Executive Assistants never seem to rest, let alone take time away from work to focus on themselves.
That’s why these Executive Assistant conferences are perfect for all those powerhouses who love to work eight days a week.
Why are these events perfect for motivated assistants?
These Executive Assistant conferences:
- Let Executive Assistants take a breath without taking a break
- Nurture skills that are fiercely practical and relevant
- Provide headspace for strategic thinking
- Bring EA together to share seasoned strategies
This no-fluff in-person and virtual conferences are catered specifically to the needs of Executive Assistants. They pack comprehensive instruction into reasonable time frames and send you home eager to put your new ideas into action.
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We hope you attend at least one (or all) of these can’t-miss conferences this year.
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1. Executive Assistants Ignite
Conference Organizer: ASAP
Location and Date: Dana Point, California May 17 – 19, 2022
ASAP has designed this new conference specifically for senior-level executive assistants and administrative professionals looking to grow in their roles.
EA Ignite offers masterclass sessions that are focused on evolving your technology, leadership, and project management skills. Structured in a variety of styles throughout the conference, the program encourages you to engage and then reflect on your learnings.
This is an exclusive opportunity to learn with peers who strive to excel and create efficiency in their careers. It’s the precision training conference for all executive assistants looking to move their careers forward.
Tip: EA Ignite is limited to 300 attendees to maintain close-knit sessions and thoughtful discussions, so register today before it sells out!
2. IAAP Summit
Conference Organizer: International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP)
Location: Nashville, TN
Hosted by seasoned experts at the International Association of Administrative Professionals, this summit is all about growth.
The planners understand the demanding role of an administrative professional and use that knowledge to design a conference to keep attendees at the forefront of both foundational and new skills. The comprehensive program will help you stay marketable, relevant, and ready for anything that comes up in your day-to-day work and long-term career.
Speakers include Shola Richards, CEO of Go Together Global™, and Julia Kristina, a master therapist and life coach.
Agenda highlights:
Here’s a sneak peek of some of the session titles you’ll enjoy during this summit:
- Stress and the Art of Accelerated Resilience Adapt Faster and Achieve More Workshop
- Career Acceleration: Speed Up Your Success with Strategic Personal Branding Workshop
3. Be the Ultimate Assistant 2-Day Workshops
Conference Organizer: Bonnie Low-Kramen
Locations and Dates: Multiple Dates
This workshop’s title tells you exactly what you’re going to get from it: the tools to be the ultimate assistant. This holistic 17-hour workshop helps Executive Assistants sharpen every tool in the arsenal—ethics, organization, communication, event planning, and so much more.
One of the program’s developers is Bonnie Low-Kramen, who, as a former assistant to Olympia Dukakis, knows how to keep up with a demanding, high-profile workload. Bonnie’s partner is Vickie Sokol Evans, a globally recognized expert on practical real-world tech skills.
Bonus: Workshop registration includes a bit of post-meeting coaching with the two prolific program planners, Bonnie Low-Kramen and Vickie Sokol Evans.
4. 8th Annual Global Executive Assistant Summit
Conference Organizer: Vonlanthen
Locations and Dates: Lisbon, Portugal June 29 – 30, 2022
This summit allows you to become a part of their fantastic administrative professionals’ community. Executive assistants meet annually to reconnect, collaborate, share their success, and learn about the latest trends. Face the 2022 industry challenges with your peers. Enjoy the customized content that meets the requirements of this demanding profession. They are looking forward to seeing you face to face in June.
Executive assistants are the linchpins of their organizations, ensuring that everything is done correctly and on time. Take up the opportunity to surround yourself with qualified professionals dealing with some of the same career challenges as you. Learn how to become even more efficient and vital to your executive.
5. Executive Leadership Support Forum
Conference Organizer: Executive Leadership Support
Location: Multiple Locations
Dates: Multiple Dates
This forum has a mission that’s sure to resonate with Executive Assistants everywhere:
“The Executive Leadership Support Forum Series strives to improve the profile and professional lives of Executive Assistants worldwide by welcoming those with a thirst for knowledge, desire to make new connections, and a passion for career advancement.”
The forum focuses on hard skills, but it also dives deep into what assistants need on a personal level to achieve their visions of success. These needs include self-reflection and confidence.
