Stephanie Allen is a principal of The Athena Group, LLC and LeaderWise consulting firms specializing in organizational culture change, multidimensional leadership and workforce excellence.  Her specialty is helping leaders grow more leaders.  She has 40 years experience in leadership, leadership development and program development as an executive coach workshop facilitator and speaker.  Her work has taken her into corporations, professional firms and associations throughout the US; including Accenture, John Hancock, Hewlett Packard, AICPA and Telstra, Australia’s second largest corporation. 

Allen served as CEO of Management Support Technology, a software development company that she took public, and as senior vice-president of Performance Training Corporation, where she trained corporate executives in communication skills.  She is the founder and chair emeritus (having served for nine years as the chair) of the Women’s Vision Foundation, a 3,500 member organization that is dedicated to the advancement of women corporate leaders and provides leadership development programs, events and networking resources. 

Allen has held board positions in over 20 organizations.  She recently retired from the board of HealthONE, a major hospital system, where she served as chair and founder of the Ethics Committee. She joined the board of the Colorado CPA Society, and is a member of the YESS Institute’s Wisdom Council. She has raised over $50 million for educational organizations and founded Explo: The Career Education Fair, which served over 150,000 school children in Metropolitan Denver, and Spree: The Colorado Celebration of the Arts.

She received the US Small Business Administration’s Regional Women in Business Advocate of the Year award in 1996, the University of Denver Dan Ritchie Colorado Ethics in Business award in 1999, and the Colorado Women’s Leadership Coalition’s Colorado Women’s Leadership Award in 2004. She is a 2006 inductee in the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame. With her sister, Carolyn, she is co-author of Doing It All Isn’t Everything: A Woman’s Guide to Harmony and Empowerment.