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Mentoring Through Quad Cities ATHENA Leadership Awards

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Nominations being accepted for September High Tea.

The Quad Cities ATHENA Leadership Awards not only celebrate, recognize and honor women for their leadership skills, career achievements, community service and mentorship, they also promote what leadership looks like. ATHENA recipients say this is powerful because younger or less experienced women in the workplace can identify local role models they can talk to, observe in action and learn from.

“Leaders become mentors for others and impact future growth,” said 2022 ATHENA recipient Teri Drew, executive director of NACOG’s Yavapai County Workforce Development, in a 2022 QCBN interview. “My parents and siblings were and continue to be my mentors. They taught me what to and not to do growing up, and those strong ethics pay off.”

On Sunday, Sept. 24, women from across the region will come together at Starting Point in the Prescott Gateway Mall for the 4th Annual Quad Cities ATHENA Leadership Awards High Tea, presented by Quad Cities Business News. They will hear stories of struggle and triumph, perseverance through fear and how to tap into their inner strength in times of adversity. They will also learn how women lean into their core values and their hopes for the future.

“I believe my life is a blessing and given as a blessing. Giving back is just what I believe I need to do. Mentoring others is one of my tenets and receiving the ATHENA award strengthened that,” said 2018 Flagstaff ATHENA recipient Theresa Bierer, an associate professor of practice in management in the W.A. Franke College of Business at Northern Arizona University. “In our lives, everyone is so busy, but what really makes the fabric of a community is people who step outside of themselves and put others and community first. To me, that’s what the ATHENA Award embodies.”

This year, QCBN will recognize an individual with the traditional ATHENA Leadership Award and also will present the ATHENA Young Professional Leadership Award. In addition, for the first time in Northern Arizona, the Quad Cities ATHENA Leadership Awards will celebrate a business or organization that supports, develops and honors women leaders with the ATHENA Organizational Leadership Award.

Individuals, businesses and organizations are encouraged to nominate extraordinary women leaders who are making a difference in their communities and pioneering a path for others to impact the future.

“My hope for young women entering the workplace is for them to do what they love and love what they do,” added Drew.

Nominations are being accepted until Friday, Aug. 4, at prescottathena.com. QCBN

By Bonnie Stevens, QCBN

Photos by Kay Lyons: QCBN women have been instrumental in bringing the ATHENA Leadership Awards to Prescott. Photographed here are QCBN Co-Owner Amy Bix, Editor Bonnie Stevens and Advertising Manager Ann Herrington. 

Best of Business: Honoring Excellence

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Northern AZ Social, LLC, has been named a QCBN Best of Business award winner for six consecutive years.

In keeping with a significant and meaningful Quad Cities Business News tradition, businesses and business owners in the region are being recognized for excellence in the ninth annual QCBN Best of Business awards. Voting is open now through Dec. 15.

“This is an opportunity for all of us to acknowledge the accomplishments of businesses serving the region and qualities they exhibit like integrity, customer service, effectiveness, efficiency, flexibility, responsibility and kindness that we all value when hiring companies and working together,” said QCBN Co-owner and Publisher Amy Bix.

Acknowledging that we all do business with a variety of hard-working, successful and highly regarded companies and individuals in Prescott, Prescott Valley, Dewey/Humboldt and Chino Valley, Bix reminds residents and visitors that this is an opportunity to express gratitude for those who have treated their clients well, provided an important service and operated with the utmost professionalism.

Northern AZ Social, LLC, has been named a QCBN Best of Business award winner for six consecutive years. “We are grateful to assist growing businesses and to help them accomplish their goals through digital, social and traditional media,” said Northern AZ Social owner Donna Werking. “We have not only gained credibility with our clients through this wonderful recognition, but our partnership with QCBN has built stronger connections in our community.”

Best of Business categories include construction trades, home building suppliers, auto dealers, retail businesses, gun shops, hospitality, marketing, housekeeping, and real estate agents, among others.

Bix says Best of Business is the only awards platform of its kind in the region. Winners will be announced in the January 2023 QCBN issue. Voting is quick and convenient. Go to quadcitiesbusinessnews.com/bestofbusiness. QCBN

By Bonnie Stevens, QCBN