Free for Institute Members
Athena is your organization's 24/7 AI performance coach, armed with 35 purpose-built tools and powered by more than 3,000 expert microcoaching lessons from bestselling authors like Marshall Goldsmith, Beverly Kaye, and Michael Bungay Stanier. Where GPT and Copilot give answers, Athena coaches your people to insight. She will role-play a difficult conversation, pressure-test a decision, or work through a stalled team dynamic in the moments that matter. Named an AI company to watch two years in a row.
A Performance Coach for Every Employee in the Flow of Work
Every manager deserves access to great performance coaching. The challenge is that human coaches, as effective as they are, don't scale. They are not always available when you need them, and giving every employee their own human coach would be prohibitively expensive for most organizations. That's where Athena comes in.
Athena is an AI performance coach available 24/7, right in the flow of work. She draws on the wisdom of the Institute's world-class faculty; bestselling authors, respected researchers, and seasoned practitioners to give your employees practical, credible guidance exactly when they need it. Armed with 35 purpose-built tools, Athena will role-play hard conversations, pressure-test decisions, and help employees build the habits that drive lasting results.
30 Days of Free Access
After Every IMS Program
After Every IMS Program
Every time one of your employees attends an IMS program, they receive 30 days of complimentary access to Athena and the full QuickCoach library, with more than 3,000 expert microcoaching lessons. It's the ideal way to reinforce what they learned and build new skills in the flow of work, at no additional cost.
Not a Chatbot. A Performance Coach with a Toolkit.
Every Athena coaching session is powered by a purpose-built framework. Where chatbots improvise, Athena walks your employees through a structured process that produces a real, usable output. Here are just a few of Athena's 35 tools:
Feedback and Communication
Difficult Conversation Planner
Prepares opening, anticipated reactions, responses, and boundaries. Pairs with role play so managers can practice before the real conversation.
Goal-Setting and Action Planning
90-Day Action Plan
Breaks a goal into three monthly milestones with obstacles and accountability built in, so intentions become results.
Strategic Analysis
SWOT Analysis
Evaluates a decision from four angles: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, giving leaders a complete picture before they commit.
Self-Awareness and Reflection
Energy Audit
Maps weekly activities as energizing or draining and rebuilds the week around what gives the manager their best capacity.
Team Development
Team Health Check
Scores trust, communication, clarity, accountability, and results, then surfaces the one or two things that will move the needle most.
Decision-Making
Pro-Con-Mitigator
Goes beyond the standard pros and cons list with a third column: how to reduce or eliminate each con before committing to a decision.
35 tools total across 8 categories • Strategic Analysis • Decision-Making • Prioritization and Time • Feedback and Communication • Delegation and Accountability • Goal-Setting and Action Planning • Self-Awareness and Reflection • Team Development
Learn How Athena Helps Your Employees and Your Career
See how Athena extends the value of your IMS investment, giving your managers a trusted performance coach available around the clock, at no additional cost.
What Makes Athena Different?
Athena isn't another chatbot. She's a performance coach: built from proven content, guided by real expertise, and designed to support HR and L&D leaders as they bring AI into the workplace. Where GPT and Copilot give answers, Athena delivers coaching that's credible, actionable, and aligned with your organizational goals.
- Tool-Driven: 35 purpose-built tools, from the Difficult Conversation Planner to the Pro-Con-Mitigator, that produce structured outputs instead of open-ended chat
- Role-Play Capable: Athena will rehearse a hard conversation with your manager and debrief what worked and what didn't, something general AI cannot do
- Expert-Sourced: Every insight Athena provides is pulled directly from IMS's trusted QuickCoach library
- Always Available: Athena offers 24/7 support, no scheduling, no delays
- Secure and Compliant: IMS AI runs on enterprise-grade infrastructure with GDPR compliance, secure services, PII deletion, and semantic safety routing
- Customizable to Your Culture: Athena can be aligned to your organization's values, competency models, internal terminology, and programs for relevance, resonance, and impact
- More than Coaching: Athena recommends relevant videos from the QuickCoach library to deepen learning and reinforce key skills
Expert on the Experts
Athena draws from thousands of lessons
by top authors, coaches, and consultants.
by top authors, coaches, and consultants.
35 Performance Coaching Tools
Purpose-built tools that help managers
work through real challenges, not just find content.
work through real challenges, not just find content.
Scales Across Your Organization
One expert coach for every manager,
available whenever they need it.
available whenever they need it.