Build enterprise value for your next strategic move.
Athena works with established women owned and partnership led companies to strengthen performance, evaluate acquisitions and prepare for changes in ownership.
We connect the financial, operating and leadership decisions behind a more valuable business, then work with your team to put them into practice.
The decisions that bring clients to Athena
Expansion may add revenue while increasing cash requirements. An acquisition may create opportunity while stretching leadership capacity. A partner's departure may change both the ownership plan and the operating model.
These decisions cannot be evaluated one department at a time. We help owners and leadership teams examine the economics, responsibilities and risks together, so the strategy reflects what the company can support and what needs to change.
Strengthen the company. Evaluate the opportunity. Prepare the transition.
Build Enterprise Value
Improve the earnings, revenue quality, leadership and operating capabilities that support business value. Establish priorities that connect financial performance with execution across the company.
Acquisition Advisory
Evaluate an acquisition against your strategy, capital requirements and ability to operate the combined business. Test assumptions before a promising opportunity becomes a commitment.
Exit & Transition Readiness
Prepare the business for succession, sale, a partner change or a new leadership structure. Connect the owners' objectives with the financial and operating work the transition requires.
For established companies with consequential decisions ahead.
We focus on privately held businesses with operating history, a team and a meaningful next stage to plan for. We work with owners, business partners and leadership teams who are prepared to examine the numbers, address difficult decisions and commit resources to implementation.
Women owned businesses remain central to our work. We also support companies led by multiple owners, where growth, reinvestment and transition require a shared direction rather than an assumption that everyone wants the same outcome.
The financial case and the operating plan belong together.
Our work includes financial forecasts, pricing and compensation analysis, sales accountability, leadership role design and operating scorecards. These are not separate projects on a consulting menu. They are ways to address the issues that limit performance, concentrate risk or make a business difficult to transfer.
We work alongside the people responsible for delivering the result. Priorities become defined responsibilities, management routines and measures the company can use after the conversation ends.
A complementary resource for your advisory team.
We collaborate with CPAs, attorneys, lenders, wealth advisors and transaction professionals when the next step requires work inside the business. Our role is to connect preparation and implementation with the specialist advice an owner already receives.
Bring us the decision that matters next.
Tell us what the company is preparing for, what is at stake and where you need an outside perspective. We will discuss the appropriate role for Athena and the work that would move the decision forward.
“Working with Athena has been an amazing experience that has transformed both my personal growth and my business. I started working with them during the pandemic; a time of uncertainty and challenges, and their guidance has been invaluable in helping me navigate not only the economic recovery but also the complexities of scaling my business.”
— Carolyn Seeger, Client