Executive Office Insights

118: Unternehmensberaterin, Trainerin, Speaker, lizenzierter Business-Coach, Entwicklerin von Mind Codex®, der Lotus-Strategie®, TV-Expertin einiger TV-Formate und Autorin mehrfacher Fachbücher.

Als Expertin für Menschenkenntnis und Potenzialanalysen trainiert, coacht und begleitet Dr. Eva Brandt seit 1999 Führungskräfte und Manager in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Daneben berät sie Unternehmen in Fragen Potenzialentwicklung und strategischer Ausrichtung.

Links:

https://www.seminare-beratung.de/de/startseite

https://www.mindcodex.de/de/startseite

Buchempfehlung von Eva: Wie das Gehirn die Seele macht von Gerhard Roth

117: Founder & CEO, ANWOW | Executive Assistant | Microsoft Office Specialist Expert | Trainer

Lizebeth Koloko-Green stands at the forefront of modern work methodologies as the CEO and Founder of ANWOW (Adopt New Ways of Working). She navigates through the intricate IT realm with over two decades of international corporate experience, including notable tenures at Symantec France and Areda Computer Systems. Beyond leadership, Lizebeth excels as an Executive Assistant at Nutanix France and a Productivity Coach at Storyals, merging her vast expertise into these roles.

A distinguished graduate of ESSEC Business School with a Master's Degree in Management and Operations, Lizebeth also holds a degree from the Académie de Versailles in Office Management. Her prowess extends as a Microsoft Office Specialist Expert, making her a maestro in Microsoft 365 Apps. Fluent in both French and English, she bridges cultural and technological divides.

Lizebeth's zeal for IT transcends her corporate roles. Her dedication to IT education has propelled her into freelancing as a Corporate IT Trainer; she passionately educates on Microsoft applications, catering to a diverse audience, including Executives, Sales Teams, and Administrative Professionals. Her insights are highly sought after, and she is a respected speaker at various administrative events and conferences.

A revered member of IMA France and PANSA networks and a representative for France at the World Administrators Summit in 2018, 2021, and 2022, Lizebeth's influence permeates through global platforms.

Born in Paris but raised in Fremont, California, Lizebeth now calls Paris home, where she lives with her daughter, Aaliyah. A lifelong learner, she's currently immersed in studying German and Mandarin, reflecting her love for languages and technology.

LinkedIn Profiles: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizkoloko https://www.linkedin.com/in/anwow

More about ANWOW: http://www.anwow.com/

116: Simone is a multi-award-winning specialist, who works to increase the impact of internal employee resource groups (ERGs), maximizing the visibility and opportunities of underrepresented groups to promote equitable inclusion.

Her advocacy focuses on empowering individuals and groups to know their worth, seek commonalities with others, eliminate 'blind' spots, and elevate all.

Simone has worked within administration for over two decades. Passion for administration motivated her to create an internal network for over 500 administrative professionals at the world's largest asset manager, alongside creating and implementing transparent, equitable career paths for the administrative population. She is a leading voice advocating for the profession.

Simone highlights the need for the administrative profession to be more diverse in terms of gender, ethnicity, and ability and to be strategically included by organisations when building DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) programs that often omit this group. Her ERG journey began first with women's networks and progressed to her own profession and those that reflect her various intersectionality's.

She is an international keynote speaker, author, mentor, and trainer and has appeared on numerous podcasts. She is a life fellow of the UK's only professional body for Administrative Professionals, EPAA, a lead on the Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging team for the World Administrators Alliance and an Advisory Board member for Practically Perfect PA.

Her work has been recognised and celebrated, being the recipient of the Unsung Hero of the Year by Women in Finance in 2021 and EA/PA of the year by WeAreTheCity in 2016.

Links:

Article: https://executivesupportmagazine.com/the-need-for-inclusion/

Connect with Simone on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/simone-white-sim-plicity

115: Carmela Schuler ist Retailkind, Dienstleisterin, Vertrauensperson, Gastgeberin, Botschafterin und Kommunikatorin.

Nach einer kaufmännischen Ausbildung hat sie ihre Weiterbildungen und folglich ihren beruflichen Weg im Marketing- & Kommunikationsbereich absolviert, wo sie 20 Jahre in leitenden Funktionen tätig war. Dazwischen wagte sie einen Abstecher in die Assistenz und sie wusste, dass sie diese Funktion irgendwann wieder wahrnehmen möchte.

