She also runs theSENmumma, a mentoring network for parents of neurodivergent children.

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For more information about The emPOWER Breakfast, or to discuss sponsorship opportunities, empathy-building packages, emPOWER workshops, one-to-one coaching, or speaking engagements please email:

 

athene@theempowerbreakfast.co.uk

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