Executive Assistant
Today’s Executive/Personal Assistant (EA/PA) is a new breed of worker. They’re the ones who are always on top of things, well informed, and organized.
Read moreToday’s Executive/Personal Assistant (EA/PA) is a new breed of worker. They’re the ones who are always on top of things, well informed, and organized. They’re dependable, trustworthy, and honest. With their unique overview of the company, administrative staff are regularly called upon to make business critical decisions – it’s no exaggeration to say that an executive is only as good as their assistant. Organisation and flexibility are important skills for EAs along with the abilities to multi-task, meet deadlines, and work as a part of a team. They are highly accountable and often responsible for safeguarding confidential information.
Global Executive Assistants Summit provides an opportunity for EAs to receive up-to-date knowledge and tools to help them succeed in a demanding environment. The Summit will provide targeted training and valuable networking for qualified EAs. This Summit will also allow PAs to explore the managerial aspects of the PA role using practical exercises and cases studies while enhancing their PA skills with the latest PA best practice. It is an excellent event for senior PAs who are conscious of their continuous professional development and would like to optimise their personal brand.
Executive support professionals, including:
Lucy Brazier is CEO of Marcham Publishing, specialist publishers of Executive Support – a global training magazine dedicated to the professional development needs of senior and aspiring administrative professionals.
Lucy is one of the world’s leading authorities on the administrative profession.
Her passion is for the assistant role to be truly recognised as a career and not just a job. Her formidable training expertise and speaking style have given her opportunities to train, present and chair in over 45 countries at over 400 events, including chairing the 2015 World Administrator Summit in Papua New Guinea. This has created much needed discussions from encouraging executive assistants in Blue Chip companies to work towards becoming centres of excellence within their companies to explaining why college students should see the assistant role as proper profession with a career path.
Lucy has a unique overview of the role and where it is heading. With access to the most forward thinking, passionate and knowledgeable authorities on the role in the world as well as personally meeting and speaking to literally thousands of assistants over the last seven years, Lucy’s knowledge of the market and what assistants all over the world are facing on a day-to-day basis are second to none.
Lucy’s unique insight into the world of the executive assistants brings a distinct qual-ity and depth to her specialist development programmes. She continuously researches, develops and delivers to bring the most current, innovative and challenging development programmes to support assistants in rapidly changing business environments to meet the increasing skill sets required of senior assistants.
Lucy has been a publisher and events organiser for over 29 years. Lucy previously worked as a publishing director for Wilmington PLC, and has managed a team based in Singapore, New York, Germany and London responsible for 13 magazines, 12 international confer-ences, awards, trade show attendance and marketing for EMAP. Other companies worked for include: The Times, The Independent, Centaur Communications and Glass’s Guide.