Seit dem 1. Dezember 2020 ist Carmela Schuler Assistentin des CEO der Migros Fachmarkt AG (mit den Brands Do it + Garden, Melectronics, Micasa, SportX und Bike World), wo sie zusätzlich für die Unternehmens-Kommunikation der Migros Fachmärkte verantwortlich zeichnet.

Sie ist 45 Jahre alt, verheiratet und hat 2 Kinder. Auf ihrem LinkedIn Profil beschreibt sie sich so:

In 5 Worten beschrieben: empathisch, authentisch, kommunikativ, selbstbestimmt und durchsetzungsstark.

Link zu Carmela: https://ch.linkedin.com/in/carmela-schuler-201a01101

114: I trust you enjoyed my podcast with Helen from 2022. This time she came over in her role as WA-Alliance Chair to speak of the current status of the work of the alliance, the upcoming summit and most importantly the new Global Skills Matrix Survey. Make sure you have a voice and check out the survey.

Links:

WA-Alliance Council Vacancies: https://wa-alliance.com/home/wa-alliance-council-elections/

Subscribe to the WA-Alliance Monthly Newsletter: https://wa-summit.com/#grouped

Global Skills Matrix Survey: https://forms.microsoft.com/e/dRNr1hhEJp

Global Skills Matrix: https://globalskillsmatrix.com/

Founder & CEO: Douglas R. Conant

Douglas R. Conant is an internationally renowned business leader, New York Times bestselling author, keynote speaker, and social media influencer with over 40 years of leadership experience at world-class global companies. For the past 20 years of his leadership journey, he has honed his leadership craft at the most senior levels—first as President of the Nabisco Foods Company, then as CEO of Campbell Soup Company (https://conantleadership.com/the-campbell-soup-story/), and finally as Chairman of Avon Products. In 2011, he founded ConantLeadership—a mission-driven community of leaders and learners who are championing leadership that works in the 21st century. Today, Doug, among his other board commitments, also serves as Chairman of CECP (http://cecp.co/about/) and as Chairman of the Higher Ambition (https://www.higherambition.org/) Leadership Alliance. Learn more about Doug here: https://conantleadership.com/about/doug-conant/

Chief of Staff: Mara Katsikis

Mara is an enthusiastic developer of people and a seasoned leader of high-performing small business teams. She delights in helping contributors to grow their skill sets and thrive in a fiercely complex marketplace. With a background in negotiation, public relations, business development, human resources, and training and development, she is the perfect "Jack(ie) of all trades" to steward the small but hearty leadership team to ongoing growth. She is responsible for contributing to the management of all organizational operations including strategic planning, board of director work, finances, marketing, speaking engagements, publishing efforts and the advancement of a substantial not-for-profit agenda.

Executive Administrator: Diana Hansen

Diana is so essential to the day-to-day operations at ConantLeadership that she has earned the alternate job titles of "Chief Logistical Officer," "Right-Hand-Woman," and "Planning Goddess," depending on the scheduling, business, and administrative challenges of the day. With a long career supporting executives at the highest levels of Fortune 500 companies, Diana is tenacious, detail-obsessed, creative, whip-smart, and clairvoyant. She anticipates and addresses what is needed to support and advance the operations of the enterprise oftentimes before the company (or even CEO) is aware. It's no surprise that her professional excellence has been recognized throughout the industry: She is a distinguished winner of the 2022 Admin Awards (https://www.adminawards.com/philadelphia/#winners), the highest honor in the administrative profession.

Save the date:

2 Day Virtual Boot Camp (Nov 8 & 10, 2023): https://conantleadership.com/bootcamp/

Free Summit (Sept 25-29, 2023): https://start.conantleadership.com/blueprint-leadership-summit/

112: Brian Daniel is the founder of The Celebrity Personal Assistant Network, a headhunting firm for celebrities, high-net-worth families, and billionaires. As a former personal assistant, chief of staff, and confidant to some of the world's wealthiest families, Brian knows firsthand what it takes to make it in the private service industry.

Since its inception, http://FindCelebrityJobs.com has been featured in dozens of high-profile media outlets worldwide and has been visited tens of millions of times. In addition to household staffing, CPAN also offers resources for those in private service, including but not limited to career coaching and B2B consulting for small business owners in the luxury markets.

Links:

www.findcelebrityjobs.com

www.linkedin.com/in/headhunter3/

111: Karin Hélène is Head of the Director General's Office of the European Spallation Source (ESS), a European intergovernmental research facility under construction in Lund, Sweden. ESS will probe materials and processes down to the atomic scale using beams of neutrons, with a wide range of applications from engineering to energy to the life sciences.

