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

Where The Creative Industry Comes To Have The Conversations We Usually Avoid!

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Athene Parker is the founder and host of The emPOWER Breakfast, an independent, founder-led event series and podcast designed to create space for honest, human conversations across advertising, production and creative industries.... Through interviews with leaders, creatives and change-makers, The emPOWER Breakfast explores what happens when people are empowered to show up as more than just their job titles. Bringing lived experience and identity to the bandwidth available for the roles we work in. Ultimately bringing  better environments in the workplace.

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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 demonstrating that when we create space for honesty, we  build stronger teams, more effective leaders and more meaningful work.

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The emPOWER Breakfast is an independent platform and is not affiliated with any similarly named organisations.

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Athene is also founder of theSENmumma, a mentoring network supporting 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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