Buzz: Check out this video of Executive Assistant Rosy Garner talking about the skills she can’t wait to share with her peers:
Bonus: The conference is posting speaker interviews to get attendees excited about expert presenters. Check out this Q&A with Al-Husein, Senior Consultant Coach at The Duncan Group.
6. The Indispensable Assistant
Conference Organizer: SkillPath
Location: Multiple Locations
Dates: Multiple Dates
Who doesn’t want to be indispensable?
During this one-day workshop, Executive Assistants will absorb skills that don’t come from a book or an informative article, including stress-management strategies, assertiveness skills, and delegation techniques.
Here are a few sample learning points taken straight from the Indispensable Assistant agenda:
- Dealing with correspondence—shortcuts you and your boss can work out together
- Parkinson’s Law—reclaim wasted time by applying its universal lessons
- Concrete ideas for smoothing and improving your partnership with your boss
Tip: Visit the conference landing page, scroll over to the right, and search for workshop dates in your city.
7. Admingling Event Series
Conference Organizer: OfficeNinjas
Location: Multiple Locations
Dates: Multiple Dates
These customized, compact, after-work events happen in cities across the United States, and the OfficeNinja team takes a unique planning approach to make sure every attendee gets everything they need and want from the events.
The team works with attendees to pick the perfect location and takes the time to learn what attendees want to talk about.
When the event time comes, you simply show up to a place you know and love for drinks, snacks, and immersive discussions about your work. If you’ve ever craved a venue for asking your most burning Executive Assistant questions, then these events are for you!
Buzz: In just two minutes, this video will give you an idea of exactly what you’re getting when you attend an Admingling event.
8. Executive Secretary Live
Conference Organizer: Executive Secretary Magazine
Locations and Dates:
- Global: June 22-23, 2022
- London: July 8-9, 2022
- Seattle: December 2022
We love this international event’s tagline:
“Train Like The CEO You Support”
That’s good advice, don’t you think? High-level leaders are constantly evolving and absorbing new skills; there’s no reason their equally talented assistants shouldn’t do the same.
The planners of Executive Secretary Live acknowledge that many Executive Assistants are asked to perform a complex functions without any training.
This conference offers two days of practical training that helps Executive Assistants polish their existing skills and pick up new ones to fill in any holes. Assistants leave feeling well-rounded, confident, and poised to take on their building workloads.
Buzz: Marie Claire writer Caroline Garland shares what she learned from spending a day at London’s Executive Secretary Live event in this Career Advice From the World’s Super PAs.
9. APC Executive Assistants Summit
Conference Organizer: American Society of Administrative Professionals (ASAP)
Location: Orlando, FL
Dates: September 11 – 14, 2022
Designed for go-getters serving high-powered positions, the APC Executive Assistants Summit inspires attendees to roll up their sleeves for days of rigorous, high-level training that achieves results. In 2021, the APC EA Summit went virtual and had over 1,000 attendees!
The customized program nurtures leadership, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills—and that’s just the shortlist. The organizers understand being an administrative professional is more than a job. It’s a profession.
Looking for something new ASAP? Check out EA Ignite! This is an exclusive opportunity to learn with senior-level administrative professionals who strive to excel and create efficiency in their careers.
Buzz: Just visit the summit’s Benefits of Attending page to read comments like this one from Sharon Adderley, Executive Assistant, Office of the VP and CIO Commonwealth Bank:
“The EA Summit at the Administrative Professionals Conference was the best Conference that I ever attended. This was my first time to this event, and it was awesome!”
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Bonus: FranklinCovey On Leadership World Tour
Conference Organizer: FranklinCovey
Location: Multiple Locations
Dates: Multiple Dates
While many other conferences on this list dive deep into specific Executive Assistant skills, the On Leadership World Tour promotes universally beneficial leadership skills.
Executive Assistants may serve leaders, but they’re also leaders themselves. And the more leader-centric traits they develop, the more they’ll be able to take off the plates of their high-powered bosses.
This one-day event examines the qualities of amazing leaders and inspires attendees to cultivate desirable soft skills, from character traits to habits.
The event also features a preview of FranklinCovey’s brand-new tool, The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership.
Fun Fact: Half of the host company’s name comes from Stephen Covey, beloved author of the ubiquitously quoted The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