Karin is Swedish and has an extensive international background, having lived, studied and worked during a period of almost 20 years in the United States, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Thailand. She started her career as Executive Assistant in 1987 in Saudi Arabia and has worked within the private sector, the Swedish government and for non-profit organisations. She has worked at ESS since 2011.

Karin was nominated and runner up for the Swedish Office Professionals Award in 2014, she believes in life-long-learning and is constantly looking for opportunities to develop her role, her most recent training focusing on the role of Chief-of-Staff and Management.

Karin Hélène is the former Chair of International Management Assistants (IMA) in Southern Sweden and member of the Swedish National Board. Since 2020 she is a member of IMA Global Executive Committee where her role is Executive Governance Officer. Since 2018 she has represented Sweden at the World Administrators Summit.

2015 she founded an internal network for assistants and support personnel at ESS and since a few years she is a mentor for students of the 'certified Executive Business Assistant' education.

Connect with Karin:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karin-hélène

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Karin_EFH

European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS): https://europeanspallationsource.se/

International Management Assistant (IMA): https://www.ima-network.org/

World Administrator Summit: https://wa-alliance.com/home/world-administrators-summit/

110: Florian Sandmann-Reetz - Der Microsoft Office 365 Experte

Seine Begeisterung steckt an! Florian liebt es zu unterrichten – und das seit mittlerweile mehr als 20 Jahren. Als Gründer, Geschäftsführer und Lead-Trainer hat er aus einem kleinen Ein-Mann-Betrieb eine der erfolgreichsten Schulungsagenturen für Office-Anwendungen in Deutschland gemacht.

Der Softwarespezialist kennt sämtliche Tipps und Tricks rund um das Microsoft-365-Paket. Aber nicht nur das: Wie kein Zweiter schafft er es, Outlook, Excel oder Microsoft Teams so interessant zu erklären, dass du bei ihm innerhalb von nur einer Stunde mehr lernst, als sonst in einer Woche.

Unglaubliche 1.500 Seminare mit über 3.000 Schulungstagen und mehr als 12.000 Teilnehmern gehen so mittlerweile auf sein Konto. Sein Geheimnis: Spannende Vorträge, Online-Kurse und Unternehmens-Schulungen, die abholen, begeistern und nachhaltig befähigen.

Mareike Eller - Seminarkoordinatorin

Mareike ist das Herzstück des ArtReich.

Mittlerweile ist sie seit 6 Jahren das BackOffice von Florian und hält ihm den Rücken frei.

Sie ist für alle Kunden, ihre Anliegen und auch intern der Ansprechpartner.

Mit dem Wachstum kommen immer mehr Aufgabengebiete dazu und mittlerweile vergrößert sich das Team und auch im Onboarding Prozess ist sie federführend.

Annika Furcht - Social Media Managerin

Annika hat die Übersicht über alle Plattformen und ist die Schnittstelle zwischen Florian und seinen Followern.

Sie behält den Überblick bei der gesamten Social Media Planung, Deadlines und den Kommentarspalten.

Seit mittlerweile 3 Jahren ist sie ein fester Bestandteil des Teams und der Aufgabenbereich wird immer größer.

Wichtig: Florian sucht eine persönliche Assistenz. Bitte Bewerbungen und Fragen an diese E-Mail richten: [email protected].

Links:

https://artreich.de/

https://sandmann-reetz.de/

linkedin.com/in/sandmann365

linkedin.com/in/annika-furcht-artreich

linkedin.com/in/mareike-eller-11b019213

109: Born in Rhodesia, departed Zimbabwe and settled in South Africa in 1981. From Secretarial Studies to Police Woman during the Rhodesian Bush War, Atrayah became the Personal Secretary to an executive in the travel sector, thereafter relocating to South Africa.

From admin & fitness instructor to PA & Campaign Manager to a Member of Parliament during the 1989 General Elections leading up to the release of Nelson Mandela from Robben Island, she has worked as a radio presenter; facilitated corporate workshops in Emotional Intelligence; lived in the UK as a PA Carer to high profile individuals before becoming Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Personal Assistant in January 2015.

Atrayah has been a single parent to her two children since 1993 now aged 31 & 33.

In 2009, Atrayah joined her daughter as a model with 20 Model Management here in Cape Town.

Connect with Atrayah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atrayah-janhe-26736921/