Caroline Turner - Principal in The AthenA Group LLC

Caroline Turner is a principal of The Athena Group, a consulting firm that specializes in organizational culture and leadership.  She is a dynamic and engaging workshop facilitator, speaker and executive coach.  She has a passion for helping leaders create cultures of inclusion that leverage the diversity of today’s workforce.  She specializes in gender differences and generational differences and is working on a book about engaging masculine and feminine perspectives in the workplace.

Caroline is the former senior vice president, general counsel of Coors Brewing Company. In addition to leading the internal legal function, she headed the company’s Public Affairs Department, which included groups responsible for federal and state government affairs, alcohol issues and environmental policy, as well as the office of the corporate secretary.  Caroline was a partner in the law firm of Holme Roberts & Owen, Denver, Colorado, where she specialized in securities law and corporate transactions.  She served as clerk to Judge McWilliams of the 10th Judicial Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Caroline is an emeritus member of the board of directors of the Women’sVision Foundation and a board member of Warren Village, a transformational housing program for low-income single-parent families.  She is on the honorary board of the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame and the advisory board of The Mentoring Company.  She was formerly a member of the board of the Women’s Forum of Colorado and participated actively in the Women’s Initiative at Mile High United Way and in several capacities at the University of Denver College of Law. She represented Coors as a member of the Board of Greater Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the advisory boards of the National Hispana Leadership Institute and the National Council of La Raza. 

Caroline was recognized in 2000 by the Women’sVision Foundation as Corporate Woman of the Year, received the Outstanding Alumni award from the University of Denver College of Law in 1999, was named a Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts in 2000, was honored by Coors in 2002 with the John Meadows Spirit of Diversity Award and in 2005 received the Eleanor P. Williams award from the Arthritis Foundation of the Rocky Mountains.

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